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Revealing the Spiritual Nature of Our Being

We do not want to make the mistake of denying matter or mind. But let us understand that there is no good matter or bad matter, and there is no good mind or bad mind: there is only unconditioned mind without qualities of good or evil because God is unconditioned Being. There cannot be a good God or an evil God; and therefore there cannot be good or evil in manifestation.

So it is with Spirit; Spirit is infinite and omnipresent, not good and not bad. Mind is not good or bad; it is just mind—unconditioned. When that truth becomes an integral part of our consciousness, we can look at this world and, instead of seeing a conditioned universe, we will begin to perceive it as it really is. When we can look at this universe without judgment as to what or who is good or evil, it will express back to us that which it is.

That is why, when we are with anyone who is ill, we close our eyes to the appearance and do not acknowledge him to be sick or well. Furthermore, he is not going to be any more spiritual when he is well than when he is sick. So changing him from being sick into being well is not spiritualizing him, nor is it beholding him as the Christ.

We are not interested in health as such: we are interested in the Christ of individual being, the spiritual nature of being, and that means beholding a person as neither good nor evil, but as spiritual, as the child of God. That means working with the sick, but not caring momentarily whether they are sick or well because we are busy bearing witness to the Christ of their being, that which knows neither good nor evil, that which is neither sick nor well, that which is neither young nor old. Healing work is only incidental to revealing the spiritual nature of our being which has in it qualities of neither good nor evil, qualities of neither youth nor age, qualities of neither life nor death.

Each one of us, as a spiritual being, is a manifestation of God, an actual expression of God-being. We have been given the full dominion of God, which we show forth in various ways by means of various talents or abilities. Each of these is a facet of God, and we can be full and complete, showing forth whatever our particular gift may be.

As human beings, we are not showing forth that fulfillment because we are limited by this same old belief of good and evil, youth and age, hereditary law and environment—all the limitations that have been placed upon us. But in the first realization that we have of the true nature of being, unconditioned and unfettered by beliefs of good and evil, we also find that we have become a more complete expression of God, a fuller expression of intelligence, love, joy, talent, ability, and capacity, and these grow as our own freedom increases.

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From – Realization of Oneness

By Joel Goldsmith

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The Nature of Spiritual Power

We are all hypnotized to some extent by the belief that there are good powers and bad powers, spiritual powers and material powers. To be dehypnotized means to come into some measure of agreement that there cannot be God and something besides God. There cannot be Spirit and something unlike or opposite to Spirit.

If you have caught the basic principles of this message, you will set aside one meditation period every day for the world, just as if this world were your patient, suffering from an incurable disease, and you were the transparency for the healing—not through one prayer, not by a single realization, but by the persistent, constant realization of your major principle, which is to recognize, as you look out at these forces that seem to be so destructive: “Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above.” Since God is Spirit, the only operating and operative power is spiritual power.

Some forty years ago, Charles P. Steinmetz said that the greatest discovery of the twentieth century would be the discovery of the nature of spiritual power. And today the nature of that spiritual power is being revealed.

It has been believed by the world that spiritual power is the power of God to do something to sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation. It has been believed that spiritual power is some kind of God-power that can be used. That is what has fooled the world. Well-meaning people have believed, and many still do, that by prayer they can being spiritual power down to the world, and thereby remove the sins and diseases of this world. Because of this belief they have missed the way.

Spiritual power is something that is functioning at this very moment in you. You never will be able to use it; you never will know how it functions or operates: you will only be able to witness its effect in your experience, and then only when you stop trying to use it; and let it use you, let it function in you.