“It is only when you become alive to the Christ in you that the Christ is active on earth through you. In your preparatory state, the Christ is not released on earth through you. Only when you finally come to the actual experience of feeling the Presence within you, hearing the voice within you, or recognizing something other than yourself within you, only from that moment on are you releasing the Christ into this world because only at that moment is Christ alive and active in you.”
I F . W E . C O U L D . J U S T . S T E P . B A C K
If we would step back and take a long look at our little lives – our fashioned selves that fail miserably to obey us when we most need it, whose emotions connect not one iota with our aspirations, we’d want one thing only: to see it destroyed.
“Joel talks about the “straw man.” And that’s us in our humanhood: a straw man that we’ve created, the human sense of “I.” And it’s non-existent: there is no such person.
“There is no such being: there aren’t any human beings.
“We are spiritual being. So this little “I” is non-existent – a straw man that world mind has built and we’ve personalized it!
“This “I” that we have built up, that we’re struggling so hard to maintain, support, heal, has no existence at all. There’s no such thing. But we’re trying to maintain it instead of letting it go, and instead of realizing there’s only One I and It is Self-maintained, Self-sustained.
“All the fears, and emotions, and illnesses, lacks – all the human problems – are the problems of this straw man; they aren’t of spiritual identity. They’re of this creation that we’ve drawn humanly in world mind.
“An imaginary person has no real existence whatever.
“And we spend our whole human life trying to take care of this straw man we’ve made. It’s a selfhood apart from God. And we’ve been wanting all the qualities of God for it, and no problems, no errors, and of course, it cannot be done.
Luella Overeem
1991 Green Bay Easter Class”
Matt 6:33
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.
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“The object of The Infinite Way is to develop spiritual consciousness, not primarily to produce health out of sickness or wealth out of lack. Those are the added things, and those who catch even a grain of spiritual perception are showing forth health, prosperity, and happiness, and thus they are living more useful lives.
But this is not the goal. The goal is attaining the spiritual vision so that we can behold God’s universe and can commune with Him walk and talk with Him, live with Him, and learn to live with one another, not merely humanly because our most joyous human companionships are much more worthwhile when we have attained a measure of spiritual companionship.”
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“The development of spiritual consciousness is the greatest attainment there is. Only in the degree of this attained consciousness are we able to see the spiritual forms of God’s creating. This has nothing to do with the development of the mind or with any intellectual powers; it is not attaining the feeling of knowing more than we knew before: it is a matter of attaining a depth of inner awareness, an awareness that expresses itself not so much in words as in feelings.”
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“We cannot adopt new ideas while still clinging to the outworn beliefs of the past: we must be willing to relinquish our old concepts. That is where the courage comes in, and the daring. It takes courage to leave behind that which has proved to be unsatisfactory in our experience. It takes courage to look at ourselves objectively and ask: Have I sincerely worshiped God? Have I in some measure lived up to my convictions about God?”
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“We must understand that the message of The Infinite Way is not to give the world a new teaching, but to give the world an experience. The Infinite Way is actually a God-experience, a Christ-experience. The Infinite Way is not its writings, lectures, or classes. These are the instruments leading us to The Infinite Way, but The Infinite Way itself is the God-experience.” ~Joel
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“…the only way that the message of The Infinite Way can be kept pure is for every individual to be responsible to himself or herself in God, and to be sure that their authority reaches nowhere at all outside of their own being.”
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“…there must never be an Infinite Way organization, because the moment there is, there is either an individual, or a board of trustees, or a board of directors, and then they become the deciding factor as to where you shall live, and when, and what you shall do.”
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“The Infinite Way begins with the revelation that there is a transcendental consciousness, which in Christian mysticism is called Christ-consciousness and in Buddhism is called the Buddha-mind. In either case, what is meant is that there is a consciousness higher than the human mind. This is not a matter of general knowledge. True, there may be those who accept the idea that Buddha had that spiritual consciousness and that Jesus had the mind that was in Christ, but there are not many who understand that this Christ-mind, or consciousness, is universal to all men, and that it is just as much yours and mine as it was that of Jesus or Buddha. As long as you believe there is a God out there separate and apart from your being, just so long do you personalize God and set up the picture of an entity, identity, or a being outside of you. God is being, but not a being. God is being you and being me so to set up a God separate from that Being produces the sense of separation that keeps us in ignorance. That personalizing of God, personalizing I, is the ‘veil’ that brings about man’s sense of separation from God. Personalizing God by accepting Jesus as the only Christ also pulls down the “veil.” In fact, the personalization of Spirit is the ‘veil.'”
