1951 SECOND PORTLAND SERIES
Joel S. Goldsmith
601B – God, The Substance of Individual Being

This is Joel beginning the evening session of The Infinite Way class in Portland, Oregon, and continuing with the subject of God as the substance of all demonstration.

Good Evening. Tonight we want to continue the idea of consciousness, our individual consciousness, as the substance of our outer experience, of our entire demonstration. One thing you must remember, above all others in this work, is that I and the Father are one. Never forget that statement: I and the Father are one, otherwise you will be having a God outside somewhere, or separate and apart from your own being, and you will be attempting to contact It or get in touch with It or try to be worthy of It. You might even go so far as to get old fashioned and pray to It.
In this work, you only begin your real unfoldment when you understand, not only that God is life, but that God is your individual life. Unless you understand that, can’t you see that you’ll always be treating and trying to get healthy? Whereas the life, which is God, needs no healing. The life, which is God, can never age or change. All of our error, all of our mistakes, all of our ills come from that old belief that there is a God and a man, and that there is God, eternal life, and there is “my” life.
The only reason that we have mental upsets and nervous diseases is because of the belief that God is mind, and that sort of lets your mind and my mind stray away somewhere, whereas the understanding, “Yes, God is mind, but God is indivisible mind, individual mind, your mind and mine,” would keep us continuously showing forth the glory of infinite intelligence.
So it is, if you accept this universal world belief that there is a God somewhere to be reached, to be prayed to, to be contacted, to get at one with, you lose your demonstration.
I and the Father are one now. I and the Father have been one since before Abraham was. I and the Father will be one unto eternity, and whatever there is of treatment or prayer in our work is the realization of this truth that I already Am. I and the Father are one now, always, throughout all time. Now, to forget that, would be to lose the entire sense of the spiritual demonstration, because it would leave you in a state of having to achieve it, to get it, to attain it, whereas it already is the truth.
Now, God is the substance of this universe. God is the substance of which this universe is formed, but just think now what that means to you when you understand that God is your mind. Doesn’t that make a difference? When you understand that God is your consciousness, doesn’t it mean something else when you hear now that God made this universe? Yes, God made this universe out of your and my individual consciousness. Our consciousness is the substance and the law and the activity of our universe—not a God mind out here, not a God substance seven thousand years ago, but the mind of you, the consciousness of you is the substance, the law, the cause, and the activity of your world—of your experience.
In other words, your world is a reflection or an expression of your consciousness. Now if you understand that God is your consciousness, your world is a spiritual one, harmonious, perfect, complete. If you believe that you have a human mind, a human consciousness, made up of your ancestral beliefs, your home environment, your schooling, your education or lack of it, then your world becomes a world of finiteness, lack, limitation, sin, and disease—ultimately age and death.
The whole question that you must determine through your study is, “Is God my consciousness or have I a personal, mortal, material consciousness out of which my world of limitation is formed?”
As long as you hold to the belief of psychology and psychiatry, you must end up either in the grave or in the insane asylum, these are the only two places you can end up, because according to these teachings you have a personal mind of your own, and there is some kind of error in it that is destroying you, and sooner or later it’s bound to get you. Of course, if you can find what the error is, you can be saved. The only thing is that in all the years of psychiatry and psychology they haven’t yet found what that error is, but they’re searching for it.
Now then, there is no error in your consciousness. There isn’t a sign or a trace of sin or disease or lack in your consciousness. Why? Because God is the only consciousness there is. God is the only consciousness or mind that man has—and therefore, the only expression that can come forth from it is infinite good.
Now, you will say—some of you, “Oh, but look at this world of lack and limitation and sin and disease.” And I’ll agree with you. Look at it and see what comes out of that belief that we have a separate mind of our own and a separate will of our own and a separate consciousness of our own.
It is not Pollyanna. It is not saying there is no evil where there is, it is declaring that God is universal mind. Now if God is universal mind that means infinite mind, and there can’t be anything wrong with an infinite, eternal, immortal mind of God, nor can there be two minds—a God mind and your mind, otherwise how do you get that word infinity, eternality, immortality. Oh, no. You either have God or you have no God. You either have God as the one mind, which makes it your individual mind and mine, or you have God as less than infinity.
