Herb:Soul to soul, heart-felt greetings from the island of Kauai. Once more we’re bringing a message of the Christ to the Christ, which is a very pleasurable message; and it is a great joy to be here to see that we have come to another place in consciousness. It is a place of high esteem, but it requires a great deal of responsibility.
There was an old gentleman, a man named Melchizedek. It was said that he was the father of eternal salvation. If you look at Melchizedek’s life, you don’t see very much of it. He’s a shadow that comes into the Bible and fades out. But while he’s there, Melchizedek does a strange thing. He receives a 10 percent tithe from Abraham, the King of the Jews. That’s fantastic. Who is this Melchizedek? Why does Abraham give him a tithe?
Listen carefully, because you find that Melchizedek is a symbol. He’s a symbol of peace, a symbol of righteousness. But he is a perfect individual, and the reason he is a perfect individual is that he was born without processes. He is without descent. That has a meaning that we all have to find out about. He continued unchanged forever. We are that way. Melchizedek was the forerunner to Christ. He was a Christ figure, and all of the things said about him are cloaked in secrecy for a very simple reason. He ushers in an age, and the same thing goes for Christ. He ushers in an age, and we are the tail end of that age; and it is up to us now to fulfill our responsibility. It is up to us to decide now between God and mammon.
We have come to a place in consciousness where we are meeting people. People are coming to us. We are facing new situations, and we cannot give a cold cup of water. We cannot be of a divided consciousness. It’s time to wake up. We have been asleep too long. Being awake means knowing who you are. Everything in your experience depends on who you are. You cannot continue in doubt, in two selves, switching from one to the other. Until you have established one identity, you have no right to represent yourself as a healer. And if you do know, and you practice it, you represent the kingdom; and you will bless those who come to you for help; and you will meet situations with spontaneity, confidence and righteousness.
But you must know that the number one truth about you, the truth that opens you to new possibilities, the truth you must express from dawn to sunset, from sunset to dawn is that you are immortal. You are immortal now. Not tomorrow, not 20 years from now, not in the next lifetime, but this moment. You are immortal now because God says you are. There is no truth greater that you will ever hear. There is no truth greater that you will ever see. There is no truth greater that you will ever be. Deny it, doubt it, answer to another name; and you are asleep. Treasure it. Value it every waking second. Respond to it every waking second, and your complete existence will change dramatically.
Success or failure, joy or sadness––the quality of life––everything depends on your realization that you are an immortal being. There’s a big mortal mind right outside. It says that you are not. It says you are human. And you can follow that mortal mind until it spreads an illusion of wonderful things before you. It will run your life for you, and if you let it, it will create good forms or bad forms, good health or bad health. It will fill you with the good things of life and then rob you of them when least expected. It will actually rob you of your life. It will rob you of everything wonderful that you create, and it will fill you full of false ego that admires its own creation. It will make you watch while it tears down everything that it has built for you. Finally, it will take you to your grave.
That is mortality, and its destination is death. Its destination is the opposite of life. But immortality––immortality is the true gift of God. The wise man says: “My brightest dreams go up in smoke. As a mortal my life is temporary, uncertain, at the mercy of wind and tide. I change in spite of myself. The world mind governs my destiny, and then it returns me to ashes. This is not God’s way.”
God says, “Choose ye mammon––the mortal way––or God––the immortal way.” God says, “If you live in the world, the love of God is not in you.” And God says, “Spirit is not born in the womb.”
Now that is a very interesting phrase. All around you are the clues about your real identity. But instead, you have been fooled into reaching for the imitation, the substitute, even a substitute life. And a substitute life is not going to get you to the kingdom of God. You must make a choice or waste another thousand years reliving a lie, traveling over old traveled roads that you’ve walked upon many times, making the same mistakes over and over. But now the secret can be told: You are immortal because you were not born in your mother’s womb. Jesus has been telling you this for centuries, but you couldn’t hear him. “I am the Way. I am the Truth.”
Well, Jesus was not born like ordinary folks. Jesus was not born of woman. Why do you think he told us to be reborn? He could have said, “You’ve existed before birth, so get back to where you were.” Instead, he told us to be born again, to get back in consciousness, to the same consciousness that we had in the beginning before the illusion of birth occurred. Now this is very important, so listen carefully as he speaks to Nicodemus.
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Again:
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; … that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
And finally:
“Marvel not that I [say] … Ye must be born again.”
Rebirth is the realization. It’s not the traveling back in time. Rebirth is a realization that you were never born. You see, Jesus had realized this. He had not traveled back in time. He had realized his identity.
“Thou seest me; thou seest the Father. Before Abraham was, I am. In the beginning was the Word.”
Do you see that? I am immortal Spirit. I am unchangeable. I am eternal Self. I have not evolved this way. I simply realized that is what I am, that what is called birth was not my beginning. Birth was the beginning of a dream. Everything I was before the dream I still am. I, too, was reborn. I’ve traveled the same way that I told Nicodemus to travel. Wipe away the mortal mind pictures after birth. Wipe away mortality after birth. Wipe away the temporary self after birth. The illusion begins at birth. Birth is the place where the dream begins, and birth is the beginning of your substitute life. When Jesus tells Nicodemus, “Marvel not that I [say] … Ye must be born again,” he is saying: Return to the eternal life in consciousness which you have never left. God created you immortal. You have never changed.
Pause a minute and think about it. Relax while you know the truth that birth is the beginning of the illusion, and immortality is the never-changing reality of myself.
[silence]
I am immortal. I have always been immortal. That puts me under a different state of law than mortal law. It brings me under divine law, and I will learn how to live with divine law expressing Its will instead of my mortal will. That is the purpose of truth: To stand in the Secret Place, knowing that I am immortal; and therefore, the mortal things that disturb me are not real. There are no mortals out there. All is immortality. And I will learn how to live with that, and I will learn how to be that; and it will take me direct to the Kingdom of God.
[silence]
The true translation of the words of Jesus are: Your Self always lives in the Kingdom of God. You are immortal. You are before Abraham. The illusion of birth creates the sense of a mortal life. But the eternal Self, which always exists, is you and existed before the illusion of birth; still exists and always will exist. Birth is merely the place where man begins the dream. That is where he changes to senses, to a dying self. But I am before Abraham, before physical man, before the birth of the world. Five million years ago, the human race was not even human. There were just gorillas. Think of yourself before birth––then. You see, you were the same before birth as you are now. You were immortal then, and then the dream was the life of a gorilla; and it’s over. You even had the body of a gorilla, and that body was the body of death. While you had the body of a gorilla and the body of a human, your body of Life was immortal. No matter how many dream lives you had, you shut them out in one moment.
The minute you pause for a second of silence, your real Self, your immortal Self springs to life; and I am comes forward––and the dream is put on hold. Every time you meditate, you bring forth your never-born Self; and your born self goes to rest. “Before the world was” is the instant you pause and maintain the silence. Don’t worry about time; it isn’t there. The instant you maintain silence inside and dwell in the secret place with the Father, in that instant the world of time vanishes; and you are back before birth, before the womb––and you are living in the Kingdom of God. Remember that every time you meditate, you go to the Kingdom of God. Now let’s put this world on hold and give our immortal Self a chance to renew our strength, to renew our spirit.
[silence]
Do you feel it? Do you feel the pulse, the rhythm, the harmony, the Spirit? Do you see when the mortal self is still, all that troubles you vanishes. All the little frustrations, all the horrors, all the suffering––it never was. It was always in the dream. And you may come back to it. Oh yes, you’ll come back to it. But you’ll know that all that separates you is a dream. There are no broken bones. There are no bad debts. There are no emotional disturbances. Get hold of your immortality, for it alone dwells in the Kingdom of God. Do you see the distinction? The visible world is the birth world. The invisible is a no-birth world, the immortal world. But the invisible stays with you. It has been with you for millions and millions of years. It is always with you.
I can never leave you. Wherever you go, I go. I am the Spirit of God in you, your immortal Spirit. When you claim Me as the truth instead of the world, which is a lie, then you come under a new jurisdiction.
[short silence]
We can see what we have missed before. The rebirth of man from mortality to immortality is the secret that Jesus brought with him. He came to the earth to demonstrate it, to lead the way. His immaculate conception, called a virgin birth, was the prototype for man who was to be reborn from matter to spirit; and it is accomplished by a return to the spiritual consciousness that is invisible before the dream of a life when physical time began.
The purpose of Jesus Christ is very clear. He was to lead us out of our illusion––our illusion life. The purpose of the mortal mind is also very clear. It is to lead us into the illusion. We can get out only by returning to our Christ mind, which exists before the illusion of birth, by getting out of the world mind with its endless contradictions, temptations, torments. Oh, I know it’s a task; requires complete fidelity to the will of the Father, to Christ in you. But it’s this Christ––this Christ will––which we are forced to follow in order to get out, which opens the gates of the Kingdom to everyone as we give up our life in this world. The Christ replaces our mortal dream with the divine life––slowly. We take the play away from mortal mind, from finite mind, from limited mind, from material mind; and we begin to live in the body of Life. We put Substance into everything we do. We do not do transient things. We are joining the Infinite, the infinite body of Spirit.
The mind body, which in the human stated that we were not from God, we were not living under the laws of God; and so our body had problems. We were operating without Divine instructions, drifting from person, from personal will. And now we’re in Christ will. We’re breaking away from mortality, from mind concepts. We’re getting our input from God, and slowly we’re transforming. God is not the Father of the human because no human exists. While we were living in a body that was born, we were outside the law of God, living in separation in separate selves, each with a separate will; and the result was that humans always were in conflict. They were at war with one another. One nation wanted another’s land or its access to a river or its raw materials. Vast armies grew to back their will. Each nation was committed to its own concepts and to concepts that support those concepts and on and on. One substitute for another substitute and always away from Divine will. That’s how we lived in a human body, in a dream body, in a body separated from God.
Now we’re coming under another consciousness. A new dispensation has arisen. We are listening––a voice within ourselves speaking. We’re beginning to hear that Voice and what It says. When It says, “We are perfect,” we listen. “Be perfect.” While our heart is fluttering and our breath is short, go back in yourself before birth. You were perfect then, and you are perfect now.
How can I be the Son of God when I am deeply in debt, when I am unemployed? Go back before birth and realize that everything after that was a total illusion. You never owed a cent; there was no money to owe. Your debts are as fictitious as a person to whom you think you owe them. In the realization that you are spirit, you will find gold in a fish’s mouth or some equivalent; and your debts will be redeemed. Spiritual realization always brings release in one way or another.
[silence]
We are approaching a new level of ourselves. We have learned many things. We have learned to rise in consciousness. We have learned to meditate well, to know the truth, to know the non-power of material objects. But always we have found that somehow or other we could not protect ourselves from illness. We are always getting ill. And then we say, “Oh, I forgot to do this, or I forgot to do that.” But that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t that we forgot something. We were going against the odds. We were living that divided consciousness, and I know it, and you know it. When we embark on a single divine consciousness, you’re going to go through sacrifices. It’s not an easy way. But I think you realize that it hasn’t been an easy way with a divided consciousness either. And besides, if you’re tired of the energy you put out on negation, on denying that you have this and denying that you have that; if you’re tired of problems; if you have had your share and are still having them, it’s time to put all your eggs in one basket. And that basket is Christ. Who is Christ but the unborn Self? Who is Christ? Is Christ a yesterday? Something that we learned about and then forget about? If you forget about Christ, you forget about yourself. You are Christ, and you are the immortal Christ––Christ who says to you,
“Thou seest me; thou seest the Father.”
Christ who says to you,
“I am with you always. I’ll be with you until the end of the world.”
Get wise. That’s not another person. It’s not another spirit. It’s your Self. Into the illusion comes the Christ, and He appears like an illusion, and He acts like other people except that there’s a distinction. Every healing––every healing––brought about by the Christ was brought about by His immortal Self. Every healing you do will be permanent only if you do it with your immortal Self. That’s what it takes to do what is called a miracle––your immortal Self.
As we dwell in the immortal Self now, giving it a chance, we put aside our toys. We put aside our many yesterdays. We live in time no more. We do not live in space. We do not live in matter. We live in our immortal Self, and It is infinite. You start out with an immortal Self, and you think of it as something in your body. But you come above that, and then you come to your eternal, infinite, immortal Self. I stand in my eternal, infinite, immortal Self; and It will do for me, for Itself, all the things that Christ did during his lifetime. Jesus Christ graduated, and He left an important message:
“Follow me.”
Follow me to that great land where all is perfect. I know you see imperfection. It is illusion. All imperfection is illusion because only God created the universe, and God created a perfect universe. All that is not God, is not. And only your immortal Self will tell this to you. Dwell out of the land of illusion. Dwell in the land of reality.
[silence]
We are joining Melchizedek, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Divine Righteousness, born without process, the author of salvation. And as we stand in the Holy place, we can feel the depth of our own immortal Self; and It will call to us…
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I’m going to ask you now to list five qualities. You can take a pencil and write them down, or you can leave them right on your tape and take them off the tape later. I’ll wait a second so that you can grab a pencil and paper if you want to, and we’re going to list these five qualities so that you can have them for use in the future. I’m talking now so that people who want to get a pencil can get it, and we’ll wait a minute so that you can feel that you’re going right along with it. We’re going to use these five points in the talk here today, and maybe it would be wise if you could jot them down. Well anyway, I’m ready to start; and I hope all of you have your pencils. And the first one is:
- My Christ Self, my before-birth Self, is present.
- All bodies are sense images.
- Nothing I see today is real.
- Improve no sense images.
- Sense images have no power.
