MYSTICAL_EXPERIENCES
God of Tradition vs. God of Experience
Neville teaches that true religious progress involves moving beyond inherited, externalized beliefs about God ('god of tradition') to a direct, personal, and…
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Control Your Inner Conversations
He is going to separate you from that traditional background that enslaved you in the past, because real progress in this world, -- religious progress, -- is a gradual transition from a god of tradition to a. God of experience. You experience God: and the whole thing reflects it.
Neville teaches that true religious progress involves moving beyond inherited, externalized beliefs about God ('god of tradition') to a direct, personal, and internal experience of God ('God of experience'). This transition is part of the Christ awakening and often involves a separation from past conditioning.
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Gifts Bestowed By God
It was easier in the past to believe in an external Christ – much easier to believe in an external God to whom I could pray; and then if He didn’t answer I would say, “Well, all right; so He doesn’t want me to have it.” I could justify failure. But then I had no escape, and that is a very difficult thing. I couldn’t turn to the left or the right and praise or blame any one, for I had found the Cause of the phenomena of life, and that Cause was my own wonderful human imagination, and that is what Scripture calls “God” and calls “Jesus Christ.”
Neville contrasts the 'god of tradition' (an external deity to whom one prays and can blame for unfulfilled desires) with the 'God of experience' (one's own human imagination, the undeniable cause of all life's phenomena). The latter leaves no room for blame or justification of failure.