IW Morsel – Meditation Is Fruitless
All meditation on God is fruitless, unless we realize that what is true of God is true of us as infinite individual being.
From – The Art of Meditation
By Joel Goldsmith
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What About This Body? – Part 4 of 4
Chapter 9
Even though this is not always easy to do, and despite the temptation to dwell on the appearance, recognize it as suggestion, or hypnotism, and turn immediately to God: Keep your treatment up in that circle called God and let your knowing be the truth about God. There is no truth about a physical body because it is only a concept. God is the animating principle or law of all that is. Do not pass over that statement too lightly because daily and hourly you will encounter the laws of “this world.” Your treatment is that God is law:
God, being infinite, law is infinite. Therefore, the only law that there can be is a spiritual law, and that spiritual law is the only law operative in individual experience, animating being and body. There is no physical law, mental law, or moral law to be overcome. I recognize only one law, and that is the infinite law of God, eternally and infinitely omnipresent. The law which is God is the all-power; It does not have to contend with other laws. It is itself the only law and the all-law, a spiritual law, besides which there are no material laws, no moral laws, no mental laws, and no physical laws. There is only one law and that law is God.
Do not try to overcome material law, mental law, moral law – any law. Always recognize that you are dealing with but one law. Anything to the contrary that may be there is but a material sense of law. As you recognize spiritual law as the only law, all other claims of law disappear.
The moment a problem of any nature is presented immediately bring to consciousness the nature of the claim as material sense, or hypnotism. Then the word God must come into consciousness simultaneously so as to blot out the entire picture of people, conditions, or circumstances.
I remember a call that came from someone who had fallen afoul of a patch of poison ivy and was displaying the usual symptoms from having gotten into such a predicament. Quickly it came, so quickly that it was not a conscious thought, that since God made all that was made, God was the constituent element or property of all that existed, and therefore, the only effect could be something consonant with the nature of God.
According to appearances and according to human belief, there are properties that are unlike the good we associate with God; and there is no use denying that, because insofar as the human picture is concerned it is quite obvious. However, in The Infinite Way, you are not dealing with appearances. The very essence of treatment in this teaching is: “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” If you judge after appearances, you will be involved with the powers of this world.
Do not deny the appearance of physical discord, but acknowledge God as the substance of all form. God is always appearing as the substance of form whether that form appears as a rosebush or as poison ivy. Unless you have trained yourself by persistent practice in looking through the appearance, you may find it difficult to realize that God is the animating principle of everything that exists. The appearance may be called poison ivy, a rose, or a tumor, but there is no “it.” The truth is that God is the substance and law of all that is.
When you can see through the appearance to God as the substance of the form, you will not be afraid to look at either poison ivy or tumors, because then you will understand that these are but a misinterpretation of that indestructible substance which is untouched by sin, disease, fear, worry, hate, envy, jealousy, or malice. This indestructible substance contains within itself the power of self-creation and self-maintenance. Make it a matter of daily realization.
My body has neither qualities nor quantities of good or of evil. It has neither sickness nor health, is neither large nor small, has neither life nor death: My body is the temple of God, God-substance expressed as form and embodying and including all the qualities and quantities which constitute God, the I Am, the Soul. My body has neither youth nor age: It is as ancient as God and as young as each new day.
My body is not governed by laws of matter or of mind, but by the grace of God, for “thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory.” God is the light of my body. In my body is neither material darkness nor mental ignorance, for God is the light unto His holy temple, which my body is. God unfolds, discloses, and reveals Himself as body – as temple, a place of holiness and peace. God’s grace maintains and sustains His body, which my body is.
End Part 4 of 4