Now Jesus Christ had appeared on earth to show us the I Am the way, and He has said,
“Follow Me.”
Before we were born He appeared on earth to show us that He was born of the Spirit, immaculately conceived. You remember at 2 years of age he lived in the spiritual body that was protected against death and destruction. You will remember that at 12 years of age he was about his Father’s business. He was living under the protection of spirit in his spiritual body before physical birth, and that’s what protected his 2-year-old body against the High Priest; and that’s why he was about his Father’s business, not his human father. He was calling this to our attention. Just as at the wedding of Cana, he addressed his mother as “Woman, what have I to do with thee?”
The term that he used, by the way, was called Juval. That’s a term used for a stranger. It was used intentionally, of course––an impersonal term––the same term he had used for the woman of Samaria, a woman who could not give birth to spirit. That was the meaning of Juval. He was emphasizing that the living in a body that was before birth––He was living in a body that was before birth.
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
In short, I am immortal. He was always telling us that he was immortal.
“Thou seest me; thou seest the Father who sent me.”
For three solid years he kept teaching that there is only one way to the Kingdom. That way is narrow, so narrow that few there be who walk that way. For three years he was doing marvelous things and healing everybody, and the people in the world did not understand. He was living in the immortal body of spirit. And He knew––understand this please––He knew that the people He was healing were also living in the immortal body of Spirit. Do you see that? He wasn’t healing their imperfections. He was revealing their perfection. He was revealing that they are immortal.
“…[Spirit is] the firstborn of every creature.”
You’ll find that in Colossians 1:15.
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” That’s 1 John 4:4.
“… I am in [the] Father, … ye in me, and I in [thee].” John 14:20.
All attest to the living spirit of God in you that you walk away from every day, led by the mortal mind, and believe that you were born. Oh no! Time to face the reality. When an individual is born in the womb, he can’t be the child of God. Birth in the womb is not the child of God. You can’t be one with God and be mortal––is a mind image. Only immortal Christ is one with God, and Christ is not born in a womb. Paul caught this. He caught the fine distinction, and he walked in the spirit.
“He knew me before the foundations of the world.”
Meaning: I was divine and complete before the foundations of the world. With this knowledge Paul lived in the consciousness of midnight. That’s the consciousness before humanhood, before the false dawn. Paul was never born, and in that midnight consciousness he couldn’t be held in a prison because he had no physical body. He was immortal. He was in the midnight consciousness, the consciousness before birth. Now we want to get to that midnight consciousness, and we can. Your acceptance of spiritual truth––not lip service, but of spiritual absolute truth and no opposite––that is the essential ingredient. It is important to obey these truths: That you first established that you are immortal; and therefore, you have no physical body. Let’s try that now.
I accept immortality as my only consciousness. Everything born of the flesh, in the flesh dies. That’s a fact. I am Spirit, not born of flesh. My life began before birth. What I was before birth was Spirit, and I have continued to be Spirit, immortal Spirit. Everything after birth in the womb dies. Birth in the womb can’t be Christ. That is the basic Christ demonstration. Only Christ, only Christ is one with God. I must be that immortal one. To be one, I must be Christ. I must be immortal. I cannot be human and divine.
[silence]
Now I am ready. I’m ready to learn the basic points. These points are necessary to the midnight consciousness:
“Because I am immortal, my immortal Self is present.”
That’s your first principle. I am not living a human life. I cannot be sick or have pain. Mortal mind feels sick, feels pain. I never do. Material sense feels pain. I must say no to material sense, to form, to physical body. The body is a mortal mind image. Because of my immortal mind, I cannot accept the forms of a mind.
Now your second basic principle is this:
“All bodies are sense images.”
Just as I must accept that I am not in a body, no one else is in a body either. Look about you––there is not one body. There is not another body and a third body and a fourth body and five million bodies. We are all immortal, and we live in one immortal body. I live in an immortal body. My neighbor lives in an immortal body. There is only one Body. All bodies are sense images. This will seem difficult, but immediately we will notice a new sense of harmony. It is impossible for one body to be belligerent, sullen, uncooperative and the same body loving, caring, cheerful, anxious to please. There are no separate bodies in Spirit. All one, and one has no limitation, no boundaries, no finitude. Your spiritual body will not be anchored to a place. It is never separated from God by birth or death. So now we dwell incorporeally in the spiritual body.
Your third principle:
“Nothing you see today is real.”
Mortal mind is ever busy building an imitation world. But God is all. We do not accept death. We are interested in life eternal, and that is the only life that exists. We have become aware of God’s Consciousness as we’ve become equally aware of the illusion. We see nothing to resist. We judge not. We resist not. We condemn not. And the reason is that we would only be judging ourself. But there is another reason: There is nothing to resist. I sit quiet now, my eyes closed. I see all sorts of things. I let the images come directly toward me, feeling their weightlessness, feeling their incorporeality. I impersonalize them.
I can take about a half hour a day and see that there is no personal life. I impersonalize pain, sorrow, ugliness, uncleanliness, failure and their opposites. I’m learning how to live in no personal self. I’m beginning to dwell in consciousness and spread my actions with Substance. I spend a lot of quiet time getting acquainted with my adversary––learning his tricks; rehearsing my actions, reactions; and above all, the world has been reduced to a dollhouse. Even the big issues in life––job, family, friend––I must learn to see their unreality because only Spirit is.
The fourth principle: “Improve no sense images.”
This is another severe test. You are given a variety of images. Many of them are needful of repair. Your first impulse is to offer your help, do good, to improve them. You must remain faithful to God. Didn’t God make a perfect universe? Doesn’t God have the power to maintain a perfect universe? Have you been fooled? Have you accepted the belief that something in God’s universe is imperfect? Then the master hypnotist has fooled you too. You are trying to improve the imitation, and you are asleep.
Spiritual healing is the very opposite. Always recognize the truth the instant you are given the problem. Nothing is wrong. Nothing is wrong. Accept the problem, and then forget it and the person who brought it to you as well. Is that heartless? No. It is the truth, and the truth will make you free and your patient free. The perfection of the spirit is a fact that never varies. While you forget the patient and the problem, give him back his spiritual self, and you will free that patient.
Our fifth principle will follow in a moment. Maintain the consciousness: five principles.
1. “My Christ Self, my never-born Self, is always present; and it’s the only Self I have.” If I act in any other self I’m living in the imitation world.
2. “All bodies are sense images.” There isn’t one body alive that is a reality. My husband, my wife, my children, my friends, the President of the United States, the Pope, all the nasty people who do terrible things, all the robbers, the murderers, the rapists––the rapists––they are no-thing. You must know this about everyone you see.
3. “Nothing I see today is real.” It is a fact.
4. “Improve no sense images.” But maintain the consciousness. Maintain the immortal consciousness. Know that all is perfect and is maintained perfect. And five:––five you do not have yet, and that is coming up. Your fifth principle is that:
5. “Sense images have no power.” Well, think of Daniel in the lion’s den. Think of the lepers. Think of an army trying to kill a 2-year-old boy and failing. The human mind cannot figure out how it can be that the human hand can never touch the Spirit of God. Sense images are manufactured in the brain, and they have power over other sense images because they are also manufactured in the brain; but there the power stops. It is within your power to stop manufacturing images. The truth will make you free. That is why you start with your consciousness of immortality. However difficult it is, to begin. And go through these five principles until you have mastered them.
I call it the painless crucifixion. An attacker comes with a knife. Disease reaches inside your body. The rent is due. Your children are going hungry. Your immortal Self has the answer, but where is that immortal Self? It is the same Self that Jesus presented to the multitudes. It draws from infinity. It is free of illusion. It has no personal selfhood. It is one with Source. It is a consciousness that exists before the human. It is your Self before the world illusion. It moves above the world mind universe––awake––not asleep. The visible images all take place after birth. The invisible Truth exists eternally before birth and continues to exist while the illusions of birth follow at the same time. The immortal consciousness sees no images.
The attacker disappears. The disease vanishes. The rent is paid by a mysterious stranger. The two children do not go hungry. Why? Because you are seeing them as the Christ, and you are seeing truth of them because you are the Christ and because they are the Christ. Christ exists before human birth. Christ is your consciousness of immortality. Christ is one with the Father.
“[We are God’s], little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
…if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are [made] new.”
Do not make the mistake of waiting for things to get better––they are better. Use the equipment you have. The life that was in the beginning, the WORD, is still the WORD and dwells within you. Free it! We are children of God, and if children, then heirs, joint heirs with Christ, that we may be glorified together. Your hope of glory is Christ within, immortal Self of every creature. And the sooner you start seeing that you are your Self, the Christ, the immortal––the sooner Christ will sit upon the throne of your consciousness.
World Work
We have to do a little world work this time, and there has been a change in daylight saving time, so check your time against California. We want to this time continue our efforts to learn about Self. Try to understand immortality. After you establish your silence, try to dwell in the immortal side. Dwell in the immortal nature of your neighbor. Move across that fence and see that he is immortal too. Do that to the neighbors on the other side, to the neighbors up the street. But certainly do it to him; establish his immortality. You’ll notice that you feel differently about him, and perhaps you’ll notice that he feels differently about you. The immortality of your neighbor and your neighbor and your neighbor is going to be the immortality of the world. That is the consciousness that is growing. It is the consciousness that you require to make the voice audible within you. It is the consciousness of Truth.
So this Saturday at 3pm California time our meditation will be the immortality of your neighbor. I expect you to do that, to do it well. And I think we’ll practice it for the moment so that we can understand what it is. My neighbor is immortal. I can take him by name or by appearance. Mr. Richards is immortal. Mr. Richards gets out there, and he yells a lot, and his dog comes over, and it’s not very nice; and I dislike a lot of things about Mr. Richards. He makes noise at night, has his radio going or his TV going too loud. He doesn’t know it, but he is immortal; and I know it. I know that his immortality is perfect, and there’s no other Mr. Richards. I’m going to extend this beyond Mr. Richards to my other neighbors. I’ve got the secret of peace on earth, of goodwill toward man; and I’ve got to live in it day in and day out.
[silence]
I can’t think ill of anyone while I think he’s immortal, and if I think ill of anyone, I’m disbelieving that he is immortal. I am in a divided consciousness. I will not fare very well because I have lost my God. Oh, this cleans things up so much better. We have to think well of everyone. We have to think well of even the rapist; he, too, is immortal. And pretty soon there is no rapist, you see.
Dwell upon these things. Let your heart flow with your soul. Let your soul flow with your spirit. There is one universe, one immortal universe; and we all live in it. And those who know it are making the transition to that universe.
Let us be still.
[silence]
Herb: From soul to soul, spirit to spirit greetings of the heart in oneness from the island of Kauai. It is such a wonderful feeling to be with you again to share the words of the Father.
You may remember that before the crucifixion of Jesus, Pilate offered the angry multitudes a choice. Among the prisoners was a murderer named Barabas. According to tradition, Pilate could release one prisoner and only one so he cried out, “Which one should I release, this one who committed murder at the insurrection or the King of the Jews?”
Perhaps we should point out the symbolism of this choice. The real choice was not between one man or another man. Mankind was being told that every man has a choice between death and life. You can continue to live in a body that dies, or you can elect to live in a body that is eternal. That choice has never really been offered to mankind clearly but it is there always. Pilate himself was a symbol of “world mind” and its reliance on the authority of physical power.
Now he gave the crowd a second choice they wished to release Barabas, he was uncertain, so he cried again, “Then what should I do to him who ye call the King of the Jews?” And the angry cry came back, “Crucify him!” And so again the symbolism is that eternal life was being rejected and death – human life in a body that dies – was to be released. And I’d like you to remember that broad symbolism.
At that time the eternal Christ body of Jesus which had performed life giving miracles on earth was unknown to the human race. Man spat upon that life. But unaware that they were defiling their own eternal body. They scourged him, they mocked him and in their mockery they did a strange thing. Blinded to life, hypnotized by materialism they were compelled by spirit to clothe the body of Jesus in purple to mock him as a false King of a false kingdom. That was their purpose but spirit had another purpose. Spirit was talking to mankind. It was saying that all men live in the illusion of flesh except this one whom the mocking crowd had clothed in purple. The color purple was the hand of spirit identifying for us the eternal body of the one called Jesus the Christ. Barabas of course is a symbol of human materialism dead to his own immortality, to his own immortal body, to his own eternal life.
Today we are still prisoners in our physical sense of body. Two thousand years in human bodies. When the Holy Ghost breaks that illusion for you, you will experience a strange and wondrous peace, peace that passeth understanding. Ignorance, superstitions of your human mind manifesting as material laws, material concepts will be revealed as mirage. Human will with its many detours will dissolve and God’s will express as your living thought. The kingdom of God’s creation will no longer be a stranger to you. Your new body will look exactly the same to everyone who sees you. Your children, your friends will see the same body where they see you. But you, you will know that a transformation has taken place. To you good and evil will no longer clearly be defined. Your new consciousness will not see good health and bad health. Impressions will be different. Your goals which once loomed so large and enticing, will seem to be less in the future but more in the present and already standard equipment for your being. You will feel a constant sense of rightness of confidence that something wonderful is living your life in higher dimensions. Something more wonderful than you would have even hoped for but had never realized. You will discover that error, frustration and doubt have all vanished from your life. Something has been added; automation on a large scale and it moves you into projects that you have never quite experienced, in a way that is earth shaking and always with a sense of harmony that defies description. Out of the sense of physical form you live under grace, moving in the rhythm of God, fulfilling the divine plan in you. Perhaps you have already discovered that as your healing consciousness is strengthened and the release of healing power increases in you that there is also a noticeable release from your own sense of physical body. This change will be followed by a larger release from material limitations as you become aware of certain weaknesses you may have accepted and learn to eliminate them. Before we isolate these weaknesses and correct them let’s give the universe back to the Father, to the source and let us stand quietly in the secret place of the Most High.
