The Infinite Way Letters

July 1954

By Joel Goldsmith

Part 2 of 4
The Middle Path / What to demonstrate

 

        One of the major points in the Message of The Infinite Way is that we must give up the desire for the demonstration of things—health, supply, home, harmony. Throughout scripture we are told, again and again, to first seek God” “Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee…. Lean not unto thine own understanding…. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths…. Pray without ceasing.” In other words, “seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.”

       No longer must we desire the demonstration of certain things, persons,places or conditions. Instead, we must have but one desire, and that must be to know and to realise God. This is not difficult because God is right here—“closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.” The kingdom of God is with you, and it is merely a matter of paying attention to God and knowing that He alone is what you are seeking. In seeking demonstration of person, place or thing, you are ignoring the demonstration of God, but the moment you forget the desire for outer demonstration your attention is centered on the demonstration of the realization of God.

        It is not necessary for us to chase after God as if He were far off or as if He were something difficult to attain. Many have found that as they gave up their frantic search in the realization that God was searching for them, they gave God a chance to catch up. All the time God was right there with them, saying: “Wait—why don’t you stop a minute and let Me have something to say?” The moment we learn to be still, the Voice within us says: “Be still, and know that I am God.” Always we must listen and be still, and in thatstillness we give God the chance to reveal Itself from within.

        In the human world everyone is chasing supply, and in the spiritual world supply is chasing us, but we never give it a chance to catch up with us. Supply is omnipresent. Supply is active in our consciousness, but as long as we ignore that fact we will be seeking and searching where it does not exist. Even when we seem to catch it, all we have caught is a shadow—the shadow of the substance of supply. It is only as we take the attitude of stillness, of listening, of awareness, that supply begins to pour out from within.

        By way of illustration, let us think of a child. A child awakens in the morning and expects his breakfast, lunch and dinner. He expects a home, clothing, love and care. He expects an education and vacations, and quite often he does not expect that he must be good to get them either. He gets the things whether or not he deserves them. The child does not expect these things from the neighbors or from the state. He looks to his parents and knows that they are the ones to whom he should go. We also have a Father, God, and yet that is often the last place we expect to get what is needful in our lives. We expect our supply from relatives, or positions or investments, and lately, from our government, and yet our “Heavenly Father knoweth that we have need of these things, and it is his goodpleasure to give us the kingdom.” So, it becomes a matter of relaxing andletting supply catch up with us, instead of relying on people or things in the outer.

        Supply is an activity of your own consciousness, and since God is your consciousness, you consciousness is infinite. Your consciousness embodies everything, and therefore it embodies supply.

        In the ordinary course of living our supply does seem to come through others, but it does not comefrom others; supply comes from the Father within us. This is the same Father that multiplied the loaves and fishes for Jesus, who sent manna from the sky for Moses, and provided food in the wilderness for Elias and Elijah. This same Father, Divine Consciousness, your own consciousness, provides your supply if only you can be still enough to let it come to you.

        In your struggling and striving for health and wealth we are really dishonoring God. So instead of working so hard to obtain these things, we must learn to relax and let the Health of God, the Wealth of God, and the Joy of God catch up with us. That comes about in the realization that “Thy Grace is my sufficiency.” Thy Grace—not a job, nor a bank account, but “Thy Grace” is my sufficiency. The ability to recognize God as Infinite is our Armor of Oneness.

        In the recognition of God as Infinite we recognize Power as Infinite Good Power, and therefore we have no fear of any power on earth, in heaven, or below the earth. Since God is Infinite and God is Mind, we do not fear the lack of intelligence, wisdom, guidance or direction. Since God is Infinite and God is Love, love is omnipresent, and we do not fear an absence of love, and we do not fear hate, envy, jealousy nor malice. These things exist only as shadows—they have no power. All the hate, envy, jealousy and malice in the world can harm only the person who believes in two powers: the belief of duality is the only thing that can harm him.

        There is never any need to treat disease, because disease is but a decoy. It is a belief of a power, a presence, a substance, or an activity apart from God. The minute you stop treating disease and get behind it, it disappears, but as long as you are tempted to treat disease it will remain. It is like the devil—you keep the devil in your mind even in the attempt to get rid of him. Forget the devil and put God in his place and see how quickly the devil is gone, because he never was there in the first place. The devil, like disease or lack or inharmony, is but a belief of a substance or a self-hood or an activity apart from God, and the moment you fill your consciousness with the Presence of God, that which has been calling itself error is exposed and disappears. Remember this: as you continue to treat disease or lack or inharmony, you will perpetually have them because you are holding them with you. It is only as you keep your treatment, or your consciousness, on God that all the errors of sense will disappear.

 

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