Help in the Hardest Art of Neville Goddard's Technique

I think the hardest part of causation by imagination is taking control of the imagination and making it imagine what you want "without effort." Another difficulty for many in bad circumstances is imagining the alternative they desire: A) you have a rotten life; and B) you cannot imagine a happy life. This is especially apparent when you are dealing with a rotten son-of-a-*****, or just a flat-out negative person, whom you cannot for the life of you think of as being positive.

How do you think of a complete cretin, an insulting, negative naysayer and a contrarian, as being pleasant, a friend, an asset, and an ally?

I think you might try thinking of someone positive and encouraging, and putting your problem person(s) into that positive person's role. After I discovered the appearance and character of Emile Coué (he looked like this: http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/emile-coue?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=emile%20coue, and his method was like this: http://www.artleidecker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Coue_My_Method_12-20-99.pdf) (you have to scroll down), I found it easy to imagine him enthusiastically encouraging people.

I find it much easier to think of Coué with his bright, bubbly, enthusiastic personality encouraging myself and others, and then imagine that demeanor in my friend who has been anything but that with me. Now I have a saint who was an ass (I remember when) uplifting and boosting me. "You can! You have! Isn't this wonderful?!" he/she positively, encouragingly exudes. Look at us dancing around for joy. Whee!

Probably the Hardest Part of Neville Goddard's Technique is Taking Control of Your Imagination.

Causation's hardest part: taking control of your imagination. You need to be able to see as concrete a state that is imaginary. Not necessarily see it, but experience something of it as real, that you can believe -- e.g., the smell of a rose, the feel of a baseball, the hearing of a remark, etc. To do this, you have to take control of your imagination and make it create the state without effort. Think praise and thanksgiving. This is real creation: not the making of matter, but the making of mind. Mind has control over matter, so if you can make your mind, mind will make your world.

Books on Meditation

I looked for years for these books before they were written. Now, I find they have been written. You can read the introductions at Google Books (https://books.google.com/), if you are interested. Just search "Yoel Glick." In them he discusses how to meditate in the Silence.

I HAVE NOT READ THEM YET, BUT PLAN TO. AT THIS POINT, I ONLY WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THEY EXIST.

Living the Life of Jewish Meditation: A Comprehensive Guide to Practice and Experience. Paperback – October 1, 2014.

by Rabbi Yoel Glick (Author).
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Woodstock, VT, USA: Jewish Lights; 1st edition (October 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580238025
ISBN-13: 978-1580238021
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds

Here's the other one:

Walking the Path of the Jewish Mystic: How to Expand Your Awareness and Transform Your Life. Paperback – September 15, 2015.

by Rabbi Yoel Glick (Author)
ISBN-13: 978-1580238434 ISBN-10: 1580238432 Edition: 1st

Again, just search the Rabbi's name to read the introductions at https://books.google.com/

The Elder Serves the Younger

I mentioned that matter, the elder, serves consciousness, which is younger. The distinction between the physical and mind is symbolized by Cain slaying Abel, Noah and the world, Esau and Jacob, Sarah and Hagar, Israel and Egypt, etc., etc.

I just noticed another one. In Genesis, God sends Abraham forth from Haran AS AN ASSYRIAN. The Creator God of the Assyrians is Ashur, whom I regard as the Ineffable's imagination or the universal field of consciousness. Moses in EGYPT gets interested in Jethro, the goodness and abundance of God, and God says to him, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh" (Exodus 3:14 from the ancient Aramaic, per Alexander), in effect: "Matter is serving consciousness like the (Aramaic speaking) ASSYRIANS believe." I.e., that's the way to go.

This is a big hint as to how to understand and interpret the scriptures. In Galatians, Peter plays the hypocrite by having lived "Aramaicly," "according to the Aramaic scriptures," and then in the presence of Jews, according to the Jewish ritual laws. "According to the scriptures," then, was in recognition of the oneness we all share in God as the Ineffable's imagination. In Exodus 3:14, God was saying, again in effect: "I am all of it." THAT is the way to be "Aramaic."

R. H. Jarret's "It Works!": The Law of Assumption in Positive Affirmations

In the conclusion of It Works, the little red book that makes your dreams come true, Jarret mentions without explanation Dr. Émile Coué. At the moment, in 1926, Coué and his particular method of psychological treatment were very famous, and everyone knew what was meant. Dr. Coué practiced suggestion and autosuggestion -- the inducement of deeply believed positive affirmations -- to heal people.

That is the conclusion of It Works. Jarret turned Coué's practice into a semi-religious tract, "a concise, definite, resultful plan with rules, explanations, and suggestions for bettering your condition in life." In it, he addresses "the endless stream of expressions . . . thoughtless talkers" make, which leads to failure. He offers a way to success very similar to Coué's technique.

Success, he says, is given (literally, worked out) by the omnipotent Power within us, and all we have to do to get success is to form a perfect connection with this Power. Jarret calls the Power "Emmanuel," which means, literally, "within us is Eil." I APPLY THIS SITUATION TO JARRET'S DISCUSSION.

Eil is the Shaddai, the Almighty Provider (in Hebrew compound names with Eil and Yah and a verb, like 'Emmanuel,' God is the doer of the verb -- says Bullinger). Shaddai, by the way, is Hebrew for breasts. "Come and drink!" says Eil. Can't get friendlier than tat (I told you the world is imagic). It Works is a short booklet of only about twenty-four small pages. I think it reads quite differently if you read it with 'Eil' as the Power and the faith of having received as the operation of affirmation.

E.g., on page three he says, "If you KNOW what you WANT you can HAVE IT!" I read that as "If you KNOW what you WANT, you must believe that you HAVE IT!"

I read page six, "They are not aware of the power of Eil, so near it is overlooked; so simple in operation of faith -- affirmations of assumption -- that it is difficult to conceive, and so sure in results that it is not made use of consciously, nor recognized as the cause of either success or failure."

There is nothing wrong with this: ". . . first of all you must know exactly what you want, and this is no easy task. When you can train your objective mind (the one you use everyday) to decide definitely upon the things or conditions you desire, you will have taken the first step in accomplishing or securing what you know you want" (page nine). But Jarret almost loses me in the next paragraph about radio. Radio was a pretty new thing in the 1920's, but explaining how radios work takes us off track. I read it: "To get what you want is no more mysterious or uncertain than the radio waves all around you. Tune in correctly to your HAVING what you desire, and you get a perfect result. Assume that you HAVE what you want, and affirm that.