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This may shock you but have you been trying as a healer to heal human bodies? That is a no no and for many wonderful reasons. Even God cannot heal a human body. You see God never made a human body and God is the only creator. God made all that was made and God did not make five million human bodies with AIDS. God did not make twenty million human bodies with cancer or fifty million human bodies with infections, dysfunctions, defects, defective organs and so forth. Well then who made, who made these billions of imperfect bodies. Do you have a God capable of this insanity. Now here the spiritual healer must turn from the broad way that leads to destruction and follow the narrow path that leads to life, life eternal. This is the place where you leave the concepts of mother, father, child. This is where you become absolute and really you have no choice. You must live in spiritual wholeness with spiritual integrity. You must know that the human body which denies the allness of God and the spirit of God as the only living substance in creation; that human body has no existence. And the best way to nail down your knowledge of the non-existence of human bodies is to begin with one essential truth. Please listen carefully and make this truth the nucleus of your healing consciousness.
I have no physical body. My patient has no physical body.
I have no physical body to heal. I cannot heal a physical body because God never made one. I am spirit. I am a spiritual healer. This patient has called me to heal his concept of a physical body and if I try to do that I will fail. My job is to take this patient out of his body prison, out of his body dream above his sense of physical body and my treatment begins when I avoid the trap of believing in two bodies, his physical body and my physical body and recognize there is one body present, only one. And that is the one infinite spiritual body of God. And that is the Christ body of my patient and that is the Christ body of me and that is the Christ body of mankind. This is spiritual wholeness and this prepares you to be a healer.
Now I must raise my consciousness to contact God. Now I must recognize the spiritual truth of my body and my patient’s body in order to release the flow of power into consciousness, to reveal a spiritual harmony that has never changed. The harmony that always is. To reveal the divine identity of the one who requested the help. Above all physical appearances where there is no person to be healed, no body to be healed, no corporeality, no discord only the spirit of God, the image and likeness of God, the temple of the Living God. You see the temptation to improve humanhood is the trap and when you start off on that foot you’re moving away from Mecca. When you accept a graven physical image you are the blind leading the blind. You must live above the belief in human substance drawing eternal substance from Christ within seeing perfection through the single eye of Christ Consciousness.
Now let’s review the first phase of treatment to reach the inner emanation of God the pure spiritual substance of God. I am that substance. I must be awake and aware that I am not finite matter living in physical space. I am not living for the meat that perisheth. God is my Father. God is the Father of my patient. They are not human. They are not human bodies. We are one imperishable divine substance. We are God substance. We’re not prodigal. Above the mirage of form. Above the sense consciousness which sees form through a glass darkly. Above the limitations of human vision we know the truth: God is always right here and God is all that is here. Ah yes you have been tested. Finite matter is the test. Accept finite matter and you deny the allness of God who is infinite. Encompassing all that is real and spiritual. Accept finite form as reality and you are open to the never ending sense flow of imperfect human body images that have fooled man into thinking that men live in human bodies.
The second false belief is that there is life in human bodies. The only life there is, is the life of God. And until you are the realized life of God your separation from God remains the separation of your patient. The power of God’s life flows through your spiritual body which is the one body and the one life of all men. And when you are willing to accept no less than that one spiritual life and that one spiritual body as your life and your body, the power of that life and that body will raise up your patient.
Your treatment is not yet over. You must know the truth, the whole truth to be free and there is no truth about man. The only truth there is, is the truth about God, for God is all. Do you have a sick patient? If you have you have been tricked into believing that God is not all. Just as your patient has been tricked into believing that he and God are two. To this false belief there is exactly like ten billion others. Mortals who live in a false sense of self a false sense of body and a false sense of life. Your job is not to fall into that trap.
Please remember no matter what claim is presented to you it must be false. Every claim is false. And that false claim exists only because the patient has accepted a life and a body that is not the life and the body of God. This is the source of every infection, every discord, every appearance of a condition, but, because God is all, who are these sick patients? Where are their assorted ailments? Ah, you see the mirage? They are the by-product of a mortal dream projected on a cosmic screen by mortal thought and feared by the same mortal brain that projected them. Now you are called upon to dissolve these mirages. To see them as appearances without substance. Without a law to sustain them. Without power. And as these appearances meet your awakened awareness that you and your patient are the life and body of God, infinite, these appearances will scatter and dissolve and flow back to the nothingness from which they came. Like mighty Goliath crumbling before the sling-shot of little David. Your spiritual fidelity to God’s truth in you and as you, in your patient and as your patient will take men out of illusion, out of the sense of imperfection into the perfection of reality.
As the power of your consciousness of truth meets and defeats the lie the peace that comes upon you begins your “real treatment.” Up to now you have been preparing the way. Now God within gives the real healing treatment. The sunshine of truth eliminates the shadows. The grace of divine self realized is the miracle worker within. Divine life has no opposite and this knowledge must manifest in a pure consciousness. On earth as in heaven. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. The realization of oneness with God for you and your patient gives you the assurance that God is on the scene. And this inner assurance is the living Holy Ghost within you which now becomes the living Holy Ghost within your patient. And this divine Comforter opens the inner eye to inner truth to the kingdom of love, the kingdom of peace, the kingdom of indestructibility. Now we stand in the highest of the high, one, infinite one perfect everywhere and this so-called patient has no existence. There never was a patient. You were healing God unawares. And because God is the only there are not two now. You’ve come to that Holy place where the divine self is realized and you can say to the Father, “I and the Father are now one – realized.” And in that precious moment, that eternal moment we stand now.
“Peace give I unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”
“My peace passeth all understanding.”
The glory of the eternal Father will be made manifest in the life of your patient. And in all those who come to you as you are able to reach this pinnacle of realization. That everyone who comes to you is God invisible. That everyone who comes to you is already perfect. That everyone who comes to you is the invisible self of you. And every time you are trapped into believing there are two, that there is a healer and a patient, you will find great difficulty in rising above that false notion. You will be denying the allness of God yourself and your patient will be trapped in your hopeless situation.
We are so fortunate to have these principles of Joel. To have them in books where we can find them again and again and to hear of them and to associate with students who seek only the truth of God. We are blessed. We are blessed because today the color purple is becoming meaningful. Yes they buried Him and before they buried Him they inadvertently clothed Him in purple not knowing that that was a symbol of the eternal body which could never be buried. That symbol is the symbol of your spiritual body which can never be buried. Clothe yourself in purple, weave your purple. Day after day know the purple of eternal life as your body, your only body and refuse, refuse to live in a physical body that must die because you’re not living in one now. You’re living in a concept. And the truth will set you free. Know that truth and you will be free. I am not in a physical body because God made none. My body is not sitting in a chair. My body does not walk visibly in a room. My body is everywhere of substance that will never die. Dwell with this in your meditations. Bring it to your healing consciousness. Expose your so-called patient to this inner truth of your being and make it his inner truth and the world will remember the healings that come from your knowledge of reality. Peace I give unto you but not a peace that passes, a peace so deep that within you is a well of confidence an inner knowledge of reality, an inner I which reveals to you the eternal presence of the kingdom which is your being. You are not separate from the kingdom, you do not walk in the kingdom, you are the kingdom. Rest in the kingdom of your Self, the kingdom of your Soul, the kingdom of God. Rest in your Christ body.
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This is the fourth tape and when we have completed this fourth tape it is the plan of Spirit that we know that we need not be prisoners of the body. That we can step out of the false prison to which the human mind has surrendered, that the doors of our prison can open as they did for Paul, that we are moving into a new era in consciousness, an enlightened era. When here and there across the creation men stand up and declare their divinity, proudly, unafraid and live their divinity and express their divinity and lift their fellowman to his divinity. Here one, there one and across the universe an army, a divine army, a circle of Christ. Be among that group, stand up show your divinity. Let it illuminate your household and let that light shine.
The Meaning Of The Color Purple In The Bible
The color purple is a secret symbol used throughout the Bible. Unfortunately the metaphysical dictionary does not mention this symbol and various expository dictionaries dedicated to an explanation of the esoteric meaning of Bible symbols somehow also by-passed this word which is probably the major reason that Bible students throughout the world have been denied the important significance of this very very special symbol.
Purple: means the full measure of Christ Consciousness and more specifically, when the Bible says that an individual is a weaver of purple, or associates an individual with the color purple in any way, it is revealing that this individual has awakened to the truth that he or she is not living in a body of mortal flesh, but is one with the spiritual immortal body of God.
This secret was handled very discreetly by Old Testament Prophets. It’s tucked away in the book of Exodus, Numbers, Judges, 2 Chronicles, Ester, Proverbs, Song of Solomon and Ezekiel. The New Testament writers mention a little more openly but not much, Mark, Luke and John all reported purple on Jesus just before the crucifixion and then in Acts 16 when Paul and Silas prayed in prison and the foundations of the prison shake and the doors of the prison open. The writer of Acts gives us a marvelous clue to the deep hidden meaning of that event by placing Lydia a “seller of purple,” just before the event and immediately after the event to inform us that Paul was living in his infinite Christ body, the body of God.
And then in the lost books of the Bible there’s a spiritual account of the birth of Christ to the virgin Mary. It’s written by James the Lesser who is known as the cousin and brother of Jesus. Who was the first Bishop of the Christians in Jerusalem. And this is an authentic account titled “The Pro-Evangeline.” In chapter 9 of the Pro-Evangeline it tells us that the High Priests were making a new veil for the temple and so from seven virgins they selected Mary to spin the true purple. Which meant to weave her Christ Consciousness. And while Mary was spinning the true purple she heard the inner voice and it declared that she was full of grace and blessed among women. Mary was realizing her true body was not the flesh. She was being transformed in consciousness to realize her spiritual body, her permanent divine body which was the vehicle for the eternal life of God. And that is what made this an immaculate conception. So the WORD in Mary, became flesh and dwelt among us. For every soul there must be a realization of spiritual identity which homogenizes the female soul and the male spirit and births out of this mystical marriage the androgynous Christ which is the individualization of God or Self realized. From this immaculate self conception your God-self which you always have been replaces the material time illusion which is called mortal and you are now revealed as the temple, the body of the living God.
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Enlightenment is the process of discovering your God-self. Faith is the capacity to accept the qualities of your God-self even before realization, as it becomes clear to you that human thought and human vision are cut off from God, from reality. This capacity of inspired faith is lit by the divine flame of God’s grace which leads you to itself. The journey from little me to divine I is your identity test which trains your soul. As your soul moves through the fourth world of the mind we react to the illusion of separate material selves or we stand fast with our mind stayed on the truth of God’s words and deeds expressed through Christ.
The higher journey begins when we intellectually accept the one body of God as the only body in the universe and that is where you are right this moment. And when we refuse to waver from that certainty, when we awaken, something wonderful happens, we are released from the body concept.
I came across a poem recently by an infinite way student which expressed the inner journey in a way that I thought you may find interesting and helpful. It’s called:
AWAKENING
We enter this earth-realm like a Christ butterfly,
emerging from a mortal cocoon, magical, wondrous appearing.
A breath from the one invisible life that envelops this world of love.
Wide-eyed and innocent we love every form and pattern this realm
presents to challenge a young life.
Moving with the gentleness of a butterfly,
we dance and play and glow with each breath.
Heaven is our world, a safe cocoon.
Out of this resplendent cocoon we become youth.
We love and accept with every breath,
conditioned concepts of an earthly realm.
Forgetting for a while how a butterfly, beauty;
looking to externals for life.
Our bodies mature and this life we call adulthood.
Secure in its cocoon of earthly pleasures,
begins its butterfly flight, in search of forgotten love,
questing for meaning, examining this realm of being
and pondering the source of breath.
We reach our autumn years,
and with each breath we take, awaken to an inner life,
glimpsing visions of an invisible realm.
We untangle the cocoon of mortality, embrace God’s love.
Soaring in spirit and beauty as a butterfly,
in a swift movement of time,
the butterfly in us hovers on the truth that breath is of the soul,
that God is the love that transforms us to eternal life.
We discard the fleshly body, the cocoon;
and awaken to the glory of a higher realm.
In every heart and life there is a cocoon of love
that gently unfolds as the breath of a butterfly
to dwell in a heavenly realm.
I thank that student for that lovely poem.
On page 112 of the “Art of Spiritual Healing” Joel says,
“My body has neither qualities or quantities of good or of evil. It has neither sickness nor health”
Do you know any human being whose body has neither sickness nor health. Can you accurately make the same statement. Try it. Say the words slowly. See if they feel comfortable. My body has neither qualities nor quantities of good or of evil, it has neither sickness nor health. Did you feel comfortable? Let me remind you that when you know this is true about your body and also about your patient’s body and about everybody’s body in the world, you will know that this is what Christ taught. And that Joel could make this statement because he was talking about the Christ body which he realized was the only body that God had given him and you and everyone.
Your changeover from a human sense of body with ailments to a divine body which lives forever is a fulfillment of God’s plan that ye be perfect as God.
As you know Joel had several heart attacks but his knowledge that they were not occurring in his divine and only body, weathered the illusion, until in divine order spirit moved his consciousness into the fullness of his next experience.
“My body is neither large nor small,” he said
And you can see him he was about 5 foot 2 or 4 maybe 6 but I think maybe 4, well maybe 2 but he was a short man, my body is neither large nor small. Now mind you he walked this earth as other men but he had graduated from the notion that he lived in a physical body. With simple conviction he said;
“My body has neither life nor death.”
