1953 First New York Closed Class

Joel S. Goldsmith

50B – A Meditation 3/4

Speech is our human way of interpreting the divine ideas, but the divine ideas express themselves, manifest themselves, reflect themselves within us without words. And we can say to each other, “I love you,” and we can say it better without words. If we use words, we may be misunderstood because someone may misinterpret our meaning of the word love. But if we look what we feel, if it goes as a glance from the eye, or a touch of the finger, or the bestowing of a gift, there is no misunderstanding because the nature of the love is understood in the symbol.

We hear this come right through the air: God is a very present help in trouble. Would making that statement make it so or is that statement telling us something that is already so? And so you see our prayer wouldn’t have to be a statement that God is a very present help in trouble. We could put the finger on the lips, be still and receive an assurance within us that God is on the field, that the battle is not yours, but God’s.

Where two or three are gathered in my name, I am in the midst of them. That is the fulfillment of I in him, and he in me, and I in you and you in me – all one, showing too that there is no end of individuality – never where two or more are gathered in this name: God individualizing Itself, showing forth Its qualities, character, nature as individual being.

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Amen, and let us rest for awhile in this peace.

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The spiritual teacher is to lift the consciousness of the student to the apprehension, to the discernment, of spiritual reality that the student themselves may receive impartations of God within their own being which they never could do on the human level of life. The function of the practitioner, likewise, is to lift the consciousness of the patient high enough above the storms of human sense to where they too may feel the divine harmonies flooding their being and body. But in our way of living, it becomes the function, the duty, the responsibility, the privilege of every individual to lift the world in some measure above its present low level of consciousness.

In other words, I, if I be lifted up, shall draw all men unto me. Now this is not a task. This is not labor. There is no effort to it at all because you don’t have to reach out there to ninety people and lift them up. All you have to do is retire into your own sanctuary, into your own inner being, and find this peace. And the moment that you have found this peace your household, and all those who are attuned to you take on a measure of it in proportion to their receptivity. Certain it is that some may hold themselves outside of it. That you may know that I am in him, and that he is in me, it is given to you to experience this peace and this calm. But it is likewise that you might know that your being in him, and his being in you is the same peace be still to those who are of your household, of your consciousness.

Now just as there may be a thousand men outside this door (or women) who do not feel one single bit of the divine calm that has descended upon us – and you know it isn’t because the calm and peace isn’t here – it is because they hold themselves outside its influence. So they could be right here in this room – many of them – and not feel it, because their sense, their soul-sense, would not be receptive to the voice of God. And so you may have those in your family circle, in your friendship circle or business circle, who will despite all of the lifting up that you do may for awhile at least hold themselves outside of its influence. But the time will come when every knee will bend. The time will come when every man will be taught of God.

It is not up to you to be concerned who responds to your elevated consciousness. It is not my concern whether those here respond to it or if some withhold themselves from it. My function is to be so lifted in consciousness that all those who are here may partake of the bread, the spiritual bread, the wine, and the water. Not that it may be forced upon anyone – but that everyone with open consciousness may receive it.