This practice for three-quarters of a century has shown that there is a God, and the nature of God is mind or soul or consciousness, and that it is infinite, therefore it is individual, and it is yours and mine. And so, treatment or prayer is not trying to make sick people well or bad people good. It is the recognition of God as the nature and character of your individual life and mine. It is the recognition of God as the soul of our being.
Now we read this in Matthew. It is in the twenty-fifth chapter:
When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was anhungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in; Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me,
Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, whence saw we thee anhungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee be a stranger, and took thee in? or naked and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee be sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
There is that oneness again…in as much as ye have done it unto one of these, the least—that’s you and that’s me—the least of these, it has been done unto the Christ. Why? I and the Father are one. Whatever is done unto you or done unto me, is done unto the Christ.
Now, I have shown you that, in the past, in this matter of supply, in this matter of demands, that are made upon us.
Let us suppose for a moment, that financial demands are made upon us greater than what we believe we can afford, greater than what we believe we have on hand. As long as we accept the universal belief that there is a you and a me separate and apart from God, we will also accept that we have a health and a wealth separate and apart from God, and in that degree we will have accepted limitation. And so, if you make a demand on me for more money than I have, my answer must be, “I haven’t got it. It is beyond my means.”
I am now talking about me, a selfhood apart from God. But let that demand come to me, and I say to myself, “Wait a minute, certainly I of my own self can do nothing. Certainly, that which we call this separate entity, this selfhood apart from God can’t meet this thing, never could, probably never will be able to, but that’s not my true identity. Christ is my true identity. I live, yet not I, Christ liveth my life, And therefore, this is not a demand made upon me as person, this is a demand made upon me as the Christ, on the Christ of me.”
Oh, for just a moment, let’s get off that subject and let us say that somebody has just telephoned in that here is a case of cancer and here’s a case of consumption and here is an automobile smashup and they say, “Please take care of it right away.” And the answer must come, I can of my own self do nothing.
Now nobody here, or out there, expects that I or you, individually or collectively, can heal anybody or anything, much more the cancers and the consumptions of the world. And so, what is that demand made upon? Is it made upon Jesus? Is it made upon Joel? Is it made upon you, or is it made upon the Christ of our being? Now none of you would be surprised if a healing took place at once of any nature. Oh, you say, that’s natural—the Christ always is the healer, and it does work.
Well fine, that’s the truth. What is the difference between the request to heal a cancer or consumption or paralysis or a request for a thousand dollars? Will you tell me what the difference is? Man whose breath is in his nostrils can’t meet it, but Christ can, and Christ is my true identity. I live, yet not I, Christ lives my life. Oh, of course that’s true of me. It’s true of you. The only reason that we are here is not to make that come true, but to awaken you to your true identity as Christ. Wake, wake, wake. Christ will waken you from this sleep. Open up, Open up, and realize that Christ is your true identity, not mortality, not humanness, not limitation. That’s not your real being. Christ is your real being. Awake! Awake! Awake, and Christ will give thee light. Light as to what?—as to your true identity. Christ is your true identity. And so, if I say out there to you, “Heal me,” there’s no reason why anybody in this room should refuse the responsibility. I’m not calling on you as man or woman. I’m not calling on you as child, as student, I’m calling upon that part of you which is your God-ordained being, your real selfhood, the Son of God of you—that which is made in the image and likeness of God, and which has been empowered from on High. God gave man dominion over everything, and so there’s no reason why anyone should not say to you: “Heal me.” And you should say: “While I can of my own self do nothing, my human understanding is too little, the Christ of me can take care of it.”
Well, the same thing should be if I should do to you what Mrs. Eddy did to her students—write a letter out and say, “Send me a thousand dollars each next week.” And she did not take any excuses from them. Oh, no, the next week they had to forward a thousand dollars each to her for the building of that church. She tells the story in her own writings.
Why not? She knew that she was teaching them a lesson of the infinite nature of their being and of the infinite capacity, and if she hadn’t given them that lesson they never would have awakened to the fact that they had access to a thousand dollars. They would have always accepted the belief that they were poor and limited. That awakened forty of them up, anyhow, into the realization that there was no limit to what they could produce, when they understood that Christ was the source of their good.
