1959 New York Closed Class
Tape 289, Side 1
The Infinite Way Principles of God –
The Fabric of Being –
Impersonalization & Nothingization
By Joel Goldsmith
Part 2 of 5

A couple of years ago, a magazine, a national magazine in this country raised the same question and they asked a very prominent minister and a rabbi and a priest to answer that question, and they evidently picked the wrong people. They picked three who didn’t know any of the answers because all three were in agreement that we don’t know the answer. We just know that God in His infinite goodness has decreed these things. Fine God, huh? I know you’d love him around your children. Eager to meet him? – Not in this world or the next! No, there’s no truth in that; God is of too pure eyes to behold inequity. If God were aware of one single tiny little bit of a simple cold, he’d be up all night taking care of it. So does God love his creation. No, there is an answer, and the answer is this: God is where God is realized. The fact that God is does not prevent all of these iniquities on earth. The Master never said that truth would make you free. He said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” Ye shall know the truth!
Now, I’m sure that everyone in this classroom has either been the means of healing, or has received healing by metaphysical or spiritual means; and, therefore, you will understand when I say to you that for that healing, you had to go to a metaphysician or spiritual healer; you couldn’t have gone down to the gas station on the corner. Why? Why? Wasn’t God at the gas station on the corner, or in the drugstore, the stationary store? Certainly, certainly God was there. There wasn’t anyone there knowing the truth. Oh, you may sometimes in one of those places find one or two. I was speaking of those where they aren’t. Yes, God is, and God is here where we are, but, first of all, remember: If you could, at this minute select for yourself the practitioner you would like to have to meet your problems, you’d all be in agreement and say, “I will take Jesus Christ,” and I don’t blame you. But now tell me why, why Jesus Christ? And the answer is because so far as we know, he was the most realized man, the most God realized individual; and, therefore, wherever he was, even close enough to touch the hem of his robe, there was bound to be healing.
From my unfoldment I would say that if I had to choose a second, I think I’d go to Gautama the Buddha. I think he was a well-realized individual, probably the closest to the Master of all I know in recorded history, and I think that we’d get fine healing there; but here, too, is a God realized individual. So it is in our modern day, those practitioners who are doing the best work consistently over the years are those who are the most God-realized.
There are those . . . I’m sure every one of you knows some, who live and move and have their being in God, with God, under God’s grace, and it is to those that you would first go for healing. I’m sure you know others who are not quite that deep in God because of human obligations, family obligations, obligations of one nature or another that does not permit them to give themselves wholly and completely into the atmosphere of God. But if you couldn’t have those first practitioners, you would go to them next, and so on down the line.
And so the point is this: There is only sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation on earth because there isn’t God-realization, and where there is God-realization, there is less of sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation. And it will not be too long before the entire barrier is removed from human consciousness which separates mankind from the Garden of Eden before the fall.
In this Garden of Eden, actual or symbolic, we have before us a life of harmony into which no discords enter – nothing that defileth or maketh a lie. Then into this beautiful Eden, there comes a belief in two powers, symbolically expressed as “eating of the fruit of the knowledge, good and evil.” Actually, in just plain ordinary everyday business English, “a belief in good and evil or two powers.”
Now, the Edenic consciousness is your consciousness and mine before we accept two powers. With a belief in two powers, we are outside the Garden of Eden, earning our living by the sweat of our brow, living in pain, discord, and inharmony. Produced by what? The belief in two powers.
Then, the return to the Father’s house – the return to the Garden of Eden – Because with that barrier removed – the belief in two powers – tis a process of eliminating from thought that intruding universal belief in two powers. In proportion as this is accomplished, we have God-realized men and women. he realization can take place. No one on the face of the earth can attain God realization and at the same time have a belief in two powers – at least not to the extent of mankind as a whole. It lessens; it lessens. True we don’t know anyone on the face of the earth who has completely demonstrated the total elimination of the belief of good and evil; but we’re not interested at the moment in the subject of rising from sight, but rather remaining in the world but not of it.
Now, to say to you that this is a revelation, that the belief in two powers is the barrier separating us from our God-given harmony is nice, good; but it isn’t going to solve your problem. Your problem is solved, the immediate problem, if you find the practitioner who has worked with that principle until they have attained a measure of that consciousness which no longer fears, hates, or loves evil. And in proportion to their attainment of this, your problem is met; but that doesn’t solve your life problem. Your life problem is solved when you, as an individual, begin to work with this problem so that, let us say, you are faced with a specific problem . . . well we’ll just take this simple one of this month’s weather, claims of colds or grippe; and let us begin with it. And as this claim of power – evil power, destructive power, sickening power – comes to our attention, let us inwardly, silently always, realize the non-power of anything that does not emanate from God. In other words, “Thou couldest have no power unless it came from God.”
Remember that in your first year of piano lessons you’re not expected to give any concerts in this hall; and so in your first months of working with this principle of non-power, you’re not expected to overcome all of the problems of your life or those of your family or friends; you’re expected only to begin, to make a start because it is not your intellectual agreement with this principle that does the work, but the attaining of the actual consciousness of this truth; and that comes with practice.

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