On page ten, Jarret introduces the concept of Eil as the subconscious mind. He calls it the subjective mind (following Dr. Thomas Jay Hudson), but makes clear that he is referring to omnipotent God Eil within us as the subconscious mind. Again, Emmanuel literally means "with(in) us is Eil." "Regardless of the name of this Great Power, Eil, or the conscious admission of him, Eil, the subconscious mind, is capable and willing to carry to a complete and perfect conclusion every earnest desire of your objective mind, but you must be in real earnest (obsessive intent) about what you want.

Here is where the rubber meets the road (page eleven): "Occasional wishing or half-hearted wanting does not form a perfect connection or communication -- which is what is needed -- with your subconscious mind, the omnipotent Eil. It is left wondering, what the heck do you want? You must be in earnest: truthfully and sincerely desiring the certain conditions or things -- mental, physical, or spiritual -- that you want. I.e., you are going for it, and believe that you can get it. If you merely WISH for things, there is no connection of faith, and Eil within you does not perform for faithlessness."

God gives us the desires of our hearts (Psalm 37:4), and by that I mean the actual desire. We want to get that desire perfectly clear and retransmit it, if you would, perfectly clearly as God to our subconscious mind. This is the forming of a perfect connection with our Omnipotent Power, Eil. The clearer the connection, the quicker and better the manifestation.

Coué developed a method which relied on the principle that any idea exclusively occupying the mind turns into reality, although only to the extent that the idea is within the realm of possibility (Wikipedia, emphasis mine).

Jarret's plan is to write down what you definitely, earnestly desire, and schedule sessions of reading and thinking about the list throughout the day. I think he means to affirm our having those things: "I have! I can!" as Dr. Coué would direct. I read page fourteen, "There is no need to analyze how Eil is going to accomplish your desires. What is essential is that you believe that you HAVE what you desire -- that it is not coming, but has already been received in your PAST. You affirm your dealing with its established existence, which you assume." God is not going to call you a liar for believing him.

"Omnipotent Eil within you does not enter into any controversial argument, but your objective mind is so susceptible to suggestion that it is almost impossible to make satisfactory progress when surrounded by skeptics. Therefore, choose your friends carefully and associate with vibrant, lively, positive people who now have some of the things you really want, but do not discuss your method of attainment with them."

A word on the Law of Attraction, which I do not believe (it is a sham of the Law of Assumption, which is the real thing going on). It proposes that by increasing your mental/spiritual frequency/vibration, you will attract good things to yourself like a magnet. It doesn't work that way. By assuming yourself to be the good stuff, to be part and parcel of it, amongst and common to it, you become it. It is like becoming one of the atoms IN the magnet. We are part of a becoming God, the "Ineffable," and we are right to be pursuing Its manifestation.

Rosh Hashana, Sunset, and Our Binding as Isaac

The year starts at the beginning of fall. This equates to day starting at moment of sunset. This is associated with the creation of Adam and the binding of Isaac, which for us were the same thing. We are the laughter which at the Beginning of the universe fell into a bound state on the mount (mind) to be sacrificed as flames. That was sunset for us as we entered amnesia. Lucky for us, God provides himself in the actual burning.

Well, that is us, too. The Original Mind is here with us playing in the background. It is hard to eliminate the sense of separation of ourselves and it, but that is what we are here for.

The Enbloomed Anointing of the Original Mind Through Teaching

The Pentateuch, in the Book of Exodus (Liberation), opens with Moses. The Gospels of Jesus Christ start with John. These two were teachers. Let's throw in Paul and Peter, two other teachers, and the prophets. Teachers, specifically learning from teachers, is the way we get the anointing which opens us up to the fact that we are Jesus Christ, YHWH -- God the Father.

I take for my text the Season of Grace (the actual, historic event). Jeremiah and Daniel said it was coming, how long it would last, and when it would begin and end. And, for that matter, what it would accomplish. Cyrus was God's anointed to begin it. Seventy sevens (weeks of years) of grace would follow (and they did), culminating in an anointing, a Messiah. Many in early first century Palestine, knowing that the culmination was approaching, withdrew to serious study and discipline, to prepare themselves for what God was about to do.

Witness that we see and experience an old world, which is the basis of our worldview. Learning to read the Bible perceptively presents us with a radically different world. This old world is still working, we are in it, but we see that something else -- radically different-- is going on. We get the seeing from the teaching. And lo and behold, the "something else" that is going on becomes real and active to us. It did for them.

I believe in Jesus Christ, but I understand him differently than most. Jesus Christ is YHWH ("Jehovah") acting in man, perceptively and teaching (sorry about the grammar). Teaching, specifically learning from teaching, takes us higher. Moses and John were good teachers; God is, too.

But for all the teaching, God is after learners. God was presenting a sign during the Season of Grace; there was a special emphasis upon the learners. They became especially perceptive and good teachers. They performed miracles, prophesied, and countered the religious ritualists and hypocrites. They were "Jesus Christ." From a distance they appear to be just one man, but up close, "he" is multitudes. He is also a reality, a spiritual reality whose anointing can enbloom in us as we join him -- and them -- through learing what is taught in the scriptures, believing what it says, and receiving the "something else's" reality and activity.

That reality is the original mind within us. That is YHWH, or Elohim, or Ashur, the Imagination of the Ineffable, Allaha, or whatever else you want to call it. God. Consciousness. The Ineffable is dreaming each of us, and to become more like the dreamer (the Ineffable), the "Man" Jesus Christ -- all of us -- left the awareness that we had and became unaware, "crucified" upon these human bodies. The story in the Bible is the story about what had happened from the foundation of the world. Jesus Christ truly died for the sins of the world when we became us.

So we have the original mind within us, but we are unaware of it. Learning from good teachers enblooms the anointing God would have us have to open our awareness like the examples we have in the Season of Grace, to make us perceptive and good teachers ourselves. Noble, gracious, patient, benevolent, loving, kind, helpful -- all the good stuff. And teaching not history and ritual and dogma, but the "something else," and how to exercise faith in assumption as prayer. This is living "Aramaicly," according to the scriptures.

It is for this reason I consider myself to be a former Western Christian, and now a member of the Ancient Aramaic Church, the Church built not with hands. (Even in this I am on the heretical fringe, for Victor Alexander does not yet buy into my spread-out Jesus theory). Wherever and whatever you are, seek to learn to live "Aramaicly," and receive that anointing.

