Have you been pretty good for quite awhile? Got your mind stayed on God longer than you’ve done in a long time? Wonderful thoughts flooded your consciousness and you were soaring with the angels? What now?
Think about what it means to live forever in the Fourth Dimension. To have not a care in the world coz the world doesn’t exist in the Fourth Dimension. To observe all your former petty concerns slipping away and all those unresolved issues melting into their native nothingness. To look with such tender love and affection (not looking down upon) on every single person who comes to mind. To be filled with God’s loving-kindness and joy!
Think about the fact that everything God is you are! Wow! I mean WOW !! Let that be your full-time occupation. Take a synonym for God, like Omnipresence: you are as omnipresent as God!!! That alone could keep you busy for years. You’re Omniscience too. There’s nothing you don’t know, but you’ve been sleeping. Wakey-wakey! Oh, and Omnipotence too! Now don’t go crazy with that one and think this is your chance to punch So-and-so in the eye! That thought — while very funny — was also your crashing descent out of the Fourth Dimension and smack dab in the middle of the (Ugh!) Third!
It’s not that God doesn’t have a sense of humor, it’s that you were perfectly willing to let humor sabotage your VERY FRAGILE COMMITMENT to Fourth Dimensional living. We gotta be careful. We need to backtrack now.
Imagine You everywhere at the same time! Omigoodness gracious! That’s what God is. Imagine You infinitely powerful, infinitely aware, conscious of all that has any claim to reality. And all this is happening right here and now where those around you see … you.
From – The Mystical I
By Joel Goldsmith
P. 136 The Purpose of The Infinite Way
Once again let me remind you that the function of The Infinite Way is not merely the healing of disease or the overcoming of sin or of lack. It is rising out of the three-dimensional consciousness, out of the consciousness of good and of evil, into the Fourth Dimension, the illumined consciousness which is aware of the things of God. In this fourth-dimensional realm, you are in an area of consciousness where you not only know the things of God, but you receive the things of God, and you live under the law of God. This is Grace.
The Master, who of all persons was best known for his realized state of Christ-consciousness, used as his principle “resist not evil” and “put up…thy sword,” which is a recognition that there is no power out in the world, nothing to fight. He understood the non-power of the world of effect.
You, too must lay the ax to the root, and the root of all evil is the universal belief in two powers, what Paul called “the carnal mind,” the mind of good and evil. Once you understand the principle that all evil is impersonal and that it does not have its rise in any individual, you will begin to have the secret of healing work and the secret of world work, because you will not attach the sin, the disease, the struggle for power, the wrong thinking, or any other thing to an individual.
That which is anti-Christ, or so-called evil, is the carnal mind, the universal belief in two powers, which constitutes a universal hypnotism. When you have thus impersonalized and recognized the nothingness of this universal belief, you have lifted your consciousness closer to the Christ-consciousness, and then you will discover why you do not have to resist evil. God is not in the whirlwind. Power is not in the evil condition. Power, God, is in the “still small voice.” Do you want God? Do you want God-power? Do you want God’s grace? Then be still! And when the still small voice speaks, you have it. What happens when you are in the inner stillness is that the presence of God is realized, and it does the work, whatever the nature of that work is.
The importance of this principle is far greater than you can imagine. The realization of God is not so that you or anyone else should find health, abundance, or happiness. Be assured that God has no interest in that at all. If, in The Infinite Way, there were ten thousand or a hundred thousand of us who really attained health, wealth, and happiness, it would still not be too great an accomplishment, since there are millions and millions of people on earth and more being born every day. So our individual regeneration would be practically meaningless.
It is only insofar as the light coming to you and to me is permitted to be shown forth in the world that we serve any purpose on earth. We were not sent here just to become happy human beings. We were sent here on earth to glorify God, that God’s laws should be made manifest through us and that through us the world might witness the laws of God in operation, the laws that make men free.
There is a mental inertia that operates universally in this human world, preventing even those who have been taught how to prepare themselves spiritually for the day from doing so. This mental inertia makes them forget to realize God’s presence; it makes them forget to realize that mesmerism or malpractice is not spiritually ordained, and therefore is not operative in the individual consciousness that has realized the Presence. For the person, however, who does engage in daily spiritual preparation, the realization of the presence of God and the nonpower of mesmerism or malpractice nullifies the effects of universal hypnotism, and in some degree these effects are also nullified for the entire world.
