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Present Day Personality Egoism: Why It Is A Human Demon

Approaching this concept from the West, (pro = towards), we should have a simple understanding of the Greek word translated “demon,” before we get all the way to it (pros), into it (eis), in it (en), through it (dia), out of it (ek, but still attached) and away from it (apo).

Profane koine Greek used the words theos and daimon interchangeably. When Christian writers got to usage, a distinction was made between the two so that The God (o Theos) would be differentiated from a god (Theos) and demon (daimon).

The Greeks knew how gods are made.

Acts 17:16,21

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him,
when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time
in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

A teaching, I remember from my time at Emporia, KS, whether by Dr. Wierwille or another teacher, was that Athens had so many gods that it had outlawed any more by the time Paul got there. He used “The Unknown God” to bypass that law, conveniently provided by the Athenians, just to cover themselves in case there was one they had missed.

The idea of a god is made by the present day self egoism in relationship to the outside world for protection against the elements, enemies or bad fortune, among others. Basically, constructed out of fear. Once the idea takes hold in a group, it gains power emotionally and in thought form. Instead of understanding that power is the creation of devotees, they are led by thought forms moved by emotions, disregarding the idea of a god’s original intent. The doctrines are rational to a point, but emotionally driven to create a group identity according to the god they created and now serve.

They become spokes-people for that god, because it cannot speak for itself. And so, idols are made to represent a god as a monument (a tomb) to the “life” they had given it. Once that group is dead, the power of the idol can only be re-energized by another group of human beings.

A god is only outside of human beings by representation of a material image. Inside is where the human created demon lives. It’s outside power and force is carried out by human beings in the material world, as history has shown time and time again over the centuries. Paul has something important to say to the Corinthians:

I Corinthians 12:1,2

Now concerning spiritual(s) (gifts is in italics and should not be considered), brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

The sense of the Greek words is stunning in the text, with the end point being “led away unto execution.” The beginning of that process was, in a sense, carried away by the emotions, but (an_egeiro) “up-aroused, up-excited and up-awakened” unto non-speaking images in the material mind. Who supplies the “speaking” for them? The present day personality self egoism.

This is the very same word, egeiro, without ana (up) used in Romans 10:9b, “that The God hath awakened a self out of (ek, out but still connected) a dead body.” Much different than waking up with excitement and arousal in a living body that is being led to execution. The difference is that The God leads to non-destruction, thus salvation.

The present day personality self egoism knows that it has a time limit. It has a beginning and an end, and knows by experience that it is not eternal. But, while in a living body, it employs itself with trickery to keep us from being awakened to who we really are in eternity, thus dethroning our real self, which The God awakens when we “put egoism to death,” (de-energize and assimilate).

While we allow it on the throne, it pollutes the temple of God, allowing unclean demons of its own making, to thrive and increase population at the foot of its usurping throne. It holds court with the gods it has made, but they end up controlling the egoism and depriving a human being of the life of God that should be in that human temple.

The standard teachings on demons is that they are outside us and can get in…that there is a being called The Devil and devil spirits that are OUTSIDE us. That teaching has done more to destroy the church than about anything I can think of, because it does not address the Legion we have created in us over a lifetime. It gives our egoism an enemy to fight on the outside and something to blame for responsibility beyond ourselves and our groups.

So, our human demon, plunges us into shame, guilt, hatred, grief, fear, desire, anger and pride. All of these are energetic levels that suck the life of God out of the human being. (See: Healing and Recovery, by Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., for scientific proof). The results are dis-eases and illnesses in the physical, emotional and mental bodies. The good news is all of it can be reversed and the body, emotions and mind returned to good health and well-being.

This article has brought us all the way to (pros) the target of its aim. If we choose to do so, we can enter, be in, go through and out of the subject, so we can go away from it (apo) by awakening to truth and life while we are in the way regaining our real identity in eternity.

Some doctrines make us wait until “a gathering together” while our egoism keeps us from being perfected in Christ Jesus. Until now, we haven’t known any better. Western Christianity, in all its group forms, is leading us to execution, up-exciting, up-awakening, up-arousing its members by a God, gods, or demons of its own doctrinal and political insistence.

The words of the King James Version of the Bible have been massaged, arranged and presented in many other versions, but the God these represent cannot speak for Himself. Individual and group believers in “dead words” are glad to step up on pedestals and speak for that God. They can lead multitudes of seekers because they represent that God as the alive idols they are, up-exciting, up-arousing, up-awakening.