Just a Silly Fantasy That Occurs to Me Regarding Eternal Return

If we keep coming back to the same lives and doing each do-over better, so does everyone else in prior history. Moses writes better, prophets prophesy better, hearers obey better, students learn better, preachers preach better, politicians politic better, etc. Next life my Bible is better, messages are clearer, I learn better, world is better. I know it isn't working out that way,

or is it?

Return as Twenty-Something: Will Researches And Ruminates Revision

A heavy-duty reader named Will left some comments on my post, Restored to Life as Twenty-something Without a Childhood? I Think Not, February 01, 2017, which deserve their own post. A lot of people do not usually care to scroll down and read the misspelled silly, trollish comments and vitriol that one usually finds in comments sections. Will is on another level, as you will see. I didn't want you to miss it. In it I make a few edits and clarifying remarks.
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Hello, Dan,

(Quoting Neville) "[...] fully awake and aware of where I was and what I was doing, I visited Jack."

Here I think he was talking about an "OBE" (out-of-body-experience, or more like an "interdimensional experience"), and "fully awake and aware of where I was and what I was doing" means it wasn't a mere dream. This was his attempt to explain the experience to people who were not familiar whith the concept of OBE or lucid dreaming.

About the whole "being restored to life as a twenty-something", well, first, I don't remember reading him ever saying that there would be no childhood. Maybe twenty-something is the time when the restoration is complete, according to many (most?) spiritualist beliefs, the development of man is divided into seven-year periods, each marked by the appearence of a new power or quality. These periods are the birth and coming to completion of the etheric body at the age of seven years, marked by the second dentition, full incarnation of the astral or desire body at fourteen years, marked by puberty, while the mental body which completes the man doesn't come into full activity until the age of twenty-one (the full incarnation of "I").

Second, have you heard about the "Cheating the Ferryman" theory? Besides Anthony Peake's, there are more old works that touch on this topic, and I'm quite sure Neville was aquainted with them, like Ouspensky's A New Model of the Universe, J.W. Dunne's An Experiment with Time, and J. B. Priestley's Time Plays.


If you decide to take a more in-depth look at the concept of Eternal Return (I should've mentioned that along the Cheating the Ferryman theory), I think Anthony Peake's Is There Life After Death? is a good introduction, and for an introduction to Ouspensky's take on the subject there is his wonderful novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, if you don't mind that genre. For more heavy stuff, there are the works I've already mentioned plus Dunne's The Serial Universe.

Ah, and let me clarify something: I am not claiming to have completely understood what Neville was trying to say, or that I'm sure that Neville was certainly speaking about Eternal Return; I just think it's something to consider. Take a look (again?) at these really interesting passages from Neville's lecture Where Are You From?:

(After citing Eccl. 1:9-11 [KJV] [YLT]):

"Well, who would accept that! The conventional view completely denies it; it couldn't possibly be. He is telling me that I have a memory of my youth. I can't quite remember the moment of my physical birth. I vividly remember the moment of my spiritual birth. But he is telling me it has been - that I do know. And everyone here - without memory of that physical birth - they can't deny by observation of other people being born, that they, too, must have been born in a similar manner; so they say it has been. Now he tells me: that which has been done (which is my birth) is that which will be done. That I am moving towards that same thing on a wheel of recurrence, that same thing in this world of Caesar, and only divine mercy can redeem me from the wheel."

After telling the story of the woman who foresaw the assassination of John F. Kennedy:

"But everything is here and that bullet in the brain of Kennedy is part of the eternal structure of God's world, and God conceived it. And so is the one who pulled it [the trigger] - God conceived it. And that's a part to be played - and played over and over and over. And man can't quite see the garment, because it doesn't make sense, because he thinks it's here. It isn't here. This is forever, as the play."

"So when you go through it [trouble], know it has happened and happened and happened, but you have no memory. In some strange way, this lady in ten days, within one block - it so passed from memory that even when the radios began to blare and the TV, and even the weeping and cursing and talking, she is prodding herself to remember a dream. And only when the facts of a paper were placed before her and she saw the green page with the headline: KENNEDY SHOT did the whole thing run into her mind like some photographic plate. And she remembered the intersection where she saw these four papers on a rack, three the normal black and white, and the fourth one the green with this headline; then the struggle with herself as she crossed the intersection which only took two or three seconds. Then all of sudden it rushed into the mind."


"The Law - yes. I still say, within the framework of God's grand dream there is another dream - my dream, your dream. And these that have unnumbered experiences - we aren't going to change His dream for us, but we can modify and change within the framework of His dream the things that we will encounter. And if I use the Law wisely I will avoid repetition tomorrow when the wheel turns again. I won't break the foot the next time; I won't have the distorted arm the next time; I won't have anything the next time if now I revise it. So I say: if there is one thing I have been brought into this world to tell you, it is the secret of revision: that if something today is unpleasant, you don't like it, don't let it slip by.

The Bible speaks of redeeming the time. Every moment, if it is unpleasant, it should be redeemed, because you are going to meet it tomorrow as the wheel turns. So don't let the night descend and catch you with the unredeemed day. Take the day and redeem it. You may produce the results now, in the immediate present. But if you don't redeem it, when the wheel turns because you haven't yet hatched out (or as Blake says, For hatching ripe he breaks the shell,) - but if the shell isn't yet broken by the series of events which detaches you from this wheel of recurrence, then revise the day. So that next time when the wheel comes around you aren't going to relive the unpleasant thing of this moment in time."

"[...] But I can tell you - through the one thing I have brought to tell you, which is revision - it isn't hopeless. You can, if the day is unpleasant, revise it. And if tomorrow the results are not before you, and the next week and the next month, they are not before you, I know that by your revision you will change the events, when once again you must come to that moment in time. And so you will change the pattern, for the wheel is turning and you can't stop it."

"[...] You will change it only in one way; if you know the art of revision. But you will change it only to the extent when you reach that point in time - which is forever - you do not encounter (again) what to you was unpleasant. When you encounter that moment in time, it's the completed circle."


Well, I guess he didn't go into much detail about that subject in other lectures because he had already committed himself to teaching how to interpret the Bible properly, but he was on to something.

Till next time,
Will
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This is great mystery, Will, maybe the Great Mystery. Consciousness is the Ineffable's working Its way into manifestation. And this "consciousness" is Imagination, with a capital 'I'. That, the Imagination/Son/YHWH-action of the Ineffable, is "God" to us, and it is us. We are Its -- the Ineffable's -- Manifestation in potential being worked out, fixing our unlike-Him's bit by bit. Whether it is linear time or repeating cycles of the same time, but different, is an enchanting question. I AM NOT SURE IT MATTERS. What matters is that we focus on getting it right. Per Neville, we are the Father of the Christ, Milta or "Manifestation" of the Ineffable. I.e., we are the Imagination, the consciousness. Kind of heavy.