So please remember, whether you are called upon for healing work, or whether the members of your family, or those who have legitimate call upon you, should suddenly descend on you for more than you think you can afford, don’t turn away and refuse it, but take the responsibility as students of this work to say, “Even though I humanly see no way to meet it, the Christ of me is infinite. It is eternal, and It can meet it”
In as much as any good has ever been done to the least one of you or me, and you know how much good has been done to you, and I can tell you how much has been done to me—that was done not unto me, but unto the Christ, for I and the Father are one.
And so every time you meet a need of anyone, for love, cooperation, money, supply, a favor, a healing, you’re not doing it for them as a human being, you are doing it unto Christ and through the Christ of your own being. No wonder Peter and John could turn to the Hebrews and say, Why marvel ye men of Israel that this man is healed, as if we, of our own selves had done it, as if we, through our power or our understanding had done it. Oh, no. It was the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob that raised this man up.
And so it is, when any call is made upon us, unless you believe that the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob can do it through you, you are not acknowledging that God is your Father and my Father, our Father which art in heaven. Oh, no. Unless you can actually believe as we’re taught in Romans: The same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead will quicken also your mortal bodies. Do you believe it? Well, there is no spirit out here. The Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead was the Spirit of God in Jesus. There is no Spirit of God out here that’s going to raise you up. The Spirit of God that’s going to raise you up is the Spirit of God appearing through your practitioner, your teacher, your leader, and ultimately when you do the healing work or the supplying work it is going to be the Spirit of God through you.
The activity of the Spirit of God, of the Spirit of Truth in you, is going to do it, but when, when, when, are you going to accept your responsibility and understand this, as each one of us must do, that this demand is not made upon me. This demand is made upon the Christ of me. Then you are demonstrating that when you help someone, you’re not really helping them. As a matter of fact, they may get far less benefit from what you do for them than you get.
As a matter of fact, they may not even get a lasting benefit from what you do for them, but you will, because you will have demonstrated to your own satisfaction that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead is at work, here and now, in you and in me.
And so you see that until you come to this realization that this God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that this same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead is your very own soul, is your very own life, is your very own mind, you’ll be trying to reach it out here somewhere through prayer or through meditation.
We pray and we meditate, not for the purpose of reaching some God somewhere, for the purpose of communion with God. Where is God? The kingdom of God is within you. So the purpose of meditation isn’t getting at-one with God. It isn’t seeking God. It’s not trying to be worthy of God. Oh, no. The purpose of meditation and prayer is communion with the Father within you.
Now, as we turn within for that purpose, you’ll find one of the tapes, which you will have here eventually, is on the 23rd Psalm, and you will find in there that I have said, on a particular evening, that prayer is not something that you do or I do. Prayer is something we become aware of within ourselves as something God does. We don’t pray. We become aware of God praying in us.
In other words, we become aware of the word of God. Now the word of God doesn’t come from you or me. The word of God comes from God to us. Therefore, the purpose of our prayer is to develop a state of receptivity in which we can become aware, hear if necessary, the still, small voice within our own being, and that’s the purpose of meditation. Meditation is for the purpose of being still and letting the still, small voice impart Itself to us. It isn’t what we say to God that’s of any importance. None, None, None, None! There’s no God interested in anything we say. What is important is what do we hear from God, what impartation do we receive from the Father within. Why do you think the Master went away forty days at a time? Not to talk to God. I can assure you. God is the infinite, all-knowing mind, and It doesn’t need any conversation even with Jesus Christ. It doesn’t need any help from us, or any guidance in telling It what we want or what we think we need.
Oh, no. That is disrespect to the all-knowing mind. That’s a lack of understanding of the nature of the all-knowing mind. The Master said, Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things, and it is His good pleasure to give you the kingdom. You don’t have to tell the Father what things you need. You have to listen for the Father, that the Father may impart to us infinite wisdom, infinite intelligence, infinite guidance. And where from? From some outside place? No. The kingdom of God is within you. It is at the center of our being, of our consciousness, and we develop this awareness.
Now, when we say here that I was anhungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in, naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me, aren’t we only describing the lot of human beings? Aren’t they all either sick or in prison or naked or hungry or in trouble of some kind? Certainly that is the continuous state of humanity. But we’re told ye gave me meat. Ye gave me drink. Ye fed me. Ye clothed me. Ye gave me comfort. And where did this comfort come from and this meat and this drink except from the center of our being, divine consciousness.