Now if you saw Joel walk into a classroom you might have assumed that his body was alive. He didn’t agree, no, “My body does not have life,” he firmly declared. Now he was speaking about the body which already appeared to him in consciousness. Not about the body concept which appeared to his students, the concept body which dies and does not contain life at all. You see real life can never live in a false mental image. And that body which can never be alive can never die. That body which is spirit can never die either. There is one body called human body and it is never alive so it cannot die. There is a body called spirit which is always alive so it can never die. Death is an impossibility. So Joel said, “My body has neither life nor death.” Now can we stop a moment can we adjust our consciousness to this great truth.
Science have affirmed that atoms and micro atoms are the substance of your form. Science is wrong, God is the substance of your form. And God is spirit. Atoms are man’s concept about spirit. You do not have a spiritual body and an atomic body. Your spiritual body is the body of God and will never die. Your atomic body is a sense of body which does not contain God substance or God life. It lives in a false state of being. And living in an atomic sense of body you must experience separation from God which always results in a house divided between pain and pleasure, divided between good and evil, between good health and bad health, a sense of life and a sense of death. Mortality never experiences immortality, mortality must appear to perish because the illusion of life cannot sustain itself. The quicksand of atoms is the burial ground for all who identify as mortals. Fortunately, Infinite Way wisdom teaches that we are even deceived by youth and old age. So Joel says;
“My body is God substance expressed as form, embodying all qualities and quantities which constitute God, the I am, the soul. My body has neither youth or old age.”
Every word there is a spiritual lesson. If you are entertaining thoughts about youth or old age you are not living in your real body. God is not young or old and the spirit of God is the substance of your body. So pause a moment, go within, rest in your soul with peace with confidence, be grateful that your heavenly Father, through the Christ of Joel, is leading you to green pastures teaching you how to weave the pure purple; opening the book of life eternal, and inviting you to enter the realm of immortality for each ray of divine light we thank the Father.
As your senses release their grip as the mists of matter reveal their shallow layers of illusion our confidence in the power of truth is renewed and we are ready for new keys, new dimensions leading to the kingdom of reality. Says Joel;
“In my body, my real and only body is neither material darkness, nor mental ignorance, for God is a light unto his Holy Temple which my body is.”
With this calm assurance you must answer every call for help. Your patient is always God the invisible substance of every form. In time the illusion of physical form does not fool you. The I of you and the I of your patient stand in oneness while the hypnosis of person and condition go through their little act. Big illusions seem to have more power than little illusions, and as each claim touches your purified consciousness it meets the Christ in you who judges no man. Now listen again please as Joel states truth that you can depend on forever.
“God unfolds, discloses, reveals himself as body temple, place of holiness and peace. God’s grace maintains and sustains his body which my body is.”
Did you hear that? If you could realize that one truth, and feel it so deeply that you trust it without question, you would experience a major step forward step in consciousness. Nothing in this world would rustle or disturb you. You would know that God’s body, the body of everyone in this universe is indestructible and uninfluenced by the changing illusions in the sense world of man. To you God will always be saying;
“My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you.”
I would like to thank everyone of you for joining in our world work this past month. As a group of Infinite Way students around the world we are now meditating in our homes every Saturday at 6pm California time. We’d love you to join us and we think you’ll understand as soon as you do.
Starting with this tape our subject will be the body of the universe, the very last sentence in chapter 9 of Joel’s’ book, “The Art of Spiritual Healing.” That will be our subject and I’m going to read it to you, you’ve just heard it.
“God’s grace maintains and sustains his body, which my body is.”
Think for a moment of every nation on this planet and think of its inhabitants. The invisible substance of that nation and its inhabitants and of every nation and its inhabitants is the body of God which your body is.
Dwell in your real body now. Are you only in your room? Is the body of God only in your room? Stretch out to your infinite divine body of pure divine spirit. And when you hear or read about a plane crash in Brazil, an earthquake in California, an epidemic in Guatemala; meet that claim easily, confidently with the simple knowledge that God’s grace maintains and sustains his body which my body is. You can meet every claim with this incredibly wonderful truth. You will discover that your consciousness of the body of God as your body, is healing unto the nations. Let’s do it now. Rivet it into your consciousness.
The phrase we will use for our meditation throughout the world every Saturday at 6pm California time is the last words in chapter 9 of Joel’s book “The Art of Spiritual Healing” and those words are;
“Gods grace maintains and sustains his body, which my body is.”
We are moving through the invisible now in consciousness feeling the joy of our everywhereness of our eternal body which will always be our eternal body, which will never be sick, never destroyed, never defective, always perfect, always in harmony, always the one body of God is my body. And I have no other body. Dwell in this glorious truth. Let yourself be transported. Find your glorious kingdom of reality.
We’re going to stay here in the purity of our soul listening, waiting and listening for that voice which individualizes in each of us, to guide us, to love us, to teach us, to open new doors, new highways, new realms. For this is the age of enlightenment. The age when men discover their souls. And with their souls discover their spirit. And with their souls unite with their spirit to birth the color purple, the Christ Consciousness which gives us single vision and makes us Self-creative. In your true body everything you need you create and as feel the miracle of self-creation you will say, “How fortunate that I was able to go the narrow path to achieve this wondrous spiritual quality.”
There will be four more healing tapes before the Chicago seminar and each one will prepare us for new dimensions in healing. Joy to you for sharing today’s message with us and may your day reflect the glory that you are.
Blessings from Kauai.
Herb: From soul to soul, spirit to spirit. Greetings of love from the garden island of Kauai.
This tape series in preparation for the Chicago healing seminar next Easter is called “New Dimensions in Healing.” And today I believe you will hear about healing truths which rarely are taught to students anywhere in the world. For one thing, spiritual healing never can be taught to a material consciousness. Only spiritual students are prepared to understand fourth-dimensional healing truth. But even spiritual students will find the hard sayings of esoteric truth are difficult to digest and to apply. And yet there must be a place on this earth where the healing grace of God is taught in its absolute form, without fear of shocking anyone or of alienating the timid or the traditional healers who cling to methods that cannot produce the greater works. Christ healing is revolutionary, and to fulfill our responsibility as servants of the Most High, we are compelled to follow the Master by bringing these hard sayings into our daily healing work. And so today, perhaps we should first heal the healers to prepare them for every challenge that will be called upon in each of us to face problems that the world needs to solve.
As you know, any attempt on your part to explain these hard truths to a material mind will be rather difficult and will surely meet with instant disapproval, as you may soon discover for yourself. One key truth that mankind has managed to overlook for over 5,000 years is that God is all. And to that we must now add a second truth. And that is the important truth we wish to discuss.
God is Immortal.
Now where does that leave you? It leads to another amazing truth:
Because God is immortal, and God is all, there are no mortals on this earth.
The application of this one truth can magnify the power of your healing work. A Bible student can get by without surrendering his mortality, but truly it is foolhardy to believe that a spiritual healer can live in a mortal body of matter and can be a channel for spiritual healing. Mortals who try to heal other mortals can be effective through mental healing and a variety of other good methods. But they will also have many weaknesses and many failures. If you have not known before, realize now that the extraordinary healing miracles of Jesus were only possible because he had learned how to unlock the infinite power of the immortal Christ of his own eternal being. This immortal Christ in you can heal the universe, and you can learn how to release this same Christ and all its power to the world when you learn to follow the hard sayings of the Master. And that will take all your courage, all your vision, all your pioneering spirit, all your determination plus divine inspiration to release you from the fetters of false boundaries.
“Sell all thou hast.”
Ah. What did the Master mean by that statement? Was he advocating that we walk around in sackcloth? Did he want us to sell our homes and our investments; turn it all over to charity? His very close friend, Lazarus, was a wealthy man; and what did Lazarus sell before he walked out of a tomb in a new spiritual body? Lazarus did what every disciple of the Master learned to do. He sold his mortality. He surrendered his concept of mortal flesh. He accepted his immortal Self as the only Self that he was.
“Lay down your life so that you may pick it up again,” said the Master.
And Lazarus did just that: He laid down his mortal concept of self, picked up his immortal life––just as each one of us on the spiritual path is learning to do. Now you must admit that is a hard saying. And the pity of it is that because mortals have been afraid of that hard saying, they have gone through the illusion of dying on battlefields, suffering the tortures of the damned, with crippling diseases that have no divine Creator and exist only in the hypnotized mind. The belief that man is mortal is the hypnosis, and from this erroneous belief evolves the equally erroneous belief in mortal problems, mortal diseases and disabling mortal sickness––the entire inventory of mortal illusions that culminate in mortal death.
The first shock is over. We have learned: There are no mortals on this earth. Immortal God created only immortal man. Mortals do not exist. And this truth is so breathtaking, so essential to your realization of identity, so vital to your healing work and to the fulfillment of your eternal life, that Spirit commands you to pause right here to reach a higher understanding of who you are and to look beyond the mortal tomb of flesh that you have naively accepted as your body.
Rest in the quiet for a moment. Find the incorporeality of your Self, the You without a physical form. Let your spirit rest there as you live in your incorporeal Being.
Your function––and this is not the words of a man––your function is to honor God supremely. We all accept that. It may surprise you, however, to learn that if you do not accept God as your source, as your Father, you are dishonoring God. The Son of God is as immortal as his Father. The belief in your mortality is a denial of your divine Sonship, a denial of your divine identity, a denial of the Fatherhood of God. All mortals are denying Sonship and thereby dishonoring God. Mortals can never be one with an immortal God. Mortality is duality. Only immortality honors God. Only immortality is one with God. Only immortality is the truth that makes you free. And this is one of the greatest secrets taught on earth by Christ Jesus, unknown to most of Christendom. He was not resurrected. The purpose of his demonstration is still unrealized. In one of the most remarkable teachings ever given to the human race, he demonstrated the illusion of mortality. He had one body, and it was not the body that men saw. He had one life, and it was not contained in that mortal body. And when the illusion of a mortal body was removed by crucifixion, the immortal body and the immortal life remained untouched by death because it was one with God, unseparated from God. And that immortal body and that immortal life is the divine body and the divine life that you have now. Rest in that beautiful truth.
The day must come, and the day is now when you declare your divine Sonship by surrendering your false sense of a mortal body containing a mortal life and accept immortal body, immortal life as your real Self, your only Self, your undying Self. Then, then you will honor God supremely. Hold this truth deep and hallowed in your consciousness. Every word has a unique and wonderful meaning for all of us.
“Follow Me.” Oh, what a hard saying! Because “Me” is the immortal Christ saying, “Follow Me out of your false mortality into your God-given immortal life, your God-given immortal body. And do it on this earth as I have done it.”
“Sell all thou hast.”
Lay down your mortal life that you may pick up your immortal life now. As your mortality is surrendered and released, your mortal problems will go with it. Sickness, disease, every appearance of imperfection is part of the one mortal illusion.
“Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
What does it mean? Be immortal like your Father now. Do you feel the inner rhythm of your immortality? Can you feel the reality of a body that you cannot see, your immortal body? That is God’s gift to you, your invisible body of eternal life–– the body that was yours before birth––eternal, unconditioned, perfect forever. A body that is everywhere now, always present, always divinely protected, never born. You have a body of infinite Spirit which lives now in the invisible kingdom of one infinite Self. This immortal body which exists before Abraham––meaning before the appearance of your mortality, before the world illusion––is your eternal life body. And you must know the miracle of your infinite Christ body because it is the one inseparable, immortal body of all who walk this earth.
This is the lesson you will find yourself returning to very frequently. This is the lesson your soul will call to your attention repeatedly. This is the lesson that will make you feel incomplete until you are the living lesson.
And now, while you are expanding consciousness to the full depth of your being, let’s take a look at your patient––the one who will come to you and say, “I have a problem.” You have just learned beyond doubt who you are. Now ask yourself this: Who is your patient? This is a very crucial question. In spiritual healing you must identify your patient correctly. You must not judge by the appearance of form. Do you think your patient is a white male about 30 years old? If so, you have already lost the case. Is she a black female about 40 years old? Wrong again. You are still judging with a natural mind. That can never see reality, only its sense of reality.
Now let’s look again without judgment. Who is your patient? Is this the Son of God or a human being? Is this the Son of God or a Eurasian male? Who is sitting in the chair in front of you saying, “Help me”? Who is your real patient? Now let’s remove the mortality of your patient. No mortal is sitting before you. There are no mortals on earth. This is where you make or break your case. Immortal God is appearing to your mind as a visible mortal male or a mortal female. But the invisible Son of God sits before you. The one immortal Self is appearing to your senses in a material form because you do not have spiritual vision.
Now look once more––not with your eyes but with your soul. Look at the spiritual reality concealed by your senses, and you will discover who your patient is. Are you ready? All right. Who is your patient? The answer is this: You are your patient. Every patient coming to you is you. I am your patient. The I of you stands before you, the infinite I. There is no problem in I, which is God expressing. God is one without opposite. I is God. I and the Father are the inseparable One. I God, the Self of you, am your patient. I am perfect, for I am the Father. I can never be sick, for I am all the perfect qualities of God. I am the immortal body of the universe, and your senses are seeing Me through a glass darkly as an individual mortal with ailments. But I am the invisible body of all men, the body of eternal life, the same body that remained alive when the illusory material body of Jesus was crucified. I am the Christ body, the Holy One of Israel. And when you have faith that I am the Christ of your patient and of you, one forever, then you will have the secret of spiritual healing. Then you will bear witness to the truth of God in every man, and the miracle of Grace will reward thee openly.