If we do not work enough out to graduate from this level, we are restored to this grave to try again. No limit to the do-overs. And there is wailing (as a baby?) and the gnashing of teeth (adulthood?). Maybe this life again, maybe not. There are a lot of could have, should have, would have's I'd like to change into did have's. Can have, in revision. Redeeming the time in this manner may be why Neville could say, "I am not coming back here again."

The High Cost of Practicing Assumption (LOA)

There is no free lunch. Even practicing the Law of Assumption has a high price. Deciding what you really want takes time. You can't just say, "I want to marry Harry, " or "I vant to be alone." You really have to figure out what it is that you do desire, what would be your salvation.

For instance, Harry is sovereign God also, so you can't just dictate his life. What you want is the delight, the security, the pride, and the love of marriage. And the right, happy husband. That takes minutes to figure out. Maybe an hour, if Harry is really cute. And you do not want to be alone. You are thinking about all the people buzzing around and interrupting your peace. Thinking about that will only get you more of the same -- vanting to be alone. You vant, er, want to enjoy the FEELING of quiet and solitude, peace and serenity. Wrap yourself up in that and you will have it, and enjoy it.

Furthermore, after you have decided upon what you really want, you have to determine what small action you must do, consequential to your receiving your desire, that signifies you HAVE received it. Breathing in the smells of fresh leather upholstery may get you rides in your best friend's a new car (he or she won't even know to thank you), but accepting the keys, receipt, and a handshake would get you your own. Remember the woman who wanted work: she got plenty of projects to help on, then realized that she really wanted PAY -- checks in hand along with all the appreciation. Neville imagined being home from the Army not on furlough, but to stay -- honorably discharged. You have to design the action to cover all you want to convey.

A routine expense may be the practice of reviewing your day to revise the hiccups and disappointments. If your life really sucks, this could entail revising everything. How do you do that before going to sleep? I think that if you select the one really big thing that went wrong and work on revising that, ending with the feeling of elation, "Isn't it wonderful!" the other things will get covered in the blanket of everything having gone right in the day.

And there is praying for others, too. Imagining better that the best for them, the ill healthy and the poor rich, the unemployed fully employed and the uncared for cared for -- praising and thanking God for his goodness and love -- takes time and energy. Especially if he anoints you to do what you desire of him.

What would it be like if you really were and really had what you want? Can you picture it? Sense it? Feel it? Can you enter that scene AS that person? I.e, you really him or her, really there, really enjoying it. Stay there. Look around. Enjoy it, and marvel. Nice to be there. Wonderful. And can you remember here? "Oh, yeah, I remember being him or her, the time when I wanted this. I'm just so glad to have it now, to be this now." Look at it now, be there, and remember when.

Not only this, you need to be faithful to what you have become and your new experience in spite of your continuing circumstances. Things take time to develop. You have to believe that they ARE, that YOU are.

All this costs much. It takes time and doing. You actually have to think, plan, design, and imagine. And manage your going to sleep. No, it doesn't cost any money; it is free for the doing, but you have to actually DO it. The only way to do it is to do it. It doesn't do itself.

PS: There is a much higher cost to NOT practicing the Law of Assumption.

The Practical Meaning of Genesis 25:23; Romans 9:12; and Malachi 1:1-5

"It is all evolution," she said, to spare her from any religious discussion. Religion? Who give a poop about religion? I am interested in the practical. Real stuff; real stuff of practical consequence. Let me grant that there is matter in the universe, at least as far as we can tell, and that consciousness has evolved from matter over its 13.8 billion-year life span. The one has become two, in effect. We have consciousness floating around kind of ethereally through the universe, and matter swinging around galaxies. Cool.

Okay. The question is practicality: can the little newbie consciousness affect its big brother component, matter? I say that Moses and the authors of the Bible say it can.

Genesis 25:22. And as the children pressed against each other inside her womb, she said, "If this is how it is going to be, what shall I live for?" And she went to ask the Lord. 23. And the Lord told her, "Two nations are in your belly,* and two nations will split off from your entrails, and motherland shall be alienated from motherland, and the greater shall submit to the smaller."

The greater submits to the smaller. Submits. This, of course, refers to birthright and blessing going to Jacob as opposed to Esau.

Romans 9:12. For it was said [in Scriptures,] "The elder shall become the servant of the younger." 13. As it is written, "I was merciful to Jacob and abhorred Esau."

The elder is Esau, matter. The younger is Jacob, consciousness.

In Galatians 4, well, here: 22. For it is written, Abraham had two sons, one from the mother and one from the emancipated. 23.Except the one who was born of the mother was of the flesh, however the one born from the emancipated was of the land. 24. These are then the two lines of the Covenant.* One that is from Mount Sinai, was born to serve, which is Haggar. 25. For Haggar is a mountain of Sinai, in Arabia, and Jerusalem [ended up following this line,] and performed this service together with its children. 26. That Jerusalem then, which we hold in high esteem, is our mother. "These are then the two lines of the Covenant." That is, THEY ARE ALLEGORY. If the grandparents are allegory, the grandchildren are, too.

'Jacob' is consciousness, and 'Esau' is matter. Jacob, or consciousness, becomes 'Israel': God ruling as man. And 'Esau,' matter, serves consciousness.

Malachi 1:1. A vision of the Lord's oracle regarding Israel (see above) by Malachi*. 2. "I have had mercy on you," said the Lord. And you say, "By what have you had mercy on us?" "What then, was not Esau (matter) the brother of Jacob," said the Lord, "that I had mercy upon Jacob but* denigrated Esau?" 3. "I made his mountains [a place of] toil and his inheritance into abodes of the wilderness." 4. And if the Edomites say that we have become impoverished, 'Let us go back and rebuild the ruins' -- thus said the Lord, "they shall build and I shall destroy." And they shall call them the dynasty of sin and the nation that the Lord shall be angry towards forever.* 5. And your eyes shall see, you then that say that the Lord shall rule above the territory of Israel.

*Lit. Aramaic word: "My angel."
*1:2 Lit. Ar. id.: "And."
*1:4 Lit. Ar. id.: "To the end of the universe."
*1:5 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "He shall be Lord."