Is there any way to feed a man except feed him with that meat the world knows not of? Is there a way to satisfy a person’s thirst really with a glass of water, or must we not slake that thirst with the waters of eternal life, spiritual inspiration, spiritual illumination. That’s the food and that’s the drink and that’s the clothing, the white robe of Christ.
Oh, it’s very nice if a person’s hungry to give them a meal, and it’s very nice if they lack clothing to give them an overcoat or a suit, but that’s not the real feeding, and that’s not the real clothing or housing, and to go into prison on prisoner’s day and sit with them for a half hour, that isn’t the real comfort.
But when you bring them the Spirit of Truth, when you bring them this meat that the world knows not, this water, that when you drink it you never thirst again, water that springs up into life eternal, when you give them this white robe of spiritual truth, when you give them the comforts that the Master spoke of when he said, I will send you a Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, that’s the comfort, that’s the consolation to bring to people.
How many times do you think we experience in this work, occasions of so-called death, passing on in families, and we are called upon for some expression of comfort, of consolation, and do you know what we’ve really discovered? That the words are very cold no matter how beautiful they may be, the words leave the people still comfortless.
It is only when you have an actual consciousness of love that feeds them, that supplies them with a comforter in place of what they believe they have lost, that you leave them satisfied, contented, and at peace. And that comes out of the depth of the Spirit. You don’t do that with words. You do that with your feelings. You do that with your consciousness of God as eternal life.
You turn to a person—I don’t care whether they’re a truth student or not, you turn to a person who has had a severe loss, and you are entertaining in your thought the realization, “Why God is the only life. No life can come and no life can go. Life is eternal, and life is immortal.” You watch the expression in the face of those people; you watch the comfort that you give them, and you haven’t uttered one single word in words.
And so it is, we are in and of a spiritual ministry, and it is our function in life to give people the meat and the wine and the water and the bread and the comfort and the consolation and the freedom to those that are prison bound. But there is only one way in which we do it: As we realize that the kingdom of God is within us, the Christ, the I that I really am, that Soul at the center of our being feeds them, clothes them, sustains them, becomes the comforter unto all who mourn. It must come from the center of our being, and it must come as a Spirit of truth, a Spirit of wholeness, of holiness.
When you observe lack or limitation in friends or relatives, you are producing in them a sense of lack and limitation. When you behold wholeness, completeness, and perfection in them you are bestowing those qualities upon them. That is the only way in which you can really give meat, wine, and water. That is the only way you can give inspiration, food, raiment, freedom, peace of mind, peace of soul, only by beholding God as their innate perfection, God as their real soul and substance and life.
The moment you look at any individual, and behold God as the reality of their being, you are giving them wholeness, completeness, and perfection—not that they haven’t got it, but you are bringing it out into manifestation. It’s very much like the film—the photograph that’s been taken on film—and when you look at it, there’s nothing there until you dip it into the right mixture of chemicals, and then when you behold it, the image is there in plain view. It was there all the time, but it wasn’t to be seen until these chemicals brought it out.
And so I can say to you, that wholeness and harmony and perfection and joy and peace and power and eternal life and immortality and all good, is all that exists in this room. But it’s absolutely invisible until one with God is a majority, until some one, who is consciously one with God, looks out and says: “All that I can see is the Holy Ghost, the Son of God, the Divine Expression. All I know here is Christ: Christ as the Son, Christ as the Holy Ghost, Christ the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, all one.”
All I know and recognize is the Spirit of God among you, and then one beholding that, brings this invisible picture out into visibility, and then someone goes out and says, “I was healed. I was comforted. I was uplifted. I was improved. My pain was stopped. My cold stopped.” What happened? The perfection was always there, but one with God was the majority that beheld even that which was invisible.
Now, every time that one truth student beholds any form of discord or inharmony, and to themselves, remind themselves: “Ah, yes, that’s the appearance, but I know the invisible picture there—the invisible Christ. I behold there the real soul of that individual, the real strength of their being, and of their body.” You have given meat in My name. You have given wine and water and raiment and freedom from the prison house. Yes, you have fulfilled Isaiah. That’s why we have come. We have come to heal the sick, to comfort those that mourn, to set at liberty those that are in prison houses.”
Let us look for a moment, at Isaiah. (42:1-9).
Behold, my servant, whom I uphold: mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath set judgment on the earth: the isles shall wait his law.