Every claim of a problem is a denial of divine identity because the identity of all is I, the perfect Self of God. The real identity of your patient needs no healing. But rarely will your patient be aware of his real identity. He will be asleep in a material sense of mind and body. And so your job, as the healer, is to lift him to his true Self and to prove that God is the Self of all. This is what makes spiritual healing a true delight. You are not healing. You are not healing bones, muscle or tissue. You are restoring your patient to his divine Self, taking him out of the belief in a mental-created image called body, out of the belief in material flesh. And your secret method is not the words you speak, but it is your recognition within of His immortal life and His immortal body, which are unseparated from Your immortal life and Your immortal body.
Take it all the way to that. For God is the I of you and of him, and that I in the midst of you and your patient is the invisible divine substance of him and of you. Your realization of the one indwelling Self of you is the trigger. As you abide in that realization, your consciousness will expand and rise––and not by might, not by power. Spirit itself will pull the trigger with truth to explode the myth of mortal man, mortal matter, and to dissolve the mirage and to reveal the underlying perfection that never left your patient. All error, all sickness in our world is sense hypnotism. We stare at God’s spiritual kingdom––infinite, eternal, immortal, perfect Self––and the world mind interprets this infinite, spiritual perfection as a finite, imperfect world with imperfect selves, spinning in make-believe time.
Our sense mind completes the mirage by looking out at the one undivided, infinite, immortal Self and seeing millions of mortals separated and finite––individual mortal bodies, individual lives. And because the illusion cannot sustain itself, it deteriorates. Body cells seem to die; organs refuse to work; life seems to ebb away; and then new life seems to be born. This imitation of Reality, called human life, denies the perfect power and harmony of God’s spiritual creation. It denies the divine Love that maintains the integrity of that creation, and it denies the Allness of God. This total hypnosis governs our world and the human race.
But you as a healer and an Infinite Way student of spiritual truth, you must constantly know that anything less than perfection is hypnosis because imperfection is impossible in spiritual reality. Perfection is the eternal, unchanging nature of reality. So as the transparency for Christ, you must prove this every day of your life, until you accept the divine Immortality of everyone you meet, patient or otherwise. You will be proving:
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.”
And you will be loving your neighbor as yourself in the true sense of the words. Best of all, you will be fulfilling divine law; and the blessings of the Father will pour forth in every aspect of your life.
In the silence, let your soul recapitulate who you are, who your patient is and the opportunity you have to prove that everyone coming to you for help is God invisible in a perfect, immortal body living a perfect, eternal, immortal life; and then live with that pure truth. The fruits you reap are beyond measure.
Stay with the silence. Let the glory of your own Spirit fill your universe with its magical substance. Feel the pulsing spiritual life that animates all who walk this earth and know that that spiritual life will never depart. We are immortals in an immortal universe, and the one immortal that we are is God himself; for I and the Father are one.
You may not hear the second side right away, so I would like to tell you about something I intend to put on the second side. It’s about time that we start meditating together on world work, and so probably toward the end of the second side there will be a discussion about what we will do and when. But I want you to know that meditation in world work will be called upon, and it will be on, I think, Saturday night, Saturday 6pm, every Saturday 6pm. Now that time fits in very well if you go by California time, 6pm California. Some of you will find it a little earlier; some will find it a little later. Here in Kauai for me or whoever it happens to be meditating on the islands, it will be 3 hours earlier. New York it’ll be a few hours later and so forth. And abroad––South Africa, Thailand, England, Switzerland, France: You’ll have to check California time, 6pm Saturday nights California time; and your assignment will come in the second half, at the end of it.
Let’s be still now and remember that every hard saying is a teaching to open your soul to your eternal Reality.
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In this lesson so far you have learned new dimensions of healing that you will not find in books. To be sure that these vital principles are included in your healing procedure, it would be wise to review them very carefully right now until the hard sayings have done their work in your consciousness. You probably have never really tried to live in your body of Life instead of your body of death.
Mortals accept the cycle of life and death, so they spend lifespans after lifespan living in mortal bodies that must die. At one time every person on earth lived in the sea. We were water creatures with bodies adapted to living underwater. Before that we were minerals without animation, without bodily organs. But if you reverse the scale of evolution and return to your source, you will find that in the beginning, you were immortal. What we are learning now is the revolutionary truth that what you were in the beginning is what you are now. The I of you has never changed. You are still immortal, and you always will be. There isn’t a thing you can do to change from being immortal forever. The complete cycle of material evolution from a one-celled amoeba through millions of years of genealogical changes, terminating in twentieth-century man, is one continuous time illusion, which has mesmerized the mind of all physical creatures from the lowest protozoa to the highest primates.
“Before Abraham was, I Am.”
In one breathtaking sweep Christ revealed that before physical man was, Spirit is. Before mortality was, immortality is. In other words, the Christ, spirit of God, is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. God does not evolve. Spirit is perfect and changeless forever. The entire purpose of the Christ mission on earth is to take man off the tree of physical evolution in which every man dies and reincarnates, to die again, and to lift him out of the concept of a human body that dies to the spiritual body of Life, which is the secret of life eternal. You have a body of Life.
Christ Jesus found his body of Life––his eternal body and his eternal life––not by physical evolution, but by awakening from the dream of physical evolution. Do you see that? By moving from the body of illusion, which dies, to the body of Reality, which lives. The I of you, the Christ of you is the immortal Self which never, never, never evolves; which is never sick; which never has problems; which never dies; and which, therefore, honors God supremely. You will never become that immortal Self. You either accept it as your reality now, or you continue living in a false mortal sense, a false body, until your mortal lifespan runs out.
“Choose ye this day God or mammon.”
Mammon is that mortal body of death. God is the immortal body of life eternal.
In the silence let Spirit provide the inspiration and confidence we need for the dawn of a new awakening in consciousness as our souls open to the inner Christ. Above your mind, above this mental world in which men live are three levels of Consciousness. They are called the three heavens. These three heavens are the sum and the substance of who you are. In Chapter 12 of 2nd Corinthians, Verse 2, Paul says that he saw a man caught up in Christ in the third heaven. That third heaven is your eternal Christ, your eternal Christ life, which is your real and only life right now. The second heaven is your immortal Spirit. The first heaven is your immortal soul.
These three heavens above this mental world constitute the fullness of your immortality. And when you deny your immortality, you deny the existence of your soul, your spirit, and your eternal Christ life. And this, unfortunately, is precisely what keeps mankind from enjoying the fruits of the Kingdom. Like shutting out the sun and then saying, “We have no sunshine.” Without the conscious activity of your immortal soul, your immortal Spirit and your immortal eternal life, you are the natural man who receiveth not the things of God. So another hard saying is:
“Keep your conversation in heaven.”
Mankind has not heeded that hard saying. Our mental world keeps us earthbound, buried in the tomb of mortal flesh, walking on a treadmill which makes us labor for material things alone, material things that perish.
Your high levels of healing work will begin when you realize your own immortality. For only then can you realize the immortality of your patient, and this is the essential key to opening the doors of your patient’s soul.
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
You are now standing on the threshold between material consciousness, mortal consciousness and immortal consciousness––between humanhood and Sonship. And you must ask yourself, “Is the Son of God mortal?” You know by now that by believing we are mortal we are rejecting Sonship. John helps clarify who we are with this statement:
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Mortals love the world, and they seem to die because this world is our mortal imitation of the Kingdom. Immortals love only the Kingdom. They will not accept an adulterated version of the Kingdom. Know this:
“… all that is in the world, [all], the lust of the flesh, … the lust of the eyes, … the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.”
Let’s catch a point there. When you cross over from mortality to immortality, without dying, you are doing the divine Will. You are accepting immortal God as your Father here and now. You are declaring your birthright to live now in God’s perfect Kingdom. You are obeying God’s Will. And that crossing over, that transformation in consciousness, is your spiritual rebirth. It should be clear from many signs we have received that your immortality is really the only direction you can go to seek enlightenment. The mission of Christ Jesus, pure and simple, is to lead mankind away from death to life, from mortality to immortality. And if you do not make that move now, while you’re alive and have the right to choose, it’ll be too late when the right to choose is taken away.
“Turn ye and live.”
How perfectly clear. Every word of Spirit rings with new meaning. Turn from death to life, from mortality to immortality, from matter that dies to spirit that lives. Lazarus, a wealthy man, made the transition in consciousness and walked out of a material tomb in his immortal body. Peter made the same transition––walked out of prison. And there be some among you now who will never see death because the immortal Son of God, realized, is your life eternal. Actually, your life work is just beginning. Everything you have learned is to prepare you for rebirth from the world mind to your divine soul, from the body of death to the body of life.
“What fools these mortals be.”
When Shakespeare said that through one of his characters, he was chastising us for clinging to dying images. We have prayed to God to help us whenever we suffer. We’ve failed to realize, however, that divine love can never leave us. And in our human conflicts we’ve overlooked one of the great truths that makes all sense of suffering unnecessary: We are not in a mortal body that suffers. Every physical problem is based on our unconscious rejection of the immortal body in which we truly live and in which our divine Self is living now.
Remember Paul, how he walked the earth unafraid, teaching the revolutionary Christ message? Because he had discovered his immortal body was under divine protection. The disciples transcended to their immortal bodies and followed Christ Jesus to the three heavens. And today some of us are ready to embark on that same exciting journey in consciousness. Let us break the hypnotism by awakening from the dream––the dream that God made suffering bodies, that God made bodies that grow old and deteriorate.
Let us love the Father who loves us. I am not separated from God. There is no place where God’s immortal body separates, and part of it becomes mortal. The life of God flows in God’s infinite body. I am that infinite, divine body because no other body exists. I am that infinite, divine life because no other life exists. I am that perfect life because the Father commands me to be perfect. And my perfect life is immortal now, alive forever. I will never die. I am immortal life. The same one infinite, immortal life that is the life of Christ, Buddha, Krishna and all Sons of God. There is no other life.
I have never seen your body, and you have never seen mine. We live in one invisible body which never knows pain, suffering or age. We are ageless, eternal life substance, permanently alive. We have no place to lay our heads because we are incorporeal. We are Spirit. We do not live inside the illusion of mortal flesh. We have no finite form. We are the invisible temple of God. We are the only body on earth, alive everywhere simultaneously and without interruption. We are the one invisible body of the so-called human race that walked in ancient civilizations, the human race that walks today and the human race that will appear in every tomorrow. We are the eternal body of God, always perfect, always manifesting the perfect qualities of our perfect Father. All imperfection is impossible. Perfection is always present. Imperfection is always in the dream. God is the immortal substance of the universe, and anything that is not immortal is unreal.
During the next month while you secretly and silently practice reminding yourself that you are immortal, something wonderful is going to happen: An opportunity will arise for you to heal another individual. That person may come to you and say, “You are a student of spiritual healing, and I am in great pain. Will you help me?” When that individual comes to you very much in distress, how are you going to meet this request? What will you try to accomplish? First:
“Fear not.”
Fear is a denial of the presence of God. The moment you’re in a state of fear, you’re denying God is there. So if you fear, steady yourself with the knowledge that only God is there––not even you or your patient––and that God can never go away. When you catch that, you find a great release. No matter what you see or hear, only God is happening; and only God is present. It’s truly a great release. Now this patient is your opportunity to prove that God is all, that the only life in your room is the life of God.
Now comes a big addition, a big change in your healing technique. You are immortal. All month you will be practicing that you are immortal. But now stop! Look at your patient. What do you see? Do you see a physical man, physical woman in distress? Did God create men or women in distress? Do you see another mortal? Did God create mortals? Are you getting the point? Because only God is present, there are no mortals. Just as you are immortal, so is your patient. Makes no difference whether your patient is 90 years old or 5 years old. Stop fearing. Stop worrying. Stop doubting. Know the one truth: The person sitting in your room is immortal. Every person who ever comes to you is as immortal as you are. When you know this, you will feel a great weight fall from your shoulders. When you accept the patient’s immortality, it will be because you have accepted your immortality.
More healings have failed because mental teachings try to heal mortal patients with mortal practitioners. And the healing of Christ Jesus succeeds because being immortal, he realized the immortality of everyone who approached him for help. No successful spiritual healer has ever had a mortal patient and has never treated a mortal condition because his so-called patients are all immortal, unconditioned.
You have received this vital information because you are now ready for it. Now apply it. Daily build your consciousness by realizing that only immortal life is here on earth. In your contemplations be alert for inner wisdom about your own immortal life and the immortal life of the entire human race. We have all been entertaining angels unawares, but it is now your time to crack the shell of mortality, to discover the immortal Kingdom of Spirit in which you really live.
World Work
During the past 25 years many of us have joined in world work with a great deal of success, I think, and often a few wonderful surprises. World work is something you do from your living room or wherever you meditate. Groups are invited to join us as we start this work now, groups and individuals. We would like to begin these world-work meetings starting at once. Every Saturday at 6pm California time, let us set aside one hour in which we join around the country and abroad to bring spiritual light to a world which needs all the light we can release.
Today the conflict seems to be bubbling over in China, so perhaps that’s where we should start. Let us make “peace in China” the subject of our meditation. But let’s change that to something else to make it possible to attain that peace. Let our theme be “Immortality in China,” and then we can use the new spiritual wisdom that we have received today.
Suppose we run through it briefly together. We may run out of time. But if not, we’ll try to cover it as well as we can. Here’s our first step:
Look past the headline events in China. Look past the bloodshed, past the tyranny, past the horror of a nation at war against itself. Instead, let us look at the reality.
