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 3 of 5

Or we may take the subject of supply which at times is distressing to us at some period or other on our journey; and if that is confronting us or someone close to us, we can realize that there are no forces and no powers of mind or matter that can possibly interfere with God’s law. God’s law is abundance.
I found that out one time, while going through a temporary period of limitation. I was driving through the country in the spring of the year when the peach blossoms and the apple blossoms were in bloom, and all of a sudden I became aware of them and was tempted to count them. And, of course, you can imagine what hits the eye when you look out and see mile after mile after mile of these apple blossoms, pear blossoms, peach blossoms, billions of them, hundreds of billions of them, and then you think to yourself, “What possible difference could it make to God whether they are blossoms or actual pieces of fruit or dollar bills?” There must be just as many billions and tens of billions of everything as there is of blossoms. And then you become aware of the fact that limitation exists up here, not out there. Count the blades of grass in a lawn. There’s no limitation out here. You can count the fish in the sea or the birds in the air or the cattle on a thousand hills or the gold in the earth or the diamonds or the rubies, pearls in the sea and there is no limitation; the limitation is up here.
And so as we work with this and we begin to ask, “What power is there in heaven or on earth or beneath the earth that can interfere with the activity of God?” And then we’ll discover there can’t possibly be a power apart from God, if Omnipotence is truth. And as we work with that gradually that principle becomes a living principle to us, and eventually we bear witness to it – that the only place that limitation ever existed was in the human mind. So we go from one phase of life to another with our principles, and gradually develop a whole new consciousness.
Now, before we come to these subjects of individual problems of life, I want to bring to your attention that which you must consider to be the major principle in healing work. This, I tell you in advance, is contradictory to every religious teaching on the face of the globe; definitely contradictory to all philosophy, and yet it is the supreme truth of all ages. Evil, regardless of its name or nature or form, evil is not personal; and you never will find an evil in any individual on the face of the globe. It isn’t there; and all of the attempts, whether on a couch or off, to find evil in an individual must fail. It isn’t there to be found. This has been one of the tragedies of the world that this truth has been lost. All evil is impersonal! And, therefore, to free an individual of sin, false appetite, disease, lack or limitation, the first step must be to turn away from your patient and utterly disregard them. Don’t try to find out what evil or error is in their thought; don’t try to uncover error; and don’t ask them under any conditions to be better than they are; and never tell an unloving person to be loving; never tell an ungrateful person to be grateful; never tell an unjust person to be just; never try to get an individual humanly, to improve themselves for they can’t do it. They don’t have the capacity. If they had the capacity to be better, they’d be better. They don’t have that capacity.
Twice today, in answering my mail, I had to say to wives who wrote me of their broken hearts because their husbands continued to break their promises about not drinking, and I had to say to both of them, “Please, don’t ask your husband to make such a nonsensical promise. He couldn’t keep it if he wanted to. I’ll say this – he does want to. I’ve never known an alcoholic yet that didn’t want to be released from it. They haven’t any such powers – never have had, never will have. Don’t ask them to make a promise not to drink, because they can’t keep it – there’s no way for them to keep it of themselves.”
Remove the condemnation from them and realize that this evil is not of them. This has nothing to do with them. This has to do with the universal belief in two powers – this is absolutely impersonal. And watch, as soon as you have released them from judgment, condemnation, criticism, when they can’t any more help what they’re doing than a person in fever can help being delirious, or a person with a pain can help being in pain. Oh, everyone in pain would like to be out of it, everyone in delirium would like to be out of it, and everybody who is an alcoholic or a drug addict would like to be out of it, but don’t ask them to do it; they can’t.
That is the reason the Master never judged, never condemned, never criticized; that was the reason he could say, “Forgive seventy times seven.” But, introducing the Christ or impersonalizing the evil, you begin immediately to free your patient.
Impersonalization is the first and major principle of healing of this work. I’m assuming of course that you do know that there is one principle which you may say is ahead of it although not superior to it, and that is the realization of God constituting individual being; God as the law unto all being; God as the life; God as the substance; God as the all-in-all of individual being; God constitutes all being. You may set that up as the first Infinite Way principle, but not the most important. The most important is the second one – impersonalizing.
Now, I know how many metaphysicians have used that approach of, “You are spiritual and you are perfect.” Looking at the individual they were saying it to, you could hardly believe it. Or saying, “You ought to be more loving, or you ought to be more just, or you ought to be more something or other,” and then looking at them and saying, “I know you’d like to be if you could be.” What a waste of time to tell you what you ought to be. How do I know all this? Because I know what a waste of time it is to tell me to be different than I am. What I am – I am; and what I was in the past, I was; and telling me that it isn’t so good isn’t going to make me change it. First place, I’ll probably not believe it.
I actually have had that experience, you know, of noticing someone who really, really wanted to be set right, and saying, “Well you know from a human standpoint, this is really the thing that you have to correct.”
“How can you say that? That’s the one thing I haven’t got!”
And you’ve had that same experience. It is inevitable because we can’t see our own faults; we can’t see our own inadequacies, and to try to tell us to be rid of them, that’s next thing to sacrilege.

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