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out: he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it: he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Surely God has put His spirit upon us that we are the children of God. Now many of the four billion on the face of the earth have either forgotten it, or haven’t even been told about it by their religious leaders, and they sit in darkness believing that they are worms in the dust, unfit to touch that holy robe. Whereas as a matter of actual truth, found here in scripture—in the scripture of all people, I, God have put My spirit upon you, and you are children of God.
And so it takes one—a Moses, an Elijah, an Elisha, a Jesus, a John, a Paul. It takes one to look out and say: “Why the Lord God has put His Spirit upon you. You’re not living, Christ liveth your life. Christ is your life. Christ is your soul. Christ is your supplier, the multiplier of your loaves and fishes. Christ is that activity of your consciousness, which makes manna fall from the sky, which raises even the dead. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon you.”
And every time that you make that declaration, or remember it in the silence within you, to someone who is in discomfort, someone who is in the prison house of darkness, someone who is in the prison house of sin, disease, lack, and limitation, every time—instead of pitying them—you turn to them and silently realize, “Why I the Lord have put My Spirit upon you and ye are children of God. Rise, pick up your bed and walk… What did hinder you?”
Is there a power apart from God? No, there’s no power apart from God. Then let us stop worshiping these germs, these killers, these destructive influences, and recognize that in and of themselves they never had power. Why? Because the Spirit of the Lord God is upon you, and what could oppose that? And so, every time you do that, you are fulfilling Matthew 25. You are giving meat to the hungry. You are giving water to the thirsty. You are giving consolation, freedom, healing, and even raising from the dead. And that entitles you to be one of those who sit on the right hand of God, which means only this: it entitles you to come into the realization of your true identity, and enjoy the fruits of the Spirit. There’s nobody going to sit on the right hand of God. There’s nobody going to sit on the left hand of God, and nobody is going to be cast into outer darkness.
Sad enough it is that we hold ourselves in outer darkness by not knowing the truth of our true identity. Sad it is that we throw ourselves outside the kingdom of heaven by our inability to feed the hungry, and give drink to the thirsty, and healing to the sick. And the only reason that we haven’t that power is the lack of recognition of this truth that the Spirit of God is upon me, and that Spirit enables me to open the eyes of the blind. How? By recognizing that the Spirit of God is upon them. That’s how it’s done; with the recognition of the truth of your true identity, and the true identity of all men and women—no other way.
You remember a marvelous passage that comes to me. The disciples had gone out and had evidently done some healing work, and they came back so happy, so overjoyed, why even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And what a rebuke they got. Don’t ever say that. Don’t ever say that the devils are subject unto you through my name. Just rejoice that your names are writ in heaven.
Why certainly, there’s nothing subject unto you. Nothing! You haven’t got power over any discordant things because God is really the only power, and He never made any discordant things. Just be glad your names are writ in heaven. Just be glad that the Spirit of God is upon you and upon all men, and, therefore, there are no discords, no diseases, no sins. Those are only appearances that would fool the very elect.
Stop this nonsense of believing that you‘re a good practitioner, and you can heal disease. There never was a good practitioner in all the history of the world, except the practitioner who knew he couldn’t heal disease. There’s your good practitioner. The practitioner that knows that God is the only creative principle of this universe, and certainly God never created anything to be healed or reformed or enriched.
Why the Spirit of God is upon you, and you can drop this illusion, this illusory sense of a selfhood apart from God, and that brings us back right to where we started. And that is this: If you accept the belief that there is a selfhood apart from God, then you’ve got to go through the forty years of wilderness experience with Moses, and you may get through it in forty years, but it might take you four hundred.
If you accept a God or mind separate and apart from your own, you will be wandering with the Hebrews all the way from Genesis to what is it—Malachi? Yes, you’ll wander through all those books before you ever get into the New Testament, and you may wander as many centuries as they wandered. And there was only one reason for those wanderings. They could have all ended in the first chapter of Genesis. In other words, they might never have started. There need never have been a second chapter of Genesis had we only abided in the truth of the first chapter of Genesis. That’s all.
That God made this world including man in His own image and likeness, and everything was perfect. Anything that God didn’t make wasn’t made.
And so, if we never had wandered away from the first chapter of Genesis we wouldn’t have to be in metaphysical religions today, and we wouldn’t have had to call forth Jesus to be born and crucified, and we’d have all been at peace. But now, having strayed out of the first chapter of Genesis, it looks like we’ve got to take the whole journey up to Revelations—and that’s a long one.