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“The Master had great difficulty in imparting this idea to the Hebrews who had observed ceremonies, rituals, and holy days, but who had been given little or no spiritual enlightenment. All their instruction had been in the realm of the mind and in the observance of outward rites, and that is not sufficient. Spiritual teaching must enter the heart; it must be in the Soul: it must be felt rather than reasoned or thought; it must be intuitively understood. Only then can we take the word I into the sacred and secret place of the most High and dwell there with It. If we dwell in the secret place of the most High and abide with that I, let the I abide in us, let that I flood our consciousness, It will impart Itself to us and say: ‘Know ye not that I am God? ‘Be still, and know that I am God’; I in the midst of thee am mighty. I will never leave you, nor forsake you.'”
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“Be assured that if I made any rule that would in any wise stop the progress of any one of our teachers, that teacher would go right on developing, if not inside The Infinite Way, then outside it, because no one can control consciousness. No one can make rules for consciousness. An individual will break out of any rule the moment his consciousness it prepared for it…”
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“There is a tremendous power in the consciousness of any individual who so attains this inner union as to receive these impartations of scriptural promises. And by bringing ourselves to those who have attained some measure of that, we partake in a measure of their Grace. ‘I if I be lifted up shall draw all men’ unto that same level of consciousness. We benefit by each other’s realized Grace. Whatever degree of Grace you and I attain, we share with each other and find it multiplied among ourselves.
‘Where two or more are gathered together’ in the same consciousness there is this power felt on even a greater degree. And that’s why it is that so much must be kept out of our consciousness of the world’s loves and hates, of the world’s fears and doubts in order that as we come together, this inflow of the Spirit can find Itself multiplied on earth. Then not only are we, individually and collectively, a blessing to all around us but to all those in far places who in some way or other have been led to reach and touch our consciousness.
Never think for a moment that these people find our consciousness by any human means. They don’t. They are spiritually directed from within, and they reach out all over the world just as we reach out all over the world to those who have illumination, and we find ourselves one with God once again. “
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“Now, it is for this reason that whatever of truth is revealed to us is something that we must work with within ourselves up to the point of realization; in other words, not try to share it, not try to heal somebody with it, not try to teach somebody it, except what we do silently. Rather, work with it within your own consciousness until you have achieved a measure of that light or experience, and then from there on, you will be directed how, when, and where, and under what circumstances to share, to impart, to reveal. And ultimately you will have a part in God’s unfoldment to human consciousness and you will play that part as practitioner, as healer, as teacher or lecturer or writer – in whatever way God chooses.”
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“The answer, the solution to all problems, is the realized Christ”
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“Prayer is our contact with God. It is the means through which God’s grace performs Its miracles in our experience. But prayer must be a listening attitude. It must be a willingness that the Spirit of God fill us and perform Its functions in us and through us.”
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“More and more we must become the spectator or witness. We must become the beholder of Life and Its harmonies. Each morning we should awaken with eagerness to watch the new day unfolding and revealing each hour new joys and victories. Several times each day we should consciously realize that we are witnessing the revelation of Life eternal, the unfolding of Consciousness and Its infinite expression, the activity of Spirit and Its grand formations. In every situation of our daily experience, let us learn to stand back of ourselves and see God at work, witness the play of Love upon our affairs, and watch God reveal Himself in all those about us.
Every night we should realize that our rest does not bring to a close God’s activity in our experience, but that Love is the protecting influence and substance of our rest, that Consciousness is imparting Its ideas to us even in sleep, that Principle is the guiding law throughout the night. Nothing from without can enter consciousness to defile, and this truth stands guard at our mental portals to admit only reality and its harmonies.
Be a beholder, a witness. Watch the unveiling of the Christ in your consciousness.
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“The student of spiritual wisdom cannot go through his day, satisfied that he has read some truth in the morning, or that he is going to hear some truth in the afternoon or evening. There must be a conscious activity of truth going on all the time. That does not mean that we neglect our human duties and activities; it means that we train ourselves to have some area in consciousness always active in truth. Whether we look out at forms of nature such as trees, flowers, or oceans, or whether we are meeting people, we find some measure of God in each experience. We train ourselves to behold the presence and activity of God in everything around us and to abide in the Word.”
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“‘I have meat to eat that ye know not of. . . .’ I have bread, wine, water. . . . I am the resurrection. All the power of healing, redemption, and regeneration is within me.
This is the Master’s transcendental teaching.
As human beings, we place our reliance on persons and things in the outer world, on education, money, bonds, or investments. That man who has his being in Christ places his entire reliance on Spirit and trusts it to bring forth all that is necessary in the outer realm. Whenever faced with some need or desire, let us realize Spirit as the source of its fulfillment; let us realize Spirit as the law unto it, even the law of multiplication should that be necessary. Then let us go about our business, whatever it may be, taking such human footsteps as may be necessary at the moment. This is living a normal, natural life, but letting the Spirit, the Infinite Invisible, be the law of it, the substance of it, the cause of it, and the harmonious maintainer and sustainer of it. In short, we make no change in our present mode of living, except as the Spirit, Itself, may pick us up and direct us into new activity.”