The God (o Theos or Alaha, in Aramaic) can speak for Himself when we turn off the noise of the present day personality self egoism, the human demon.

The process of Introspection aids in turning off the noise of the temporal and attuning to the eternal channel broadcasting the love of absolute infinite beingness, so we can cleanse the temple of God, our physical, emotional and thinking bodies before they disappear from matter.

No need to believe this writer. I can point, but the reader can aim and shoot the arrow. All voluntary, of course. No compulsion. No judgment. It is a freedom we can enjoy now. But, freedom requires work and responsibility for ourselves. Then, perhaps we can help others.

We can learn the process of cleaning the temple, through Introspection, from these “unclean spirits,” deaf and dumb, we have given life to and not let them back in with more like them.

Joshua Immanuel, the Christ, came here to demonstrate what we really are.

Who Are We…Really?

Let’s start with how we got here. Not the journey from the unity of seed and egg, but how our personal identity came about. I don’t have to tell anyone about this process, because we have lived it and are still living it.

Have we ever considered the word “experience?” It originally came from Latin meaning “out-expert.” Our experiences make us experts on what is outside us. This also implies that there is an “in-perience,” though we have no word for that as the opposite of experience.

Ephesians 3:16-19

That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened
with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded
in love,

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth,
and height;

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with
all the fulness of God.

This is most definitely not in the three dimensional experience of the physical / biological body. Paul mentions four dimensions. Being filled with all the fulness of God is not in the three dimensional world. Neither is that which surpasses the knowledge that belongs to the love of Christ.

So, when it comes to the inner man, in this context, why should we think it is not in four dimensions?

Sitting beside the playground of Richland Elementary School, under first grade shade, a very serious thought came alive in my young mind. “I am here.” Of course, I had a name at that time, but the thought said, “I am,” without reference to my developing personality.

I found this memory buried somewhere under 68 years of experience with the outside world. Public school, college, rock bands, The Way International, over thirty years as a video engineer and projectionist for live events, musician, composer and songwriter over 50 years, husband and father, to name a few, all recorded in my subconscious.

Honestly, I can’t recall how the memory was re-membered. Perhaps, it found me, instead of me finding it. That certainly happens with subconscious memories of our experiences. It is a precious memory that lived in my subconsciousness way before the following 61 years of making and remaking an ever-changing personal identity.

What comes to mind is the Parable of the Prodigal Son. We all know it, but do we really know it? If the parable is consistent throughout, and I can’t imagine Joshua Immanuel not being consistent in his teachings, then we did not originate in this world. We came from the Father’s house into this world which offered things we thought were our inheritance, external to our true inheritance. When all that is “spent,” we find ourselves feeding unclean swine. But, the good news is that we come to ourselves and re-member who we were in our Father’s house.

We get up and start walking home. Quite a journey in itself, walking back each step of experience in this world and replacing our ever-changing personal identity with our eternal identity, “I am.”

This certainly goes against the grain of what we were taught by well-meaning teachers and the horrendous doctrines of “born into sin” instituted by the Roman Church, after the passing over of the apostle John, and the re-fashioning and re-purposing of those institutions through the Protestant Re-formation.

The Greek word translated “sin” simply means “missing the mark.” It is the aim that is important and what we are shooting at. It takes practice. Just like the 68 year practice of becoming an out-expert in the external world.

Through Introspection, we have work to do and it is a good work, bringing present day egoism
under the mastery of “I am.” This goes beyond meditation, but meditation, concentration and observation are important to help Introspection unfurl its wings.

Have we been strengthened with might by the Spirit in the inner man? What part of that inner man is weak that it needs strength, the mighty kind? If we don’t know, how can we make room for the work of the Spirit without first addressing the obstacle occupying the Spirit’s place? Introspection.

I will give you a personal example. I have enjoyed rising up, for lack of a better term, for about a year now. I’ve had worth-remembering “dreams.” Notable for my process. Not saying anyone else has to or trying to start another organization. Our so-called future in glory organizationally lives in the Eternal Now, within the very cause of God’s infinite love, absoluteness and being.

Very recently, I “experienced” what many people have called an ecstasy, of great and infinite joy. It has been life changing in my own process. But, when it didn’t come again after a couple of weeks, I noticed that my “dreams” were always about the work I’ve done for over 30 years. Every night, the same scenarios played out for me to view. What happened to the ecstasy part?

