Cleansing the Temple

IW Morsel – God’s Work Is Done

God’s work is done, finished and complete, but it is unfolding to our conscious awareness in proportion as we learn the truth and how to bring ourselves into harmony with that truth.

The Art of Spiritual Healing

P.20

By Joel Goldsmith

From – Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture

By Joel Goldsmith

P. 162

Excerpt – Cleansing the Temple

When you realize God, Soul or Spirit as the only causative Principle, you likewise understand that all that exists is of that eternal substance and is therefore immortal. This understanding constitutes your spiritual awareness of Life and its formations, and when you have achieved this understanding, you will never lose your supply or your body, you will have attained eternal Life here and now and there will be no more death or passing, or even disease, for you.

In building this new consciousness you are building the Temple “not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” This Temple you cannot build with materials other than the pure substance of Spirit. You cannot build with human qualities of evil, nor even with human qualities of good. You cannot build it with wrong thinking, but no more can you build it with right thinking. Human thought will not build this infinite eternal spiritual edifice. Human thought is finite and changeable, and it cannot result in an indestructible and immortal structure.

The Temple of God which is your body, and which is also the body of all that concerns your individual existence, is not visible to “man whose breath is in his nostrils.” The real body, or Temple of your existence, is seen only with spiritual vision, even as it is built and maintained only by spiritual consciousness.

You do not have to declare that you have attained this consciousness; it is evident to the world by the harmonies, joys, peace and dominion you show forth in daily living. Your spiritual attainment is evident by its effects which are seen as health, success, poise and peace. Even that which the world sees as your physical body will be apparent as health, vitality, youthfulness and beauty. That which the world sees as your supply will be evident as abundance and security. That which the world sees as your home will reflect love, compatibility, companionship. In other words, that which you receive in secret, in spiritual consciousness, will be shouted from the housetops as visible evidence—and yet you will utter no word with your mouth.

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