1959 New York Closed Class
Tape 293 Side 1

Advanced Instruction In Healing
By Joel Goldsmith

Part 5 of 5

 

        Now after you have completed that part of your remembrance – your treatment, your meditation, call it prayer if you like, as long as you’re not thinking of prayer as a going to God and expecting God to do something that God isn’t already doing. When you have done that, then you are still faced with whatever the seeming problem is. Your recognition or realization of God and God’s allness may not have resulted in healing or reformation or supply, or whatever the nature of your unfoldment may be. And therefore, you come to the first, it’s our second principle, but it’s the most important part of the principle that deals with our healing work, and it is this: Error isn’t personal; therefore it has nothing to do with you, or with your patient, or with your student; and you need not try to improve your patient, or correct him or psychologize him. Don’t try to make him a better human being when you’re trying to heal him; if he could be a [better] human being he’d be it without your help.

        Now drop your patient, your disease, your sin, from your thought while you realize that this problem that is confronting you is an effect. Now remember that. It is an effect! An effect of what? Wrong thinking? No! An effect of sin? No! An effect of heredity? No! An effect of something in your body? No! It is an effect of carnal mind – the belief in two powers.

        Impersonalize your evil instantly. It helps me always, if I’m stuck with something that seems to be resisting my knowing of the truth, it helps me just to say, “Paul made a terrible mistake. He said carnal mind was enmity against God, and that’s the biggest mistake in the Bible.” Carnal mind isn’t enmity against God; God hasn’t any enemies; God is infinite. The carnal mind is the impersonal source of evil, but it isn’t a power. It is a belief in two powers – a universal belief in two powers, which we by virtue of having been born, we accept.

        Now, there is no such thing as a carnal mind; there is no such thing as a mortal mind; not only that, no surgeon will ever find one in you, but neither will a psychologist or a psychiatrist, nor will they ever be able to put their finger on one. There is no such thing as a carnal mind or a mortal mind

        That which is termed carnal mind or mortal mind is a universal belief in two powers. It goes back to the Garden of Eden. We weren’t human beings until Adam and Eve accepted two powers – good and evil; we were what we right now in our true being are. We were then and we are now the Christ, the spiritual Son of God – God the Father and God the Son, and we are God the Son. We are spiritual beings – one with God. But entertaining the belief in two powers, we are thrown out of the Garden of Eden where we now have to earn our living by the sweat of our brow, and suffer the sins and diseases of the flesh – none of which would be true if we could heal ourselves of this belief in two powers. And that’s what healing amounts to. Healing ourselves first of the belief in two powers and then by virtue of our having been healed, heal others. Physician, heal thyself first. Don’t start telling someone else a lot of metaphysical truths or clichés until in a measure you can demonstrate them.

        First, awaken yourself to the point of realization, so that when you are confronted with a problem, you can say to it, “Oh, carnal mind!” and turn over and go to sleep because having said carnal mind, you’ve said the arm of flesh or nothingness. You haven’t said, “Carnal mind – now how shall I destroy it?” You haven’t said, “Oh, disease is an illusion – how shall I get rid of the illusion?” Oh no, you have done what you would do on the desert after you have realized this isn’t water up ahead, this is a mirage. You don’t turn around and say, “Well now, I must get a pail and get rid of the mirage.” No, while it was water you may have thought of getting pails, but once you have perceived that it is mirage, you start your car and go forward because you’re not afraid of a mirage. You were only afraid of water on the road, but not of mirage.

        So in your metaphysical practice, you will never be afraid of any case of any nature that has lasted for any duration once you have stopped the habit of treating it as if it were a disease and then saying, “Well now, I’m young in this. I could take a cold and heal it, but a cancer, umph – I haven’t enough understanding.” Well you haven’t enough understanding to treat a pimple! If you are going to treat a disease, go out and get yourself a diploma from a medical school, and get a license to practice, but don’t undertake, without the benefit as we do . . . without the benefit of a legal license; don’t attempt to heal anyone of a cold; it may develop into pneumonia and you’ll be pretty sorry.

        We are not healers of disease. One of the very first principles in this work that revealed itself to me in the form of an inner illumination was this. You cannot meet a problem on the level of a problem.Now this has been my shibboleth from way back in nineteen thirty-two. You cannot meet a problem on the level of a problem. So, if somebody comes to you with a disease . . . no let’s start with a, an easier one. Someone comes to you or phones to you from the desert that they have a claim of water on the road. If you believe that you can help them remove water from the road, the blind leading the blind. When you can turn from the sight of water on the road, and realize, “No, no, no, I’ll never meet it that way, and now Father how will I meet it?”; and then comes the answer, “That’s a mirage.” Oh and then, you say to your friend “Drive on, drive on, you’re healed; the water’s removed.” If you try to treat a cold as a cold, you’ll find it’ll get the best of you.

        Once you can realize, in spite of Miss Stein, who says that “A rose is a rose is a rose,” don’t you believe that a cold is a cold is a cold. A cold is a belief in two powers; that there is God and another power. And once you have realized that and said to it, “That’s the arm of flesh,” you haven’t treated it as a cold; you’ve treated it as the arm of flesh, or nothingness. Then, there’s one of my Hebrews who I like – Mr. Hezekiah . . . Now you can rest in that word, rest in that word – the enemy with all their strength, the arm of flesh. And as long as we have the Lord God, we have Omnipotence. So we have no worry about the arm of flesh; we have no worry about temporal power. When you are confronted with fevers . . . oh, don’t try to reduce them; don’t ask the patient an hour later, “Has it come down any?” You need a medical license. A fever isn’t a fever. It is a temptation to you to believe in two powers; it is a temptation to believe that God isn’t the substance of all form; it is a temptation to believe that God isn’t Omnipotence; that there is some power now that you’re going to call on God to do something to.

        When someone calls for help on supply, above all things don’t try to get it for them. The problem isn’t supply; the problem isn’t lack. The Master answered that, “Man shall not live by bread alone.” So when someone wants supply say, “I’m not interested in getting it for you, because man doesn’t live by supply alone.” What does he live by? Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Oh, well now, let’s forget supply and let’s forget lack. Let’s find some word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God and pretty soon we’ll hear: Son thou art ever with Me; all that I have is thine; before Abraham was I was with you; and I’ll be with you until the end of the world; I will never leave you nor forsake you. And then you can rest in that word. You don’t have to worry about supply; you have the assurance of God’s presence, and with the assurance of God’s presence is far greater than all the supply that was ever laid up in storehouses.

        You see, until you begin to understand that in The Infinite Way we know nothing about reducing fevers or growths; we know nothing about removing growths; we know nothing about polio – not a thing. It was only because I’m so sure of this principle; I ought to be after thirty years. But, it is only because of that, that I undertook a few years ago to show in England that we could heal mongoloid babies. And we have three of them in school – children that couldn’t walk, children that couldn’t think – three of them in school.

        There is no such thing as a claim that cannot be met, if you rightly understand these principles – not because you memorize them. Don’t forget, I’m not a believer in memorizing. Learn the substance of this, and then develop your consciousness with it even if you have to start with just headaches or colds or pimples. And as your own depth of consciousness evolves, you’ll find that you have no fear when the major problems of life touch you.

        And now we’re going to have a rest.

 

End Part 5