The Function Of The Christ In You (3/4)

1962 HOLLAND CLOSED CLASS TAPE 499 SIDE 1 THE FUNCTION OF THE CHRIST IN YOU By Joel Goldsmith Part 3 of As we live with these Truths, as we make these Truths our own: live with them morning, noon, and night; pray without ceasing; pray that we may feel the Presence of God within us, “speak Lord Thy servant heareth;” always inviting God to speak to us; always inviting God to impart HIMSELF to us; always inviting God to share with us. This is prayer, this is spiritual prayer, this is mystical prayer—this is the prayer that availeth much. Because … Continue reading The Function Of The Christ In You (3/4)

The Function Of The Christ In You (2/4)

1962 HOLLAND CLOSED CLASS TAPE 499 SIDE 1 THE FUNCTION OF THE CHRIST IN YOU By Joel Goldsmith Part 2 of 4 It is true that most of us, as we came to a metaphysical or spiritual [healing]… teaching, came for healing, and that seems to be perfectly legitimate—because it is one of the ways, nature has of driving us back to God. But the point that I make is, that even though we receive our healing, and many of us do receive healing even before that desire for God is awakened—we do it because of the intensity of the … Continue reading The Function Of The Christ In You (2/4)

God Has Only Itself To Give

#14 – Wisdoms of the Infinite Way Be sure that your prayer is not a desire to improve God’s universe. From the book – The Infinite Way Joel S. Goldsmith From – I Stand On Holy Ground By Joel Goldsmith Excerpt-Chapter 3 / Meditation, the Door to Fulfillment P.46 God Has Only Itself To Give Only as we seek and attain the consciousness of the presence of God does the Presence go before us and draw all things to us. There is no way, really, of using God to attain our purpose, whether it is home, companionship, or supply; and … Continue reading God Has Only Itself To Give

A Higher Meditation (2/2)

#13 – Wisdoms of the Infinite Way Be sure that your prayer is not an attempt to influence God. From the book – The Infinite Way Joel S. Goldsmith From – Tape 604-1 1951 Second Portland Series / A Higher Meditation – Part 2 By Joel Goldsmith And so, we learn from these experiences, from these illustrations, that the Master was taking us back to the invisible realm, to that which no man has ever seen, heard, tasted, touched, or smelled with the physical senses, but which any man may perceive with his inner spiritual faculties, and there learn, not … Continue reading A Higher Meditation (2/2)

Higher Meditation

IW Morsel – Human Mind Cannot Know God cannot be known with the human mind, but if we listen and are still, in that stillness, God reveals Itself. Right where we are God Is. From – The Art of Meditation By Joel Goldsmith P. 40 From – Tape 604-1 1951 Second Portland Series A Higher Meditation – Part 1 By Joel Goldsmith This is Joel in Portland. We’re still in the midst of the Second Portland Series. The subject tonight is a higher meditation, and the thought for this came from a note in my notebook. How can we look … Continue reading Higher Meditation

The Nature Of God (5/5)

1959 San Diego Special Class Tape 269 Side 1 The Nature of God By Joel Goldsmith Part 5 of 5 Now, illumination isn’t anything of a material nature or even of an occult nature. Illumination really means light, the receiving of light, and light doesn’t mean light in the physical sense but in the mental. It means understanding, awareness. Therefore, when you are illumined, it means only that you have received the actual experience of knowing God’s presence, knowing God’s grace. There is nothing emotional about it, I can assure you. Those who look for emotional experiences not only miss … Continue reading The Nature Of God (5/5)

The Nature of God (4/5)

1959 San Diego Special Class Tape 269 Side 1 The Nature of God By Joel Goldsmith Part 4 of 5 I wrote a book review on a book which was written by a minister in which he said he made experiments with plants and found that prayer would help to grow them and that prayer could be used to destroy them. And you know, of course, that that’s not true. There isn’t one of you here who has any right to believe that because you must know that prayer concerns God. You must know that prayer is an activity that … Continue reading The Nature of God (4/5)

The Nature of God (3/5)

1959 San Diego Special Class Tape 269 Side 1 The Nature of God compBy Joel Goldsmith Part 3 of 5 Now, I have had experience in mental institutes with mental patients. I have had experience in prisons, and so I speak to you from 30 years of experience when I say that if you or any of your friends or relatives are in sin, don’t try to stop it or correct it but, rather, see if you cannot awaken in them or yourself a desire to know God because that’s all that’s necessary. When the realization of God takes place … Continue reading The Nature of God (3/5)

The Nature of God (2/5)

1959 San Diego Special Class Tape 269 Side 1 The Nature of God By Joel Goldsmith Part 2 of 5 Probably one of the reasons that our great Herbert Hoover has reached this magnificent age of 85 in full possession of his faculties and at the very height of his mental capacities and in good physical health is due to the fact that all of his life he has felt that it was a demand upon him personally and upon all mankind to help those who at the moment could not help themselves – even when they were enemies. He … Continue reading The Nature of God (2/5)

#11 – Wisdoms of the Infinite Way Prayer is the absence of desire in the recognition of IS. From – Tape 705-1 1955 Johannesburg Closed Class The Inner Meaning By Joel Goldsmith Good Evening! (Response) I have been asked if there is a way in which we can train ourselves to practice the presence of God, some simple way that everyone on the face of the globe could practice. And there is such a way. It is a way that has very, very deep possibilities. And yet it is so simple that it can be taught to a six-year old … Continue reading