God is happening where the world sees genocide, where a brother dies from a brother’s hand. We must ask, “Did God create a bloody China?” Of course not. We are seeing a world illusion on the screen of the world mind. We are looking at mortals in turmoil where mortals do not exist. “Pick up your bed.” Rise in consciousness. There is no mortal. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” Immortal God everywhere is the only life, the only body. One immortal Self at peace forever, standing now behind the image of mortals at war.
In your fidelity to God, accept the immortality of every resident of China whether he be a student, soldier or member of the government. Let the names and the forms fade away. The immortality of China––the immortal Son of God––is now today, this moment, the identity of all China––past, present and future. Within you feel My peace, and watch the lie fade away.
“My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”
And now one more step: Who is meditating? Are you in your soul? Are you in the peace of your soul or in your mind? Are you in your Spirit or in a body of flesh? Are you immortal or human? Do you see? When you have accepted that you are immortal, that you are the immortal I-Christ, you will recognize the immortality of the Chinese people.
So now let us drop the concept of being in a mortal form governed by mortal law, as the I of you recognizes the I of China, recognizes the one divine life of all nations, recognizes the one immortal Self of all nations. And now you are a channel for the perfect, immortal law of God. That realized oneness translates divine power into divine peace, harmony and love.
Herb: From the island of Kauai, it’s a joy to send you greetings of love in the spirit of oneness.
Every true spiritual healer knows that he has no personal power. His only function is to learn how to be a pure channel for the grace of God, which has divine dominion over all things, which is now functioning everywhere in the infinite invisible, and which is the very substance of all that exists in the kingdom of God––the true creation of the Father. This divine substance is flowing freely as the uninterrupted consciousness of God and of the I Am of every man. And this, this uninterrupted consciousness of the I Am, is the miracle worker that lifts the veil of illusion from the human eyes and reveals the perfect harmony that underlies this visible world.
God consciousness as the I Am of you, realized, maintains God’s perfect will in you. Without this miracle substance, the spiritual healer is helpless. Truth is adulterated. The seesaw of good and evil takes total control. False powers present false claims. God’s perfect creation is clouded by false opposites, and a world of suffering humanity struggles with problems that claim our total attention and refuse to disappear. Quickly the spiritual leader learns that his only hope for bringing order to this chaos is to contact the miracle worker, the I Am in the kingdom of God within himself. And this vital contact demands an ability to walk the middle path between good and evil.
That discipline of the sense mind is emphasized by Joel on page 36 of his book, The Art of Spiritual Healing. Please remember these words. Please practice these words because it is essential to successful healing. I quote:
“When you can sit beside a very sick person with no trace of fear because something inside of you is singing, ‘This is my beloved Son; I in the midst of you am mighty. I will never leave you nor forsake you,’ then you are a spiritual healer.”
Christ Jesus gave us one of the major secrets of spiritual healing when he said:
“Resist not evil.”
As you and I know, there is more to nonresistance than mere willpower. One of the great obstacles to nonresistance is the human ego. I mean ego in its broader sense. When you find a strong ego, you will not find a spiritual healer. The human ego is dedicated first to its own personal identity, and that identity refuses to accept the allness of God. It is committed to God and me. The ego also refuses to die daily. It is too interested in winning applause, getting ahead, proving its superiority. The ego feeds on the attention of others. It is committed to duality. It always sees God and. It separates itself and man from God; prevents wholeness, harmony, peace. It gives power to illusions. To everyone it says, “You are not the beloved Son of God. You are inferior to me.” The superiority complex of the human ego shuts down the pipeline between God and man, and it keeps man out of the very kingdom he seeks.
The spiritual healer must overcome the illusion of a personal identity. That is ego in its broad sense––personal identity––much more than vanity. There is no choice in this matter. Human ego always reacts to the good and to the evil of this world. It sees error; it fears power; it tries to correct error. It changes bad to good if it can. It changes wrong to right. The human ego judges every man. Now spiritual healing is none of this. The indwelling Christ judges no man, and one with Source is the theme of Christhood. Actually, Christ sees human life and human death as the same dream. Christ has no personal identity.
“Thou seest me; thou seest the Father.”
Christ gives no power to illusion. Christ knows no man after the flesh. Ego sees the drunk. Ego sees the dying. Ego sees the human race. Christ sees God appearing as individual man. And Christ says to all who appear as mortal:
“Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
The ego never gets out of the way. Christ within acknowledges only the spiritual identity of the so-called patient––the ever-presence of God without opposite and the non-reality of any appearance of imperfection in the creation of God. Oh yes, the ego is so conditioned to bear false witness. Christ within and only Christ within bears true witness to the perfect, invisible universe of divine spirit. Always the spiritual healer, who is a transparency for Christ, knows that all mortality is a dream; that both virtue and sin are part of the dream; that only spiritual reality exists. And in it there are no sinners, no sick people, no dying people, no diseases, no good health, no bad health, no man, no woman. No one here to change, correct or improve. The spiritual healer lives and knows the truth that God is the one and the only inhabitant of the spiritual universe. And this sets the healer and the patient free of the claim, free of the appearance of imperfection.
Have you accepted the spiritual reality of mankind? If not, it’s time we do. And I think right now is that time. In our meditation let us accept one infinite Father. And let us see something you may never have thought of, something that is going to prove vital in your healing work. Because there is one infinite spirit––listen carefully––you will never receive more than one patient. Oh, each patient will come to you with a new face and a new claim, but don’t be fooled. There are not many separate patients. It is always the one spirit appearing to you as a separate patient, but it is always the same one with a new material face. Oh, yesterday a baby needed help. Last night someone else needed help. This morning a woman with a problem needed help; and you’re thinking in terms of baby, the other person and the woman. But that’s the disguise. It’s the same patient always––always reporting a new claim, a new body, a new age––and there are no such things. The spiritual healer has one patient, and he knows it. He doesn’t have to heal that one patient again and again and again and again. Did you know that secret? You know it now because you are learning how to handle every claim that comes your way. Human life is an endless succession of sense illusions beginning with the illusion of human birth, stopping temporarily with the illusion of human death.
Our human view of the entire world is illusion. And believe it or not, it has a purpose. It has one magnificent purpose: To train you, to prepare you, to teach you, to convince you to surrender your dependency on personal resources. To relinquish your belief in your human capacities to solve the conflicts of the mortal world and to raise you to that level called illumination where you realize that only your total faith in the Presence and its perfect power and its infinite wisdom can lift you to higher realms of consciousness. Christ demonstrates this faith repeatedly, starting with the wilderness experience and ending with the complete faith in his Father by accepting crucifixion. And always the message was:
“Go thou and do likewise.”
As you lose all fear of so-called world powers through your knowledge of indivisible oneness with God, through your confidence in the truth that there is only one infinite Self, you will notice more healings are taking place through you. For fear separates us from God, whereas faith unites us with God and all that God is.
And another strange illusion that you should be alerted to, one that you are apt not to think about too often, but I’d like you to think about it now. The illusion of space is a very important consideration, and it can take you out of many a problem. Now we have a person calling upon you and asking you to meet a claim. This is your patient appearing to you externally. That is, outside your body is your patient, outside your home and probably outside the city. The patient is there; you are here––so it seems anyway––because at first glance there is space between you and the patient. The patient is there; you are here. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. In spiritual healing the concept of space is entirely false. Oh yes, there are two forms––you and the patient–– but there is only one I. There is only one Self. How can there be space between one Self? Which is the illusion? The space or the two selves? If one Self is the truth, the space is the illusion. It’s the other way around, isn’t it?
Ah, now go further. The I-Christ of you is the I-Christ of your patient. The I-Christ of you cannot be well and the same I-Christ of your patient be sick. In human life we buy into that ridiculous dream, the dream of twoness. Living in different spaces and different bodies, separated, individual.
But spiritual discernment does not look at superficial surfaces. Spiritual discernment convinces you in your heart, soul and consciousness that God is one. That One is universal, unseparated, the body of Christ––the one infinite, perfect, invisible spirit. Yes, the divine infinite son that your patient is now is always the perfect image and likeness of God and always will be; never can be a single, separated individual. And with that enlightened consciousness, you are impersonalizing your patient. One of the first things we learned in our last tape: impersonalize. Now you’re doing it. You learn to impersonalize the entire human race and to identify the invisible divine son in all, and don’t forget to include yourself.
Briefly, in the silence let us go now to the infinite kingdom of God within and rest there joyously, for you are standing in the only reality. That infinite kingdom within you is the infinite creation of God everywhere. Accept the infinite I, which can never leave you, the inseparable I of spiritual man everywhere. And know this truth. The infinite I, Father-Son within you, can never live in anyone finite or anything finite. In this realization you are blessing the world.
As you step out of the changing material dream of separate forms, your soul rises above the conflicts and visions of all human thought. The suffering of your patient must vanish as your Christ mind, free of world thought, sheds divine light where the human mind had seen error, darkness and disability in a mentally conditioned universe. I-Christ realized in you is I-Christ in your patient. This activates and awakens your patient from the dream of imperfection and restores the awareness of harmony. This is spiritual healing––Christ healing––and it will lift you into new dimensions of healing that break the illusion of power, illusions that currently hold our world in bondage; and it will reveal the living God to all men and in all men. Thank you, Father.
You are living the infinite way. That means you are accepting the spiritual identity of the universe and all its inhabitants. There are no human spirits. If a spiritual healer accepts people materially and acknowledges material differences between people, he will not succeed. Spirit is neither healthy nor unhealthy, rich nor poor, Greek nor Jew, male nor female. Spirit never changes identity. Spirit is always spirit, neither more nor less. The spiritual healer acknowledges only the spiritual identity of everyone without judgment, without criticism, without resentment.
The function of the spiritual healer is to be an impartial instrument for the revelation of God’s harmony, God’s perfect spiritual creation, God’s perfect power. He cannot be trapped into mind identifications, mind consciousness which believes in both good and evil. He can never conceive or acknowledge a conditioned universe which needs correction, nor can he acknowledge the presence of human material bodies. He has no personal likes or dislikes. He walks in a spiritual universe which never needs healing. He loves unconditionally. He forgives because there is nothing to forgive. He accepts spiritual wholeness where human perception sees separate physical forms. He does not stray outside the single eye of soul, which knows invisible angels where man sees visible mortals.
Listen carefully again, please. You must know that in this Christ consciousness the spiritual healer reveals there is no blind man; there is no adulteress; there is no dead Lazarus. He walks on the holy grounds of spirit in the omnipresent one Self. Spirit of God is his neighbor, his sole companion, the only inhabitant of the earth.
This spirit of which we speak is a dedicated Infinite Way student now appearing on earth as you. In this consciousness you are about God’s business, and you are governed by perfect divine life. You are led by perfect divine will. You are nurtured and protected by the glory of divine love. For this is the miracle worker, the undivided consciousness of the Son of God which inherits eternal life. This nonjudgmental Christ in you, as you, knows neither birth nor death and is always complete, serving truth and living in celestial harmony. This consciousness calls no man father upon the earth, for one divine source is his Father, which art in heaven. This consciousness says, “I and the eternal, infinite Father are one spirit, unseparated throughout eternity.” And it is speaking of your identity now. This consciousness says, “In Me there can be no error, because error denies the infinity of God.” And so in you error must be a false appearance. Your oneness with God precludes the possibility of error in you. When it appears, know it must be illusion.
In this fourth principle you rest with the confidence that you have impersonalized your patient, have nothingized his condition. And now in the spiritual identity of one Self you rest, one with the perfect creator––unseparated from the eternal, unseparated from the infinite, unseparated from the creative substance of the universe in which error cannot take form. When you meet daily problems with these healing principles, the life of God lives and expresses as your life.
Walking in the middle path is the way to nonresistance, unswayed by good or evil, anchored in spiritual reality. Spiritual healers have learned, however, that human thought is too easily provoked into reaction. Human thought reacts, retaliates, interprets. But more than making judgment, human thought builds the mental images that take form in the external world of matter, which is not the kingdom of God. Human thought re-creates reality into material images which man thinks he lives in. Human thought invents good and evil where God’s perfect creation is and then becomes a slave to its own believed created images. Human thought invents strong hearts and weak hearts, healthy bodies and sick bodies, good weather and bad weather. Every problem in our re-created world of images is composed of the synthetic substance which Christ pinpointed in one revealing sentence:
“Take no thought for your life.”
For we are not dealing with disease, disaster and destruction. Nor are we dealing with death. Nor are we dealing with human conditions. We are dealing with human thought, which is a counterfeit of divine thought. And it is these projected shadows of human thought without divine substance that present counterfeit persons, places and things to fill our make-believe world.
Come now, which horse do you ride––the white horse of truth of spirit or the many-colored horses of the mind, the emotions, human thoughts? Let us ride the horse of spirit, the white horse. Let us in the deep silence build a vacuum, a vacuum of no-thought––no-thought which does not admit into consciousness world thought; no-thought which honors the allness of God, the allness of divine thought, the intelligence of the infinite source. In no-thought we rest with the confidence that our Father knoweth our needs and is fulfilling every need with divine grace.
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And as we rest here, we are building an impregnable fortress, so that when world thought knocks at the door of our mind, it finds that only the Christ mind is at home with a clear vision of God’s perfect universe always under divine government. In no-thought you break the world illusion of power, and you open the door to the omnipotence of divine thought, which has behind it the fullness of infinity to enforce, maintain and sustain all life in the image and likeness of God.
Let’s have a short rest and see then what the Father has prepared for us.
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Our spiritual healing is that sin, disease, death have no external reality. They exist only as an illusory world belief, a concept. Our concept of this world will keep changing, but the reality and the perfection of the spiritual universe, which is all that is here, will never change. This perfect creation made of self-perpetuating, self-maintaining spirit is the finished kingdom of God, in which no war has ever been fought, no disease has ever appeared, no soul has ever died. The function of your human mind is not to create but to realize that the whole creation of God is already complete. Nothing can be added; nothing can be taken away.
