Infinite Way Letter
1964 – October
Aka – Realization of Oneness
By Joel Goldsmith
Part 1 of 5
“It Shall Not Come Nigh Thee”
If you have studied the preceding chapters carefully, you should be beginning to understand that the universal belief of good and evil operates hypnotically upon every person in the world. Every phase of discord that comes into any person’s experience is a mesmeric influence from which he has not learned to protect himself. What with automobile collisions, sudden storms, and even coconuts falling from the trees, a person who leaves his home in the morning has no positive assurance that he will return safely at night.
Every morning of the week, safety engineers forecast approximately how many accidental deaths will occur that day. They cannot tell who will be the victims. But those casualties could be you or me or anyone else. Man has become a statistic. But no one wants to be a statistic. No one wants to fall victim to an accident.
How, then can such mishaps and catastrophes be avoided? Is there a way? Yes, there most certainly is, if those who have been taught the principles of one power, impersonalization, and ‘Nothingization” can break through their mental inertia in the morning to the extent of consciously realizing:
There is but one Power operating in this universe. It is not a power of accident, death, disease, or sin. This Power is the same Power that causes the sun to rise and to set at its appointed time, and the tides to ebb and flow. The Power that is operating in this universe is the same Power that is operating in my consciousness, and It operates as the law unto my experience.
There is no power in any mesmeric suggestion of accident. There is no power in any belief of infection or contagion. There is no power in the carnal mind, in any of its forms, or in any of its beliefs, individual or collective.
“A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.” To whom does that refer? To whom but the person who dwells “in the secret place of the most High”—not one who dwells in a house, not one who dwells in an automobile or an airplane, but one who dwells “in the secret place of the most High.”
End Part 1