IW Morsel – Only To Listen
We do not go to God to tell him what claim or what disease is to be removed, or what sin or what limitation or lack, nor do we go to God to explain our need for money or employment. We go to God for one purpose—to hear the still, small voice.
From-Rising In Consciousness
By Joel Goldsmith
P.21

From – Living by Grace
By Joel Goldsmith
P. 98-99
Spiritual Discernment
Unless you have spiritual discernment, words are meaningless. You must therefore develop your spiritual discernment so that you will instinctively and automatically know the meaning of esoteric language.
For example, the word within does not mean within something. It does not mean within the body. Before the Master Jesus used the word within, God was thought of as being in heaven, up on a cloud where Moses went. God was thought of as something to be attained or discovered or reached on a holy mountain or in a holy temple. The Master Jesus used the word within to bring God down from the clouds and make God closer to you than breathing and nearer than hands and feet, and yet not inside your body. Solomon said that as big and as wonderful and as holy and as dedicated as his great temple in Jerusalem was, it could not contain God. Now, then, how can your body contain God? So, we can only understand the word within to mean within and without, up or down, filling all space, not confined or localized, and yet not separate and apart from us.
A second example: “There is a sin unto death” (2 John 5:16). Is there an unforgivable sin? In the Hebrew teachings, there are two unforgivable sins: murder and adultery. Moses killed a man, yet he became the leader of the Hebrews, their liberator, their savior. Evidently, God forgave Moses, or Moses would never have attained that height. To the woman taken in adultery, the Master Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn thee.” I can assure you that if those two sins were forgiven by God, then there is no unforgivable sin!
A third example: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4). Is it possible for a soul to die? Do you not see that it is all a matter of semantics? Then to what do these Bible references have meaning? They have meaning to the interpretations put on them by minor prophets. In the same way today, ministers and priests tell their people things that are not true and not even a part of their teaching; at the moment it helps them to maintain discipline. I remember one such case. A Roman Catholic priest told a couple who had been unable to attend mass one Sunday that there was no possibility of their being forgiven. They would have to be in purgatory for thousands of years for that one offense and that if it happened a second time, it would probably be totally unforgivable. He thought that this would drive them to attend mass for fear of eternal damnation. I am sure that many of the things that have come down to us in religious literature represent only a temporary interpretation by some one trying to enforce discipline, because no one of mystical enlightenment has ever taught that there is unforgivable sin.
Mysticism, which is conscious contact with God, always reveals: “Neither do I condemn thee.” “Though your sins be scarlet, you will be white as snow.” “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” “God’s rain falls on the just and the unjust.” Everyone who has attained conscious realization of God has received this same revelation, and it is found in the teachings of all mystics.
So do not quibble about words. Do not “strain at gnats while swallowing elephants.” Remember too: Not all that is published as truth is Truth. So, go within for spiritual meanings and unfoldment, and they will come to you. That is, go beyond words into the spirit.
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