The function of your mind is to be an instrument for your soul, which expresses divine life, divine law and divine wisdom. All the infinite qualities of God function through your soul, and when your mind is receptive to your soul, these perfect qualities come through your soul pure, unadulterated by finite human thought and manifest as the harmony and productivity of your life. The moment your thinking mind makes finite human decisions, you shut God out of your life; and you remain in the mortal dream of opposites––good health and then bad health, substance and perhaps lack, peace and inevitably war, harmony and discord.
Human thought is the great illusion of life, but when you stand in the vacuum of no-thought, which is the secret place of the most high, God makes your decisions. God handles your problems. Source, which knows all, releases truth through your soul, directs your mind perfectly and frees you from the tyranny of false sense perception.
Realization is not visualization. The Infinite Way teaches that your realization of spiritual truth is the miracle healer. Visualization is mental, not spiritual. There is a borderline when we try to manipulate matter with our thought, with our willpower; and the problem is that we are trying to change bad matter to good matter––all in the same material dream. But when you transcend the belief in matter and transcend the finite, distorting human mind, you are above mental visualization in the realm of soul realization, where illusions of matter melt. The world of the senses loses its false power, and spiritual consciousness reveals the grace of the infinite maintaining a sufficiency for all your needs. Remember the difference between realization and visualization.
In the spiritual realm there is no laying on of hands. The healer never touches the patient. All physical contact between patient and healer is obsolete. Human words are obsolete; surgery and medicine are obsolete; acupuncture and chiropractic are obsolete. Every form of physical and mental treatment is obsolete. Soul realization expressing the perfect government of God overflows into the visible world as a divine blessing. The wind of the hurricane finds no one to hurt. The bullet of the assassin finds no one to kill. The poison of the virus is revealed as a shadow of mortal thought and finds no one to infect. Divine substance realized in your soul dehypnotizes your mind, and spiritual man walks freely on the earth.
The human mind has no capacity to demonstrate the power and the presence of God. Only your soul reaches into the kingdom of God. And in many ways the Bible has been telling you just that––that mind hypnosis is normal to all mortals because the natural man lives in slavery to the world mind. You must develop your spiritual center to remove the mask from all material appearances, or you may be as hypnotized as your patient.
The fifth chapter of Matthew teaches us to train our focus from looking out with the mind to looking within, within your soul. Outside you see a cripple, a man with a withered arm, a girl in a coma. This is the external world viewed with mind vision. But now let’s look at Matthew 5:25 in the Moffatt translation, and we read this mystical advice from Christ:
“Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison; truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.”
Quite different from the King James version but basically identical. So whether you read the Moffatt translation or the King James version, you’re being taught by God that your mind is always a victim of world appearances. Your five senses surround your mind. They project sense images of a cripple, a withered arm and a comatose girl. Where do these images come from? To the world they’re real, and we want to help them. We want to help the cripple to walk. We want to see that withered arm stretch out. We want to see that comatose girl wake up. But I have a question for you: How can you do what God has not done? Now look again at the words of Christ Jesus, and you will find your answer right there:
“Be quick and make terms with your opponent.”
For 2,000 years man has ignored these inspired words direct from infinite divine intelligence. What they’re saying is: Instead of looking outside with your mind, go within. Look inside your soul. Do it instantly. That instant focus within, instead of without, is how you come to terms with your opponent. Who is your opponent? World mind, the cosmic liar who adulterates human perception with images not made by God. This is your adversary, your opponent.
These cosmic mind projections of world thought appearing as the disabilities of our world are very convincing. They’re especially persuasive when they work on your emotions, and this is the meaning of on the way to court. If you’re not careful, a series of mental traps will trick you. Your opponent will turn the case over to the judge, meaning: Your mind will pronounce judgment. It will positively identify the physical problem as a reality. It will be swayed by the appearances. And this verdict of your mind turns you over to the jailer, and the door is locked behind you. You have let beliefs in the reality of a cripple, a withered arm and a girl in a coma into your mind. Now there’s no way to get them out. Your karmic debt is the conviction that material defects exist in God’s creation. And you’re going to pay for this belief with your own material, mortal sense of life. This is your last halfpenny, or in the King James version, your uttermost farthing that you will pay.
Now then, what does the next mention of consciousness tell us? You are close to it, but you must be willing to work for it. It doesn’t come like a sudden bolt of lightning. It’s an inner movement, and it begins with your yearning for God’s pure truth, plus your understanding that your senses can never transmit truth. You can only make the God contact through the silence of your senses. For in that silence, your mind will not react to the appearances of matter––of material images of cripples, withered arms, comatose girls, dying people. And as you maintain that inner vacuum of no sense reaction to outer stimuli, while the images that appear in your eye do not move you, you are indifferent to the nature of them and the contents of those images as they pass before you. You do not identify or respond to the images. You do not judge the images. The movement or quality of the images does not affect you. You accept all images as mere mental shadows without substance, without reality, without divine ordination, without power.
As you behold your patient in this vacuum of sense thought, unmoved by what you see, holding your five senses in a state of no resistance, no judgment, you are making it impossible for the world mind to turn you over to the judge. You are breaking the illusion of power which convinces mankind that mortal forms are real and can suffer from heart ailments which deny and defy the all-power of God. In that discipline of standing fast in no-thought, you are confirming your faith in God as the only creative principle, the only source––the maintaining, sustaining power of the universe which makes all appearances of the power of evil false and impossible.
This way of life repeated 70 times 7, and 70 times 7 again and again and again––until it is your nature to remain unaffected by material images, removes the beam of hypnosis from your eyes and releases the pure light of your soul, opens the door to your kingdom within and takes you to the throne of I Am, which is the perfect will of God in action.
By your willingness to discipline yourself, to discipline your sense reaction to matter, you have upheld the divinity of your patient. You have accepted their spiritual identity as the perfect image and likeness of God, their Father. You have refused to believe that spirit can be crippled or disabled or comatose. You have not seen them as person, but perfect spiritual children of God. You have impersonalized your patient. You have nothingized your patient’s material condition because spirit has no material condition. You are being true to the one great mystical secret which every spiritual healer knows and practices every day. This is it:
Only God is happening.
Only God is happening. Never waste a single moment analyzing the problem you’ve been called upon to heal. That’s your first major temptation. Instead, freeze your sense reaction instantly. In one motion take no thought, and in that same motion go straight to God through your soul. Practice, practice, practice. You have refused to recognize the problem. You have not accepted the false appearance of person. You have not violated a single divine law. Now you have passed through the false powers of world mind, unwavering, not denying your heavenly Father as the one life of all.
The dream of mortality is almost gone. Is there a God and a patient? Of course not. There is one, and that one is the only one––one undivided, infinite spirit where you are, and where the patient appears––one. One divine life where you are, and where your patient appears. One omnipresent, divine power where you are and your patient appears. Can spirit be less than perfect? What else is present beside spirit? Is a claim of error real or imagined?
Now rest above the senses, above the mind, above the beliefs of the mind, letting human thought float by, knowing God is ISing throughout infinity. There is no patient. My patient and I are the one spirit of God, unconditioned, unseparated, perfect and undefiled. You are seeing through the illusion. God’s perfection is our perfection. Everywhere I Am is running a perfect universe. In this we continue resting in the word, confident. Then truth in consciousness will reveal itself visibly as the absence of error.
Now then, when the Bible reports that a cripple walked, a withered arm was straightened, a 12-year-old girl awakened from a coma, Christ Jesus is teaching that there is no God and man. God manifests as individual being without man, without separation. But only when you are one with source will this wholeness, this harmony and peace become visible. When you realize that every patient is not a human being, but God appearing as individual being, then your patient will manifest the qualities of divine life; and so will you. As you witness Christ behind the eyes of every individual, your own soul faculties will awaken to the joys and harmonies that invisibly surround you. Disease and death will cease to have an external reality when you feel the power of silent grace.
We are now moving into a new age of spiritual healing. Man will discover that God is here; that God’s creation is here as invisible spiritual man, universe and body; that the visible is unreal, including sin, sickness, habits and even persons. The knowledge that through physical senses we behold mirages will soon make more spiritually conscious souls discern reality. And that special extra something that adds new dimensions of life to your experience will reveal the magic of your environment like an unseen source with a new fragrance bringing enchantment from heaven to transform the earth. We see this all around you these days. The transition is taking place. The awareness is taking root. Eyes are opened. You can make them open faster. You can release thoughts to reality.
I leave one parting thought with you, a thought which I hope can hasten the transformation in our universe. During next week, take this idea with you. It can make a very big difference in your living and in your healing work. Become aware that only God can happen because only God is. You have thousands of years of false thought to transcend, but much has already been transcended; and much invisible help is being given. You can be sure that the consciousness of those who have walked before us is always with us to help us become aware of the invisible presence of God as the only reality.
So I recommend that you take 30 seconds right now to remind yourself that God is happening and only God. Regardless of what your senses may have read in the morning newspaper or heard on the morning TV, or what accumulation of beliefs have welled up within you through the years, the truth is that God is happening now and only God. Hold that in your consciousness. Start with 30 seconds during the day. You’ll find that the accumulation of this truth will do something for you that very little else can do. It will give you an unexpected confidence. You will release many of the fears that accumulate beneath the surface, fears that you don’t even know you have, little fears:
“My daughter went to school today. She forgot something. Will she be well? Did she get a ride? Will the children there be kind to her? She was sick when she left. How is she?” Things that weigh on your mind. And, oh, if you can take an inventory of those things, they’re so numerous. The entire inner self is flooded with aggressive thought. And only God is happening today. Have you accepted that? You know at this instant your realization of that can prevent the fear that you’re worrying about? You know the power in that truth? When that truth becomes your living consciousness, for you the world is new.
But now comes the application of that truth. You receive a call for help for a problem or an unwanted condition. Now how will you start to meet that request? Here’s a suggestion, perhaps a way you may not have thought of. To begin, instantly meet the claim by knowing that only God is happening. Good start, isn’t it?–– whatever the claim. Oh, they told you about a lot of conditions that were wrong, didn’t they? But is that the real claim? No. The claim is that God is not happening. That’s the claim. Whoever called you said––no matter what they said––they were saying, “God is not happening.” But you know that only God is happening, so every condition, every problem must be a claim that God is asleep. Now take the claim and reverse it instantly, silently. Don’t tell the patient about it––silently in your consciousness.
You heard the patient say, “My arm is broken.” Right then, right then, you are saying silently within yourself––not to the patient––within yourself you are saying, “Only God is happening, and there are no broken arms in God.” Now get steady with yourself. Rest there a moment. Forget the broken arm. Forget the claim, whatever it was. Rest inside, secure in the truth that God is happening and only God; that God is the life of the patient; that God is the spiritual body of the patient. And any time the thought of a broken arm tries to enter your mind, meet it with the quiet knowledge that infinite God life is all that is present––contains no broken arm, no cancer, no tumor, no this, no that––and then let God in you do the healing. Do you trust that? Can you do that? Let God in you––after you know the truth––can you let God do the healing by maintaining no thought about the problem? Christ did. Some of us learned to do it and it works…
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Herb: From the island of Kauai, greetings from spirit to spirit, soul to soul. It is truly joy to welcome you again to this new series of important healing tapes to help prepare you for the infinite way healing seminar next Easter.
By now you should have your invitation to the seminar. And if not, and you want one or another one perhaps for a friend, please get in touch with me at my home.
[Herb Fitch’s mailing address followed.]
Our healing seminar will begin next Easter on a Thursday night, April 12, 1990, and will extend to April 16th. It will take place just outside Chicago at a very lovely resort called Oakbrook Hills Hotel and Conference Center. And I know that our work there will be very, very special.
We’re going to learn to practice new dimensions in spiritual healing. Many infinite way students do not have a specific idea about the nature and the method of spiritual healing or just what spiritual healing can be and cannot be. Many friends call for a spiritual healing. Usually there are those who only call when everything else has failed. Then there are others who lean heavily on spiritual healing and on the practitioner, and all too often they expect only mundane results, not spiritual unfoldment. This seminar will be special in that its purpose will be to make you self-sustaining, confident that you are functioning under perfect divine law. To accomplish this, we must say many things that we cannot say to normal students, things that are only appropriate when the issues that we face appear to be life and death. We must speak in more absolute terms because upon you much depends. Some of you may be shocked by what we say, but be sure that it is all necessary for your own success.
We are going to brush aside comfortable concepts that lull us into a present dream state, until we are ready and awake, and not plunge into a flow of seemingly incurable conflicts. This seminar will be unique for many of you. If you are a healing practitioner seeking advanced techniques or if you feel an inner calling to be a transparency for the light, I believe this seminar will and can play a vital role in your journey to higher realms of consciousness.
The power and scope of spiritual healing are virtually unknown in our mental and material world. Most people know it only by name and usually by hearsay. Exactly what is spiritual healing? What makes it so different? Why is it totally unlike any other type of healing known to the world? How can society learn to depend on spiritual healing to lift itself above world problems that no man or nation has been able to solve? We will find all the answers, we hope, in these tapes that are to follow.
One feature above all distinguishes spiritual healing apart from every type of healing on earth––that pearl of great price, that unique feature which is the very substance of all Christ healing and which can govern every student who seeks the invisibility and the invincibility and the dominion of divine omnipotence. That feature was revealed on earth when the Son of Man declared,
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”
And that’s one eternal truth proclaimed by the Master of Masters. You will find the termination of all disease; the end of every war; the triumph of man over every human problem; the path to life eternal without an aging process, without disability, without deterioration and without human limitations. Whoever contacts the power of resurrection will radiate Christ healing to the world and will walk in the kingdom of eternal life, lifting his brothers on earth. That is what we are here to learn how to do.