Do yourself a favor and apply what Robert Young says about the future tense in ancient Hebrew: read it as the present tense. E.g., "YHWH (the action of consciousness) rules above the territory of Israel." I.e., Consciousness rules over matter. Matter is subject to consciousness. Matter serves consciousness.


As I read the Bible, this suggests to me that what I believe becomes manifest in my physical world. Matter takes the forms I desire of it. Well, that is if I desire what I want. I find that I all to often "desire" -- i.e., believe -- things I don't want at all. So to change my world, the most PRACTICAL thing I can do is to spend time in sessions desiring -- believing -- the things I really do want AS THOUGH I HAD THEM, for that is how we dictate to consciousness what to dictate to its servant, matter.
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Bible texts taken from Victor N. Alexander's translations of the Ancient Aramaic www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/. He offers the Old Testament texts he has translated in a single volume, but only the texts he has translated so far.

Practical Application of Evolved Consciousness

Does it really matter if in "evolution" consciousness evolved from matter, or matter evolved from consciousness? Either way, by scientific estimates they are both at least 13.8 BILLION years old. Consciousness is one (Deuteronomy 6:4), and matter is the same one. They work in concert. Whether you call consciousness awareness, imagination, wisdom, or intelligence, it contains the force of life for everything. It is God to us, so why should we bicker about whether it existed before or only since the Big Bang? We have enough to do just dealing with It! What does it know, what can it do, and most importantly, what can we do with it?

By all accounts, lots. Consciousness causes life itself. It conveys intelligence and abilities. It heals. It provides salvation. Isn't the Good News of the Bible, the "Gospel of Moses," that the consciousness which provides all goodness is directed by our imagination (Exodus 3:14 Alexander, interpreted by me)? How then, do we imagine to direct consciousness to provide the goodness we desire?

I would like to introduce you to the Season of Grace. This was the period of Israel's history between the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem and the destruction of the second temple, given by God as a sign to mankind. In this period the Jewish nation was destroyed; the Jews were carried away captive to Babylon; and they were persecuted. Returned to the land, they got serious about preparing themselves for the Anointing of the Holy Spirit.

No, I did not segue from the topic. The Captivity in Babylon taught the Jews to take God, the Law, and sin very seriously. If you want to be Israel, you have got to play the game. Near the end of the 490 year-long Season of Grace, the Jews recognized that the time for the anointing was drawing to a close. Many withdrew to monastery-like encampments to seek the purification of their character through disciplines and the teaching of righteous men, such as John the Baptist. When you read the story of the Antediluvian Patriarchs, it is the same thing -- getting right with God. And when Moses confronted Pharaoh and defeated the gods of Egypt, same-same (Egypt represents the pleasures of the flesh). Neville, for awhile, was an extreme ascetic. If you want to be Israel, you have got to play the game, and become righteous.

What does discipline, righteous teaching, and extreme asceticism buy you? Not a God-damned thing. Many of the Jews who withdrew to extreme legalism discovered this, and found that righteousness is by faith, by living "Aramaicly"; i.e., according to the Scriptures. They became the Anointing Manifest -- the Messiah. Moses in his time became, or at least understood, the rest that is Noah. The children of Israel got to leave the bondage of Egypt and head for the Promised Land. Neville got a ticket to Barbados, and returned a changed man.

My friend, leave Egypt, and go straight to faith and goodness. Be kind, fair, benevolent, and noble. And above all else, recognize your consciousness as "God." See? We are still right on track. Simply become devoted to the Golden Rule and Consciousness.

Where can we find Consciousness to be devoted to? Our subconscious. That is God acting in our lives (actually, as our lives), taking care of "me." Our subconscious is where we imagine to direct consciousness to goodness. It is to the subconscious we repent and turn from the the dictates of the flesh. We have to make the effort to speak to the subconscious, because we are seeking to change things. Therefore we need to converse and make our petitions IN ITS OWN LANGUAGE.

What is the language of the subconscious? Try sleep. "For once doth God speak, and twice, (he doth not behold it.) In a dream — a vision of night, in the falling of deep sleep on men, in slumberings on a bed. Then He uncovereth the ear of men, and for their instruction sealeth" (Job 33:14-16 Young's Literal Translation, emphasis mine).

Has anything ever been more ethereal and less material than dreams? God speaks to us in illustrations (our lives are our prime example). Words are a rarity. We want to establish a two-way conversation with the subconscious, so we need to approach sleep and speak in illustration as a language.

"Eh, speak in illustration? What is that?"

In a sleepy, drowsy state bordering on sleep, but while still in full control of your thoughts, show God exactly what you want by imagining it. In detail. Everything about it. Assume that you have it complete, and imagine what it would be like if it were true, what it would be like if you really had what you want and desire. Visualize everything about it. Feel everything about it. What you would see, what you would hear, what you would feel, what you would do, if it were already true? Get the real sense about it. Be there, we always say, thinking from it (because you are in it) with the sense-feeling that it is real and true.

Have that "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay! My oh my, what a wonderful day!" (Disney's Song of the South) feeling of thanks, praise, and gratitude to your subconscious for giving you what you desired. Find a small certain something which you must do subsequent to your receiving what you desire; something which indicates to you that you must have what you desired. Neville needed passage on a steamship. He knew that if he had it, he would have to climb the ship's gangplank with his family. When he was in the Army desiring a discharge, he knew he would have to be home in his apartment looking down at the streets of New York not having to return to the Army again. These small things he did over and over and over until they took on all the tones of being his real and present state of reality, and then he fell asleep in those states. His subconscious, the same consciousness common to all of us, heard.

Know exactly what it is that you want, and approaching sleep, allow the feeling of on-coming sleep float you up above the facts of this world which hold you back and deny that you have what you desire, that say, "You are not there; you do not have that world." Let sleepiness divide you from them like a rising tide raises a ship off the rocks it is aground on. Rise, and float away to your new world. Enter that stage as your real reality, as real as anything gets. What small action you would do there if it were true, do, and sense its reality. Share this repeating moment with your family and friends, or whomever is appropriate. Do this with joy and love, righteousness and appreciation. And fall asleep. Your subconscious will hear.

Faith is believing that what you have done in the inner person is what Consciousness will do for the outer person. You have said, 'effect,' and It will say, 'cause.' And cause It will. Remain loyal to the oncoming reality -- you are just about done with this world, and Ararat will soon appear.
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Excuse me, please, if I edit this soon.

Practicable Technique for Mrs. T: Observing and Unobserving

I listened the other night to some of Dr. Joseph Murphy's lecture on YouTube.com, Your Subconscious; Your Friend (Rare). He states quite clearly that if you convince your subconscious mind that you HAVE your desire, that by the law of inverse operation (Neville's law of reversibility) your subconscious mind will PRODUCE your desire.

