The truth is that I am the embodiment of all the qualities of God. But how dare I make a declaration like that about myself, knowing myself humanly as I do? How dare I make that statement for myself unless I also make it for you? How dare I say that I embody all the God-qualities, that I am as eternal as God, as immortal as God, that I am the Christ- son of God? How dare I say that and leave out any individual anywhere on earth-past, present, or future-any individual in hell or in heaven? I dare not, I dare not! It would be spiritual wickedness to announce my Christhood and refuse to accept the fact that this is a universal truth. God is bidding every individual on the face of the globe to awaken to his true identity. “Awake thou that sleepest!” Christhood is our true identity, not good humanhood, not bad humanhood.

Joel Goldsmith, “The Mystical I,” Chapter 9