By the way, I have been unemployed since March because of the shutdown. Talk about forced retirement. What a wonderful time to spend on things of the inner man instead of the shells!

My present day egoism (human devil) decided how things had to go. My “I am” says, “I am not you and you would not exist without me. There’s more work to do in introspection to take off the shell of that 30 plus year identity. (No I did not hear a voice. Having found a memory of my “I am,” I have been mastering my shells of identity.

Ephesians 6:12-21

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of
the body of Christ:

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

That ye henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in wait to deceive;

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him, in all things, which is the head,
Christ:

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh
increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles
walk, in the vanity of their mind.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the
ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness (excess), to work
all uncleanness with greediness.

But, ye have not so learned Christ;

If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

Those ancient words look differently to me now, by “experience.” Please forgive me for using the word experience for “in-perience.” But, you know what I mean. Getting out of the shells and becoming an out expert without them on.

Let us not be like the man of the tombs. He was enslaved among the memorials of his subconscious life. His identity was over 6,000 human demons accumulated over his lifetime, identified as Legion. Joshua Immanuel spoke directly and the human demons ended up in the unclean swine.

Hopefully, none of us have experienced the torture and brutality of a Legion of human demons we created for ourselves. Perhaps we are mostly alright as far as we know. The neighboring swine herders haven’t gotten involved. No one has tried to tie us up.

It is important to deal with these temporal identity shells to find ourselves naked and unashamed, revealing the light we really are.

In Power For Abundant Living, Dr. Wierwille taught us that there are 3 groups of "profit" for the manifestation of the Spirit:

Group 1: Speaking In Tongues, Interpretation of Tongues and Prophecy

Group 2: Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge and Discerning of Spirits

Group 3: Faith, Workings of Miracles and Gifts of Healing

That is NOT what the Greek text indicates.  Rather there are groups grammatically placed by the Greek words

"heteros" and "allos."

Group 1:  Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge

Group 2: Faith, Gifts of Healing, Working of Miracles, Prophecy and Discerning of Spirits

Group 3: Kinds of Tongues and Interpretation of Tongues

I am sure I am not the only one who has seen this in the Greek text.  This changes everything about the practices of the PFAL template, which, at best, are external expressions without Biblical accuracy.  There is more here that should be investigated by researchers of truth and life while we are in the way of this existence.

The word "profitable" is translated from the Greek word "sumphero."  It means to "bring together" or "carry together," as a whole, as a unity.  These Biblical relationships should be investigated, IF WE ARE HONEST about research and learning.

September 11^th: Happy Birthday!

September 11^th has a special meaning to us, who acknowledge this day as the birth date of Christ our Savior.

For it was on the night of September 11th, over 2000 years ago, the shepherds were living out in the fields watching their flocks. Without warning, an angel of God stood before them, and the brilliant “glory of the Lord” radiated about them all!

However, the angel calmed the shepherds, saying:

“Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.” --Luke 2:8ff.

 At that moment, suddenly a multitude of heavenly host joined ranks with the angel, praising God, and saying:

“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

Afterwards, the shepherds decided,

“Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.”   And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.

Once having found the child, the shepherds told everyone far and wide what the angels had told them. All were astonished—especially those who had been awaiting the Messiah.

But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.--Luke 2:19 HCSB

Mary built her confidence and her faith on the words of the angels, as passed on to her by the shepherds.

Mary was one of the great women of faith, whose example of believing still speaks louder today than words can describe. Genesis 3:15 first foretold of this courageous woman, who would challenge the devil head-on with “her seed”.

In retrospect, we see that the entire creation waited thousands of years for the arrival of Mary—the starlet who would finally believe to bring forth God’s son, our savior! 

For all the works humankind attempts in vain to please God, there is no greater pleasure to God than when one—like Mary—rises up to believe even one of His promises!

Consequently, Mary's simplicity of faith placed her in the center of God's heart.

We, like Mary, are to repeatedly rejoice at these angelic words, and treasure up all these things in our hearts, meditating upon them.

For most people, September 11^th recalls a dark, turning point in the history of the free world.

But, in stark contrast to the evil, September 11^th can remind us of the words of the angels:

“...good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”

“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

Like Mary, let us take this special day of the year to treasure up in our hearts all these things told to the shepherds that night, and meditate upon them.

Praise God for what He has accomplished!

 --Steve Sann

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