And "How?" Mrs.T. asks, does one convince the subconscious of that?

Neville Goddard repeated often the need to think from the end. You have to know exactly what it is that you want, and enter the mental state of HAVING it. While you are in that state, you need to not think OF it but think FROM it. That is, the state of having has to become your PRESENT "real" reality. You put yourself there, right into the state you desire as if it was really where you ARE. For the moment, it IS! "You give it," he said, "all the tones of reality."

You do not think at all about wanting your desire to come, for how can you want to come what you already have? You imagine what you would do AFTER it has come because you DO have. If they accepted you, promoted you, paid you, or whatever, THEN what would you do? What would you see, hear, feel, etc., in the condition of having received it? You hear the congratulations, shake hands, say your thanks or whatever, and you keep on doing THAT until the imagined effect-state becomes your present reality. You really believe it, with praise and thanksgiving, which communicates it to the subconscious. Then the subconscious/God causes it.

Something cryptic in Neville's instructions is the bit about becoming the unconditioned awareness of being and falling into a sleepiness while still awake and floating above the facts of the world which deny that you have your desire. To this I apply what we learn from the double-slit tests, which imply that the powers beyond us become material when we observe them. If they have become the world I do not desire by my observation, I unobserve them. This does not make them unreal; it removes me from them. I don't really belong here, for I am "T. A. D." -- on temporary assigned duty -- serving on Noah's boat until my world arrives.

I think this is the gist of Neville's walking the streets of New York in November imagining he was on the balmy dirt paths of Barbados. You can't just step out in front of a taxi pretending it is a donkey, but you can deny its continuing influence upon your life. Isn't this what was meant by, "Deny yourself, and come, follow Me"? No wonder they tell you to not tell others what you are doing; they'll lock you up!

Napoleon Hill says in Think and Grow Rich (second page of chapter three), "Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith." This is a practice. You have to spend time in sessions DOING it. These are the standing orders of the Lord's Prayer: "Your name (nature) must be being hallowed; Your will must be being done; Your Kingdom must be being restored" (Fenton).

R. H. Jarret in IT WORKS! says to know exactly what it is that you want, and tune in to your HAVING it. Well, okay, that was me, but he meant it. Make a list of such "possessions" and schedule in your day sessions of reading the list. Think about these possessions frequently; obsess about the world you belong to. Be industrious and loyal toward it.

Much is said about not doing anything to achieve your desires, as the Ineffable Divine Intelligence is fully capable of producing them without your input. Much is also said about increasing your spiritual vibration to attract the things you desire to you. I call "BS" on the so-called Law of Attraction, for there is no wealth rolling down the street to any houses I know of. Iron filings do NOT have the same vibrational rate as the magnetized atoms in the magnet. The Law of Attraction works simply because it is the Law of Assumption renamed by people who do not want to admit there is a God with whom they are dealing and to whom they are accountable.

In implementing their "Law" they assume they have, and God does the rest. That's a "Hello, yes, I am really here," from him, but they don't want to hear it. As far as magnetization, that is a cool concept, but it isn't like a magnet attracting things to it. It is like being one of the atoms IN the magnet. THEY have a charge, a liveliness and an order to them. You, in increasing your vibrational rate, become associated with that like order of life. You are not a slug anymore. You take on vibrancy, vivaciousness, liveliness, go-gettingness. Things are not a chore, you don't mind the things that used to bother you, you are industrious, a "live-wire." Your positive mental attitude endears you to people, and you naturally become associated less with slugs and more with people of like disposition -- similar "atoms" of the magnet. You are transplanted into that world. The wealthy and successful have active, positive lives. Neville pursued his knowledge seven days a week. Hello, New Magnet World.

What would that new world be like? Assuming your nobility and acceptance in that world, what one small action or expression would signify that the whole of it exists for you? Neville wanted passage on a steamship. In the sleepy state bordering sleep, but still having complete control of his thoughts, he revised his past to his having the tickets for the passage, and consequently climbing the gangplank onto the ship with his family. And that action he repeated until it took on all the tones of reality. The garment manufacturer who wanted payments due him, revised his past into having received the payments -- fully believing they had been paid, and wrote thank you notes to his clients. Then he received the payments and could send out the notes. The woman estranged from her son's wife and son revised her past and read imagined letters that had arrived from them. This she did faithfully (it is a practice!), and then the letters arrived and the estrangement was over.

The same can be achieved by remembering this past in the future that is desired. I have to admit this is a weird one for me. I put myself into the future state as though it were my present, and "remember" the "past" I am presently in. Maybe I want to be an Air Force officer, and clearly BEING one in my imagined but very much believed reality, I remember when I was sitting at home dreaming of it.

Tune into the state of having what you want, and choose to serve the state you mentally observe. Convince your subconscious -- the consciousness of God -- by practicing believing.

A Short Life Without End: Maybe Another Perspective

This is an "imagic" world. The tree is conscious; the leaves slough off; the consciousness continues. Every cell in me is me, but replaced by the same, they slough off continuously. The earth is alive, and life is its skin. Our consciousness is its consciousness; its consciousness was my father's. He is gone, and I continue. I will be gone, and my son will continue. Consciousness always continues. We reseat, our bodies slough off.

Anonymous asked about vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor (Romans chapter 9). The consciousness is honor, the matter that gives us bodies is subject to dishonor. We have the same consciousness as every other living thing.

"Matter" has life, too, for it is the intelligence of the Ineffable facilitating this experience by becoming matter. But matter is illusion -- the consciousness of the Ineffable forming the dream. Our consciousness, THE Consciousness, continues. The matter we ride goes back to dirt; it is subject to corruption. We, the consciousness, are not. We and matter are two that are one, but our dance with it is short. And all this is imagic of a reality on a much higher scale.

There is a turn when we become aware of being the consciousness in matter. "Oh, I have the same life as everything else. I am everything else; we are all the same thing. I existed before me, and I will exist after me. The dream before and after me is mine: I can dream what I will and it, be it before or after, will become. That's trippy."

Trippy, indeed. I was listening to Neville Goddard's fellow student under Abdullah, Joseph Murphy, lecture about our "friend," the subconscious (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0IC9Y0oa-Q). The subconscious is that part of the consciousness which is governing the body's functions and coordinating its experiences. It is the consciousness's eyes and ears in us. It's what makes Napoleon Hill's principles in Think And Grow Rich a real deal.