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“Through the use of scriptural passages, we build such a consciousness of the ever-presence of the Infinite Invisible that although we continue to enjoy and appreciate everything in the world of form, everything that exists as effect, yet never again do we have the feeling that we need or require anything. Inasmuch as God’s grace is our sufficiency, we do not live by effect alone, but by every word of truth that has been embodied in our consciousness and by every passage of truth that we have made our own. Every word of truth must be learned and made a part of our consciousness so that it becomes flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, until the past, present, and future are all bound up in the conscious realization of God’s grace as our sufficiency. In other words, our consciousness of truth is the source, substance, activity, and law of our daily experience.”
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“We, who are practicing the Presence, are of the few who know what ultimately will save the world. It is above all things the acknowledgment that no man on earth is our father: There is one universal Father within us, and united with Him, we are united with every spiritual child of God throughout the world. Our love for God constitutes our love for the people of the world. We no longer hate; we no longer fear. We need not punish; we need not seek vengeance: We need only withdraw into ourselves and contemplate our oneness with God and with one another.”
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“As we go into the healing work, the first calls will be for what the world calls ‘lesser claims,’ and in a short time we may begin to think, ‘Oh, I have some understanding,’ or ‘I am getting results through my understanding.’ If we do, we shall never become successful practitioners or teachers, because we can never heal through our understanding, God forbid that God’s presence and power should be dependent upon our understanding!
Healing is an activity of the Christ; it is an activity of God’s understanding. We have been thinking in terms of my life, my health, my supply, my worthiness, my understanding, and these are not involved at all: It is God’s life, God’s health, God’s supply, God’s worthiness, God’s understanding. The Master made that very clear when he said that of his own self he could do nothing; it was the Father within; therefore, it was the Father’s understanding. The moment we open our consciousness to the flow of God and stop all this nonsense about our understanding and our good or bad behavior, we can be assured of this: The flow of God will erase and purify whatever of error or deed is in our thought today and will wipe out all penalty for past infractions. We must come into the realization that it is not our understanding that does this, but God’s, and we must come out from the old Judaic ideas and beliefs of a God of punishment and reward. God is not a God of punishment and reward. God is love. God is life.”
God’s Work is never copyrighted. Freely ye have received, freely give.
John 1:17 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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N O N – E X I S T E N C E . O F . M A T T E R
Having been raised with the below conviction of Joel S. Goldsmith, I had to “learn” about certain ‘errors’ in order to appreciate their ‘absolute’ unreality. One of those errors was reincarnation. It seemed like the strangest gosh-darned thing but at least I could see how consistent that belief was with the belief that there was life in matter!
Now I find those entire issues quite compelling as they prompt me to want to get my understanding and awareness crystal clear lest I find myself believing in the vagaries of life in matter and all its hideous complexities. After all, the belief in disease and death is not unlike the belief in reincarnation and karmic debt. Joel Goldsmith and his protegé Herb Fitch have devoted their lives to freeing us from both.
Whatever in your thought is unlike this divine Presence, Truth Itself, must yield in order that you may drink the pure water of Life and eat the spiritual meat of Truth.
T H I S . I S . W H Y . W E . N E E D
NO DETAILS PLEASE :
“This brings us to the nature of treatment or contemplative healing meditations in the Infinite Way. ●We have no concern with the name or nature of a problem. Whether it is physical, mental, moral, or financial, it is all the same. We are not trying to do anything to the problem.● All we are going to do is to bring ourselves to the consciousness of the spirit of the Lord, the realization of God’s presence because, when we attain that, liberty and freedom from all discord for ourselves and for those who are attuned to our consciousness will be found. “
Joel Goldsmith
The Only Freedom
Chapter 10
If I, Robin, were to fill your mind with all the unfair issues I am contending with, I’d undoubtedly pull you down further than you are now. Let’s always agree on my page that NO DETAILS of error is the only way. Let’s see each other as God sees us without wavering. Tysm.
You must remember that the greatest power on earth, in heaven, or in hell is the power of love; but love is not an emotion, and love is not a word. Love can never be expressed in words. Love is an act. As a matter of fact, the very words, “I love you,” can be covering up the opposite. A spoken word of love has no more relationship to love than speaking the word God has any relationship to God. No one is ever going to know God by saying, “God,” and no one is ever going to love by saying, “Love.”
Love is an act, and it is not only an act, it is a series of acts. It must be love in action, which means care, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, consideration, cooperation, and benevolence. It was expressed by Paul in that same way when he said that of all the things that are important, the greatest is love. Yes, the greatest is love; but not the word “love,” the act of love.