It has become my habit to declare silently that while I may have this or that issue “to be healed”, I don’t wish to have my opportunity to grow spiritually simply removed, for I know that in that case another “opportunity” will come along. I only want true healing starting with the mental aspect that caused the issue in the first place.
IW Morsel – No Interest
God has no interest in your goodness and will not reward it, and God has no interest in your sins and will not punish them.
Beyond Words and Thoughts
By Joel Goldsmith
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From – Realization Of Oneness
By Joel Goldsmith
Excerpt-Chapter 1 / Pure Being Page 18
If you have not learned from the message of The Infinite Way that the only good you are ever going to receive is from within your own consciousness, then you have failed to perceive the nature of its message and mission, which is that God constitutes your consciousness and that through meditation you must draw forth from within your own consciousness the allness and the fulfillment of life.
Infinity and immortality are made manifest as the consciousness of the individual, and the name of this divine Consciousness, which is our individual consciousness, is I. You must understand that you are not to direct this I, enlighten It, plead with It, or try to be a master of It, but that you are to submit and yield yourself servant to the I of your own being, so that your prayer is that I fulfill Itself as your individual experience, that I be the Grace which is your sufficiency, and then let this I which is your true Selfhood govern your life in Its own way.
When you then go into prayer and meditation, there must be no preconceived idea as to what you want or how you wish your prayer to answered. There must be a complete yielding as you daily realize, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” Do not go to God with your thoughts and do not try to have God fulfill your way, because you will fail. You must go to God, the divine Consciousness of your own being, the very I which you are, with this prayer: “Reveal to me Thy way, Thy will, Thy thought, and this, then, will be my way, my will, and my thought.”
THE VERY ORDEAL(S) YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH OR ARE GOING THROUGH may have been absolutely necessary to break the hypnotic world belief of karma (rewards & punishment for acts from previous incarnations).
I NEVER BELIEVED IN KARMA – didn’t know what it was or why I should care about it – and still don’t, except for this: it’s a very strong, long cherished false world belief that needs more than ignorance of its so-called power and presence to destroy its overall influence in our lives.
We need no longer be afraid to face the dastardly claims of Karmic law in order to adequately dispense with the hold it has had through the centuries. Its antidote lies in truly knowing (a) its claims and (b) the spiritual fact that it has no place whatsoever in the realm of Spirit, God. Karma can make its bold assertions all it pleases but the bottom line – Truth – is that it’s the figment of a cosmic over-ripe imagination.
Floria, Thank you. In my younger days, I read many of the Catholic Mystics (because that’s where the primary Christian material is found). (They often speak from their religious tradition, which you overlook.) St. Teresa’s works, John of the Cross, Catherine of Genoa, and Catherine of Siena, Padre Pio, Francis of Assisi, etc. The writings of Jeanne Guyon, the works of Meister Eckhart and Evelyn Underhill. Read “The Power of Now”. Then, don’t forget all the writings of the Buddhist mystics. There is so much available. Usually one thing leads to another. <3
I THINK I HAVE SOMETHING very important to tell anyone who is about to step up their level of Spiritual understanding and application. Let’s say it’s you for example. You discover there’s a wonderful revelation awaiting you as soon as you demonstrate (FOR YOURSELF) that you can handle it.
It comes to you as clear as crystal that you could shore up a few things in the mental realm by focusing a little closer on God. You do so and some areas of wavering drop off. Wow does that ever feel so right and good.
Here’s the caveat: you just gave up some stuff that had been quite comfortable in the “human” realm. You haven’t worked these things through – humanly speaking – NOR SHOULD YOU HAVE TO. But when you suddenly return 100% to the human realm, your so-called body-mind isn’t ready for you. It wants the old you back and you fail to realize the necessity of declaring to it that the former you doesn’t exist anymore (it never did, but that’s for later). If you give in to its pressure you’ll recreate the old you and drown out your newly attained inspiration.
All you need to do is to turn emphatically on the former you – just look at it very, very intently. You’ll see very quickly that in fact it never did exist. With love, RJS