The subconscious goes by what we really believe. It coordinates not blindly, but by what it sees is true in us. Convince it, and you have it made. BUT you. have. to. convince. it.

No Future in the Bible

I am so glad to find the preface to Young's Literal Translation of the Bible online: http://www.bible-researcher.com/young.html#preface. Please consider what Young says about the use of tenses in the Hebrew Old Testament in the Preface to the Revised Edition, the Preface to the First Edition, and the Style of the Sacred Writers: 1) if narrating an event which might be either past or future, they spoke in the present; 2) if something was certain to happen in the future, they wrote of it in the past.

Basically, this means that the ancient Hebrew had no future tense.

God has an objective. He already figured out everything that needs to happen to fulfill his Manifestation. All those things were created -- imagined -- at the beginning. We now want these things which will get us to the Manifestation HE desires. They already exist in his economy! We just have to believe that we now receive them.

C. H. Dodd about the interpretation of the fourth Gospel: What happens at the end has already begun here and now. God counts it as already finished. We are just going through time to their culmination.

So when I read the Bible, including the New Testament, I mentally hear the 'wills' and 'shalls' of the future tense as present tense; e.g., "I will come again" becomes "I am (or have) come again."

Take a look at Young's comments and consider applying them yourself. Young's Literal Translation itself, unfortunately, is almost unreadable if you are not already familiar with Greek and Hebrew syntax and grammatical constructions.

Continuing With Anonymous

The Lady continues:

What I don't understand about "belief" is that it seems a requisite only for good things. As I understand "the Law" it is in operation 24/7 whether or not we are even aware of it. E.g. "I will never be certain that it was not some woman treading in the winepress who started that subtle change in men's mind." Neville goes on and on about "not recognizing our own harvest." Its seem the bad things happen effortlessly. People manifest all day long, with no conscious awareness of or belief in the process or mechanics of it.

But when it comes to good things, desires, things we want, then it's all these conditions that must be met, some of which are difficult to impossible for some people, given their circumstances. State akin to sleep, feel it solidly real, MUST be from first person perspective, no distractions (do you live in a noisy city?), be there now, no shred of doubt permitted. Loyalty, even if it takes years. It's vexing, quite honestly.

I'm not fully understanding your paragraph where you said God wouldn't touch you regarding tongues. One fault and you're out? I guess I'm out then. My faults are many, I'm sure. Since I was a child, I've felt rejected by God. And just as you said of yourself, I believed that because I WAS/AM. What I don't understand is, if "I am God" how can I relinquish self-control anyway? Are we the operant power? Or is it as the traditional church teaches, there's you AND God?

The weird thing is, before I ever heard anything of causative imagining, long ago I would have very vivid, solidly real daydreams, with myself experiencing it in first person, then coming out of it and feeling the "shock" Neville talks of, of being back in the actual reality. I mean I really did it effortlessly. None of it ever came to pass. None of it. Is it because I did not have the conscious awareness/belief that I was selecting a new reality? People do that all the time, not having the conscious awareness/belief that they are selecting a new reality - hence "not recognizing their own harvest." And I can't seem to do it anymore. I feel broken. Dead inside.

Can you tell me how you interpret the book of Romans, Chapter 9? Specifically where it gets to the vessels or honor and dishonor part?
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Dear ?,

Ever have a limb fall asleep, maybe from having your whole body weight against it while you were vividly daydreaming? The limb was still 100 percent you even though it was asleep from having its lifeblood cut off from it. You were conscious of it, especially while it tingled waking up, but it was not conscious or responsive to you. This is an imagic world, and that is an image of the sleep we are in from having our lifeblood, God's consciousness, cut off from us. We are still 100 percent God and he is conscious of us, but we are asleep in this unresponsive body.

I read the Bible much differently than John Calvin. He read it literal and historical, I read it as applying psychologically to just one man: me. John thought there were people involved. There is: me.  I am all of them in one way or another. I am the spirit conscious person and the flesh that shall die, dead already in sins (deviations from what is good and right). What I imagine 24/7 of this world is always coming into regrettable manifestation automatically. The spirit me has to go against the grain and force deviation from the mess the Egyptian is creating by following the technique. Vexing only until you get used to it.

Not I was out, my flesh is ALWAYS out. Mine, yours, and everyone else's flesh is always in offense. You ask about vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor. My spirit is a vessel and my flesh is a vessel. Guess which one is which. John just seriously misread the Bible because the church doesn't have a freaking clue as to how to read it, what it means by what it says. Try reading it from Victor Alexander's translation from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/letters/rom-9.html). Jacob is all of our inner men and Esau is all of our fleshes. The Children of the Kingdom are the spirits which rejoice in God's faithfulness. They receive mercy, the flesh is designated to die. My inner man's submission to its self-control is what I had to chuck out, submitting then to God. The operant power was accepted. Your "inner man" is a vessel of honor YHWH is cultivating to bear his own glory.

Calvin read "It is appointed for man once to die," as "once to live." We are of our inner nature eternal spirit: we all died in Christ ONCE at the beginning. We keep popping up in various lives because God has an agenda, a purpose for all this: we are bit by bit being transformed into his likeness as that spiritual nature is generated in us by our having to deal with the stupidity of the flesh. Egypt gets destroyed while Israel comes out with all the gold.

The church often says things correctly and understands them incorrectly. There is us AND God, yes, but there is no separation, like you and your sleeping hand. Believe me, you WANT the hand to wake up so that you can use it. You are not going to cut it off and discard it just because it is asleep, are you? No, you shake it and slap it around until the blood starts circulating again.

Perhaps our vividly solid and real daydreams do not come to pass because we pursue something else and believe that. Unfortunately, we believe junk and have to pursue good on purpose.

BTW: I would be remiss if I were not to suggest that if you have depression you need to be seen by a qualified physician for hormonal and/or neurological imbalances. I hope you don't need medicines, but I am just a blogger. I cannot counsel you past physical needs you might have. I hope there is a spiritual breakthrough, but even that might come through easier if your body chemicals are in balance.

The Technique is Belief

Dear What's in a Name,

I want you to believe. Learning that 'Abraham' means the Merciful Father IN you, you have to believe that the Merciful Father is in you. Learning that causation is by imagining, you have to believe that imagining causes. Told that God loves you and is with you, you have to believe God is with you and loving you. He hears you, heals you, forgives you, provides for you -- you have to believe it as your present reality.