How do we know this from scripture? The Master said very little about love, except to admonish us to love the Lord with all our heart and to love our neighbor as ourselves; but he said a great deal about love in action when he spoke of forgiveness, when he taught the importance of feeding the hungry, healing the sick, visiting the prisoner in prison, consoling the mourner. None of this had anything to do with speech: this all had to do with action.
“For I was an hungred, 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.” Matthew 25:35, 36
If we look at the life of Jesus, we will see that when the woman sinned, he forgave her; when the multitudes were hungry, he fed them; when Lazarus was dead, he raised him up; and all this had nothing to do with words. It all had to do with acts.
Metaphysicians have foolishly believed that when they think, declare, or read prayers, affirmations, or treatments, there will be an answer from God. But there is no answer from God except in the fulfillment of the laws of God. It is not enough to sit back and desire that we be healed. It is not sufficient that we sit back and desire that the Lord God come down out of His holy temple and provide for us. It is not going to happen that way.
As we open ourselves to the vision and the realization of God, we have to act as if we were children of God and put into operation the laws of God. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” These words are not prayers: they are commands, and when those commands are obeyed, fulfillment takes place. Prayer is an activity: it is the activity of the soul, the mind, and the body. All three have to work together in fulfilling the commandments.
J. S. Goldsmith: Living By The Word. Chapter Seven: Scripture as a Way of Life; Love as an Act; Kindle: page 139-141
NO PERSONAL STORIES, NO DETAILS, NO PERSONALITIES, JUST HEALING ●○●○●○●○●○
Now I want to explain one reason why we never treat a person, why we never give a treatment to any person. If anything in my writings has led to the belief that I would ever give a treatment to any person, let me correct that concept now. ..I have never given a treatment to anyone, and I have never directed my thought to a person. I have never addressed the individual consciousness of any person.
Never have I said, “You are spiritual; you are perfect; you are God’s child.” Never have I allowed the name of a patient to come into my thought while I was “treating.” Never have I allowed the face, or thought, or outline of any face or body, to come into my treatment. I do not, I cannot, give a treatment until the person asking for help is completely out of my thoughts.
My treatment is based on lifting thought up to God and on eliminating any sense of person. I jump, as fast as I know how, up to the word God: I lift my thought over the person’s head, not because God is up there, but because for me it eliminates personality and person, and then I am in God. Then I come out from God, and let flow out whatever truth I know about God-all the truth I know about God. I never connect it with any individual.
And the reason is this: God is the only individual in the world. God is infinite individuality; God is the only place, the only person, the only power. God is the only reality.
If I turned away from God, I would be treating an illusion.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Consciousness Unfolding:
God Revealing the Infinity of Being
N O T . R E S P O N S I B L E — JSG
Good morning…I had two wonderful unfoldments this morning, that was at four or five o’clock, and both of them are going to be helpful to you, more especially those who in some way have the responsibility of practice.
The first one was that I had been carrying a load of responsibility, almost you might say as if God’s work were my responsibility and I was responsible for seeing that it came through well. Now it isn’t something you do voluntarily or consciously, it‘s something that creeps up on you with anxiety in your work, and all of a sudden the unfoldment came: God is responsible for Its activity, you just be the vehicle, the instrument, and drop that responsibility for its success, and that took a big load off my shoulders.
1953 Second New York Practitioner Class
Joel S. Goldsmith
56A – Teaching and Healing From the Soul
Joel must’ve been reading my diary except for three things: • He wouldn’t know where it was. • He passed on 50+ years ago. • I don’t have a diary. He said that very serious seekers of higher level consciousness often have some unhealed issues and that he was glad for his own unhealed issues coz they kept him on track. Can you imagine that – Joel Goldsmith going off track? I never could have imagined it until I thought of yours truly – me. I’ve been glued to the grindstone all my life. Oh, I’ve done stuff but could never go astray very much. Joel said for him being 80% was perfect. His 80% has blessed the world beyond belief. I myself am quite content at 70% – that’s about how much I’d trust my ‘self’.
Every one of us has a Something within him that enables him to rise above the limitations of his humanhood. It does take recognition of It. It takes stick-to-itiveness. And oftentimes after we have learned that It exists, we do not work hard enough to maintain It. But the fact of the matter is that we all have that Spirit in us. The major factor lies in the word “recognition.” Sometime or other we must recognize that there is this Something within us, Something not only greater than our human limitations, but Something great enough to lift us out of and above them. Then we must rely on It, learn to listen to It, learn to give It room in our consciousness to operate and to function.
LIVING BETWEEN
TWO WORLDS
by Joel Goldsmith