One thing is certain, that after you come to the New Testament, your journey is shorter. The biggest part of it is over. The biggest part of the Bible is the Old Testament. The shortest part is the New Testament, because the distance from the ministry of Jesus Christ into the revelation or the realization that the temple not made with hands, eternal in the heavens is a much shorter journey than the first part. So let’s be grateful, at least, that we are up in the New Testament part heading for Revelation.
Alright, now we begin our treatment, and you will notice in this leaflet that we have some passages of scripture that enable us to keep our thoughts stayed on the real nature of treatment and of prayer.
By following these citations, and as many others as you can find in the Bible, you will learn the true nature of treatment and of prayer. And you will see, to begin with, that neither prayer nor treatment has anything to do with keeping your mind on a problem to be gotten rid of. That the entire nature of treatment and prayer is to keep your mind stayed on God and let the activity of God in your consciousness do everything that is necessary in the way of demonstration out here. I will repeat what I have said to you before, that the Hebrews’ mistake was in thinking that the falling manna was the demonstration. It wasn’t. Moses’ consciousness of the presence of God was the demonstration, and the falling manna was the result of the demonstration.
And in the same way, the multitudes who were with Jesus, and who had to be rebuked, they thought that the multiplication of loaves and fishes was the demonstration, and it wasn’t. It was Jesus’ realization of the presence of the Father within him. That was the demonstration, and through that demonstration, the loaves and fishes were multiplied, and that was the result of the demonstration.
And so with us, keep your mind stayed on the fact that God and I are one, that the mind of God is my mind, the life of God is my life, the soul and spirit of God is my soul and spirit, that the Christ is the real and true life of my being, and that truth entertained in your consciousness will become the law of multiplication of loaves and fishes or multiplication of healings or raising of the dead.
This truth of oneness in your consciousness will become the law of harmony unto your universe. That is the activity of prayer. That is the activity of treatment. It is our realization of God as our individual being. That truth, the realization of the presence of God in us, is the demonstrator of all outward effects. You and I cannot manipulate out here to produce healings or supply. We can only stay at the center of our being realizing God as our true nature, and let that truth do all of the works out in what we call the outer plane.
And so now as we go into our quiet meditation, we realize, first of all, that all of those we have brought with us, our patients, our students, members of our families, a lot of our enemies, that they all exist here within our consciousness, that they all live and move and have their being in divine consciousness, which is our consciousness of truth.
And, of course, they have brought themselves to our consciousness because they have turned to the Father within for help, for healing, for regeneration, for spiritual uplift, or that spiritual meat, and spiritual drink. For that reason the activity of truth in our consciousness now becomes the law unto their being, unto their body, unto their health, unto their wealth.
And that is why, as you seek what we call demonstration for yourself or for them, please remember the nature of the demonstration that you are to seek. You are not to seek outer meat, wine, water. You are to seek the demonstration of spiritual meat, spiritual water—the water that if you drink, springs up into life eternal; the wine, not the wine of grape, the wine of inspiration that results outwardly in harmony, wholeness, completeness, comfort.
We are to seek the spiritual meat, that which the Master said, I have meat ye know not. That is the meat we are to pray for—the spiritual meat, the spiritual bread, not the material bread. I Am the bread of life. We pray then for a recognition and realization of the bread of life. We pray for recognition and realization of the spiritual meat that the world knows not. We pray for spiritual water, the water of eternal life.
We pray for the realization of the Holy Ghost of the resurrection, that which is to raise up our temple, the temple of our body, the temple of our business, the temple of our finances, the temple of our church, the temple of our nation, if necessary.
And we pray then for spiritual light, spiritual illumination, and spiritual freedom, and as we achieve the realization of that, be assured it will appear outwardly as wholeness, harmony, and completeness.
We have learned now, not to live by bread alone, but by every word of God, and therefore, this word of God which we have heard with our ears, which we have entertained in our heart, does not return to us void, but does that where unto It is sent.
Amen. And thank you and God bless you.

Do not ever forget that the Master was learning in the three year period of his ministry. It took those three full years before he was able to say: “He that seeth me seeth him that sent me.” (John 12:45) He went through the period, first, of being a Son of man, then, a Son of God, and finally he realized: “I am He, and besides Me there is none other.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Consciousness Unfolding