Believing is the technique that makes everything become real. I was kind of loosely a Congregational Methodist growing up. I got into meditation and the occult, metaphysics for awhile. I met a demon and got into a Pentecostal fellowship right away, because I found out that stuff was real. My worldview was switched around, but asking for the gift of tongues, God wouldn't touch me. I did not know that cursed is everyone who does not continue to do EVERYTHING in the Law: one fault and you are out. I sure found out, though. I had a lot of faults, and I was wailing. I believed I was rejected because I WAS. I didn't know the verse, but I found out the reality. And I believed. I couldn't make up the difference, so all I could do in utter desperation was to cast my self-control out of myself and lay myself before God's mercy.

I cast self-control out of myself as an entity and submitted myself to God in utter surrender. I had nothing else I could do. Nowhere to go. All gates were open. And I believed he was glorious God, and that I was his. Whatever he wanted to do with me, whatever purpose he came up with, I was his meat. I believed that. And he said, "Remember this, and it is all right." Remember this? Continue in belief. He is there, and he is powerful, and he is conscious, and he speaks, and I am his.

You have heard great evangelists, read the Bible, followed Neville's logic, read my blog. All you have to do now is to BELIEVE it. The past is dead. All you can do now is to fix it by believing it, as horrible as it was, was good. Not that the horrible was good, but was good instead of horrible. Construct what SHOULD HAVE BEEN, and believe it was. Forgive and let it go. "Isn't it wonderful?" may sound insane to you, but if you live it in your imagination and believe, it is what will become.

Cracking Anonymous (Miss NoName)

A comment from my 8/29/2017 post, "I don't think Mr. Twenty-Twenty will mind my sharing this story":

Dan,

I'm hanging on by my last thread. I've been crying out to God for years. He doesn't hear me. I don't know why. Please, I implore you, pray for me, in whatever way you pray, in whatever way you understand God. I'm far too fearful to say "I'm your mud (wo)man, do with me as you will" because he's already offered me enough suffering. I want joy or nothing at all, going forward. Sometimes I think we are just God's body. God's vehicle. God wanted to FEEL so he needed a body. That's us. And it seems some of us get the "joy" assignment while others get the "pain" assignment.
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Dear Miss NoName,

Thank you for still being there. Let's talk. I am sorry you feel pain. I want to see if we can get you past it. I have a lot to say, and I hope you will patiently try to sew it all together in your mind. The bad thing about language is that it is linear; it strings out piece by piece what is really a whole. The listener has to apply skill to rebuild the whole. We are working on revision, the healing and correction of the past, and you have a lot of past to be healed and corrected. The change in you will come by a change in your perspective.

When I say "cracking Anonymous," I mean cracking that hard shell perspective that you've got. I hope to help you slough that perspective off. You remember Neville finding himself trapped in a tomb, his skull? That was his mind of perspectives formed in this experience of death. He squished himself out of that shell. Squish, girl, squish. There is Life just outside the illusion of the shell.

I am, by the way, neither an ordained minister, certified counselor, licensed mental health practitioner, nor qualified to help you in any way other than to discuss your problems with you and offer commonly known advice; i.e., my opinions. As your neighbor, I hope you are availing yourself of Neville Goddard books, lectures, and audios; and are reading the Christian Bible Epistles, Genesis and Exodus, etc..

I just posted an essay about living Aramaicly -- according to the ancient Aramaic scriptures -- WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LAW. It is heeding the faith in freedom. I hope you have the patience to work through Victor Alexander's translations from the ancient Aramaic (http://www.v-a.com/bible/supporters/). Galatians, by the way, is in "letters."

Your mind has to believe things to your own advantage. There is no joy assignment or pain assignment. It is a transition assignment for all of us. God is becoming in the locus of YOU. That bit in your mind that says "I" is Him dumbed down to you. No offense. If your consciousness is his consciousness, how can he not hear you? "For we know that he hears us . . . if we ask anything according to his will," (1 John 5:15 reordered).

I am sorry you have had such a rough time of it, but you have to believe good things. This is a big part of the transition. "Abraham" is the MERCIFUL Father in you. The real Big Guy is there in you and I. And you, like everyone else, have a promise of laughter and joy. It comes through the wives we are making. Do you understand that you are all the characters in the stories? It is the revelation of God, and he is you. So the Bible is the revelation of you. Like I said, you are Abraham, and you are Sarah, and you are Hagar. You are in transition from Abram and Sarai. Hagar is an Egyptian, the pleasures of the flesh. You have been shortchanged there, but the principle remains: The flesh does not commend us to God, only the Life itself does. The flesh nudges us -- the fact that we are cursed by it -- to accept the grace of God in the Life he offers. Then God brings forth the promise in your past.

I'm getting off track. God made you, and you are making your "wife." That is why little girls are so sweet and innocent and wives, well, not so much: wives are made by their husbands. Hagar is man creating his own life. Sarah is his getting it from the Merciful Father. That brings forth many nations and many mansions in your life. Is this the way you read your Bible, Anonymous? You are paying attention to the flesh and are not accounting yourself dead already to it. I mean you stay here, but account the things you as God desire AS BEING ALREADY ESTABLISHED IN YOUR PAST. I know you do not see them, but "the faith" is that the Ineffable Most High has ALREADY CREATED THEM. All good things come from the Father of Light AND ARE GIVEN TO YOU.

He is saying, "Yes, what good thing do you want? I have it for you," and is listening to your mind for what you believe IS. "My promise is to become whatever you say you have, for I am Eil, the Shaddai, the Provider of EVERYTHING -- thus you DO have it." And he peers in. What is he finding? Fear, sadness, hurt you are not letting go. You have to forgive the past and revise it to EXACTLY WHAT YOU DO WANT TO HAVE HAD. You say to yourself, I had a wonderful childhood, I was so loved and cared for. I loved everyone, and they loved me. I had a great time. And now I am . . . " What are you now if you were that? THAT is what to feel real knowing that consciousness, this consciousness, is the only reality.

"But Dan, that is a lie." No, what we imagine in the faith is the Truth. "God" is the action of imagining. Imagining makes it real. "But I never have experienced it." Imagine it as an experience. Take a good bite of chocolate and imagine a warm, loving embrace. Swoon. Feel it over and over and over again (just once for the chocolate) until it takes on all the sense of reality, that you are thinking from your state of swooning. Brush your teeth and sleep in joy.

Live Aramaicly. According to the scriptures. By imagining, not by this outward life. Believe and trust in God who loves you and gave himself for you.

Sorry, but I have to go. Else what I have made my wife will . . .