Spiritual healing is the gift of God to his eternal son. These Christ words make every man a spiritual healer who hears them within. They are the words of power direct from divine source. They are the substance of divine life, and they are backed by the unlimited resources of infinite spirit. These words tell us another secret––that no man is a healer. Only Christ power released through man, through his immortal soul, can perform the greater works. And finally, these words reveal one of the most exciting truths that is destined to change our world. A truth so unsuspected that our realization of it in fullness will make all these baffling, horrifying evils on earth dissolve into total nothingness. That truth awaiting your recognition is simply this; please jot it down in your book of things to know forever:
NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN GOD’S CREATION NEEDS HEALING.
Nothing in God’s creation needs healing. When you truly believe that, know that and are true to the truth of that, you will be one of the world’s great spiritual healers because that is your number one healing truth. I know that when you learn it well, the world will beat a path to your door. If you cannot be persuaded that anything or anyone created by God needs healing, correction or improvement, you will experience the healing power of Christ. On the other hand, if you can be persuaded that something in God’s creation needs healing, I can tell you now your patients will not receive divine help because you will be separated from God’s universe in that belief. You will separate yourself. If you believe in a God who is imperfect, you are believing in what does not exist. There is no such God, and your divided consciousness will deceive you into a false relationship with the God who does exist. Today we must move out of your divided consciousness. We must open your eyes to the healing Christ within today. We must restore the conviction that divine love, divine wisdom, divine power have no opposition and no opposite; that they are always maintaining God’s perfect creation everywhere in the universe, including where you stand.
And so now with your inner ear listen carefully, not for sounds but for meaning, until your whole being is receptive to a presence within you––a presence with a message from the kingdom to your soul––a message saying to you with total truth that only your enlightened soul can hear:
“I, I am the resurrection and the life. I am come that ye may have life and have it more abundantly.”
When the Christ within presents through you this message, illusions of error will be released in your patient revealing God’s perfect and eternal idea where suffering has fooled the world mind. Christ entering your consciousness is the healer, the miracle worker, the resurrection from the grave of illusion; and this inner revelation of a perfect spiritual reality is the true spiritual healing as contrasted to medical, mental, metaphysical, holistic and other types of healing. It is a matter of degree. If we see improvements to make life more bearable in our material consciousness or mental consciousness, we overlook the whole self. Physical healing, financial stability, emotional balance compel us to the most direct route to fulfill these needs to establish peace as quickly as possible. And in our anxiety to restore a relative degree of comfort, we seek immediate relief from pain or stress, while overlooking the long-range recovery needed on higher levels.
Without realizing the total possibilities available, we fall into a strange trap. We do not expect the maximum from our healers. We seek temporary repairs for human bodies, and that is precisely what we get, rarely more. Our patch-up job––it may work for a while. But later when it fails, if it fails, we seek more temporary relief psychically, mentally, medically, psychologically, economically––never realizing that all our human healings are in the dream––the dream mind, the dream body, the dream life that imitates the true creation of God. So healings are temporary, fragmentary because they are not backed by God power or God substance. The simple fact is that these healings are performed by mortals, for mortals, in time that God did not create.
And there is still another side to this picture that has never truly been presented to the public. When the patient dies on the operating table, where is God power? Does God heal one patient and not another? When a condition is arrested but returned, did God change God’s mind? Or was God ever in the picture in the first place? The truth is that the limitations of matter and mind are the limitations of material, mental healing. They are inevitable.
World mind is the very substance of mortality, and all mortals are bound by the same limitations of time, space and matter. Mortality worships two powers: good power, evil power. All mortals stumble into this same bottomless pit, worshipping a make-believe God who creates good and evil and then impotently stands by while evil powers kill, terrorize or violate helpless powers of good.
So you see, mortals have a very superficial concept of life. It begins with birth; it ends with death; and within this fragmentary framework all so-called healings are very shallow, very partial and very temporary, just like mortality itself. The function of the spiritual healer is to bypass material law with its belief in two powers, not to deal with human limitations or human bodies. The kingdom of the spiritual healer is not of this world. He never prays to God outside his own being. He never makes the mistake of treating the symptoms of a disease or even of treating the disease itself. This is very important.
When you can learn to dissolve karma, you can transcend pain. You can reveal celestial harmony, boundless peace, wholeness where the human eyes see disease, disability, even death. All spiritual healing secrets can be learned. We call them esoteric because they are performed by invisible mystical techniques beyond the cognition of the senses of man, beyond the perimeter of the human brain. They defy understanding, but they work when your consciousness is awakened to the invisible spiritual reality around you. And when these mystical principles work for you, when they happen, when they manifest, they prove beyond the shadow of doubt that the power of God is available and ever ready to reveal the divinity of all men. Your soul, your spirit, your life are now immortal. The spiritual healer accepts your immortality and contacts the divine life source and lets the resurrecting Christ reveal Its perfection, Its perfect presence where you stand.
Forsaking all human concepts of health and of life, the spiritual healer is one with the truth of God voiced in scripture or within his soul. He is never interested in human authorities who are misled by world beliefs. The one, the only authority he obeys is his heavenly father, the perfect creator of reality, who is also the father of all spiritual immortal. The garment of spirit is substituted for the garment of skin. The spiritual healer knows his patient is spirit, the Son of God, and that his Father has laid down the flawless rules of spiritual healing. No man can improve them. By obeying these rules, these divine principles, invites infinite Christ power to break the hypnosis of the dream; to reveal the pure creation without evil, without darkness; to dissolve all karma; to replace the illusion of defective, deteriorating mortal bodies and mortal limitation with the original divine blessing of harmony and eternal perfection.
When you experience the changeover from human mind to Christ mind, which is the renewal of mind spoken of by Paul, all things become possible. As a spiritual healer living in the spiritual consciousness of life, you are God led, God fed, God-directed, God-sustained. Linked to Christ within, you build receptivity to God power. As Christ love pours through you, the walls of fear and distrust between people and nations come tumbling down. The water flows over parched land. Divine joy fills the soul of man with new hope, new understanding, new life.
I found on page 24 in Joel’s book, The Art of Spiritual Healing, this statement:
“People of any nation can be saved, of any race, of any family, if they have learned to pray and to open themselves so that the Voice can speak within them––direct them, lead them, guide them, feed them, clothe them, house them.”
We now in stillness contemplate these words. All nations can be saved. All people can be saved by the resurrecting Christ within you. Within you is the potential for a better world. Release that resurrecting Christ within you and let Christ do the work. This is the task at hand.
Right now God is ISing. You do not have to ask God to be or to do anything at all. You stand in the infinite silence awaiting his living WORD. Don’t push that WORD away.
“Father, I await your words, your WORD, your grace. I am ready to serve. I am ready to know your truth and to follow it. I am ready to live it daily. I am ready to lay down my life that your life in me may live, for I know that your life is my life; and I have no other. I am immortal life now. All sense of mortality has been my dream. All sense of a life separate and apart from the father within has been my dream. I cannot have such a life. That is a world dream, and I no longer subscribe to it.”
Now let us plant within ourselves new healing principles based on the knowledge that nothing in God’s creation needs healing. Let us open the door of consciousness to infinite God power by trying to understand who and what God really is. Is God a man or is God the creative principle of life? Is God a separate individual or is God my Self and the Self of all? Is God finite or infinite? Does God, the creative principle of life, say, “It is my good pleasure to give you the kingdom”? Do I trust that? Do you trust that? Does the world trust that? If God is infinite intelligence, what can any man tell infinite intelligence that God does not already know? Is God love infinite? Is it available to saint and to sinner? Then what is hate but a concept. What is stupidity but a concept. If God is infinite intelligence, love and power, what is a problem? Is there a God of good and a God of evil? Does God love helping young people and not old people? Did God say, “My grace is thy sufficiency in all things” to young people as well as to old people? Are God’s children underprivileged? Do you see? Divine truth reveals that God’s grace is infinite. God’s love, intelligence and power are infinite. God’s abundance is infinite.
Then what is wrong in the human picture? We do not believe God. That’s the truth. We shorten his kingdom. We believe God is for some, not others. We believe there is a power that can keep God’s love away from one group, from one race, from one color. We believe there is a power that can cripple, hurt or kill us. We believe God is not the only power, and we accept these anti-Christ powers because we have seen them operate among us. But now we face the real cause of our problem. We have accepted these problems with our human mind. We have not accepted these problems with our Christ mind. Think on that. The same human mind has also accepted you as a human being. That is not the way for a spiritual healer. A correction must be made.
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Let us be still a moment longer as we contemplate how we are going to make that correction.
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Accept God as your Father. If you do, then you must also accept the Word of God. Now God said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” So if you believe on one hand that God will never leave you or forsake you, can you on the other hand say, “I have a problem; I am going blind; I am losing my job; my husband is leaving me; my child is deathly ill”?
In the presence of God your Father, all things are provided. His grace is always your sufficiency in all things. His intelligence always knows your needs, and his power always provides these needs. Then what is your real problem? You do not believe that God is your Father, and so you cannot believe that God is fulfilling his promise never to leave or forsake thee or to provide a sufficiency of everything you need. And why do you fear? Why do you doubt? Because you are making decisions with a human mind, and that human mind must separate you from God even while God declares that he is inseparable from you. The human mind can never know God. It doesn’t matter how honest you want to be, how God-fearing you want to be. A human mind can never accept the kingdom which God has already given you. As a spiritual healer you will learn how to use your Christ mind, which lives in God’s truth, which knows that God’s perfection is your perfection and which refuses to abandon you to mortal appearances, mortal limitations, mortal beliefs.
Let’s establish a principle now. We’ll call it: The first principle of your spiritual healing consciousness.
1. Perfection is the infinite law of God.
Whether you’re a blind man, a cripple or a thief, your Christ mind knows that perfection is always present because God is always present. And when you doubt that perfection is present, you are not in your Christ mind.
Now let’s establish a second principle.
2. Your patient has one Father, God.
And everything God promised you, he also promised your patient. That includes love, power, intelligence, abundance, grace in all things. Therefore, whatever appearance denies the WORD of God must be a lie; must be a false image without law, without power, without substance. Those are two very simple principles. Now let’s go on. Only God’s perfect child stands before you. Now you know that is true in your Christ mind, misperceived by the human mind. Call no man your father upon the earth. And so the father of your patient is always God, the one infinite Father of all; and God is always maintaining infinite, eternal perfection. And if you don’t revert to a human mind, you will know that is true. When you accept the appearance, you’re out of Christ mind, into human mind. You’re no longer a spiritual healer. Christ mind accepts the WORD of God with total faith.
Now these are your two principles which form the foundation before you even learn techniques. These are the foundation of spiritual consciousness. Everyone coming to you is God’s child, perfect as his heavenly Father. Your spiritual treatment of that patient cannot begin until you are honoring the principle that this is the child of God before me, made of spirit not matter, perfect as the Father.
And so in your human mind you may find persons objectionable, distasteful, or what you call bad character, even repulsive. That’s not the way of the spiritual healer because it’s not the way of truth. It’s accepting the human mind as a judge. So you cannot be lifted into a rage or resentment and also be a transparency for the light. That is what we call malpractice––malpracticing your patient and betraying the reality of your own identity.
Now when Jesus teaches resist not evil, judge not after the appearance, he is emphasizing that any reaction to any imperfection is a lie and shuts you off from the power of a perfect God. You must go beneath the surface of that and see, too, that your nonresistance must also go beneath the surface––deep hates, superstitions, resentments, feelings from one generation passed on to the next. These must be uprooted so that you can face every individual, every circumstance with equanimity. And when your consciousness even tries to accept every inhabitant of earth as spirit made in the image and likeness of God, you will understand why all things that are possible to God are possible to you; and the power of God will begin to pour through you in increased measure. These two monumental principles must become bone of your bone. So please accept this assignment.
Daily develop an automatic acceptance of the divine presence by accepting the divinity of everyone you meet. Deny divinity to anyone, ANYONE, and you remove yourself from divine grace. There is no escape. Each one you see is the invisible divine Self. Don’t be fooled by the human mask. Don’t be fooled by disabled bodies. To human eyes divine life is not visible. It may appear to you in a disabled form because mortal vision cannot form an infinite image. Every human error, sin, sickness, evil presents a false sense image about the perfect, infinite, divine life; or what appears to us as person. You must know the truth; believe the truth; act upon the truth. Only divine life is present. Only the child of God is present, not the visible form. Forgive everyone their seeming indiscretions. See no thief where a thief appears, no adulteress where an adulteress appears, no person where an individual appears; and the light of Christ will bless you with healing power.
Practice 15 minutes daily––more if possible––never less, until you know the life of every patient is divine; and all God has is his. When you have a perfect universe and a perfect patient––not before––you are qualified to perform the function of a spiritual healer: a transparency for the immaculate, divine creation. You are above human judgment, above the divided consciousness that lives in two worlds, one good and one evil.
Now, now you’re ready to learn practical techniques to part the Red Sea, to move the mountain, to command Lazarus to come forth. The human race would never deteriorate. Mothers would never die in childbirth. Breast cancer would never be the disease that women fear most. Truth and the discipline to apply that truth can make you an effective servant of God. But you know, great healers have even something greater than this, something more that can’t be memorized or simulated. They possess that intangible essence called Divine Love. This love coupled with the knowledge and instinct for divine law releases the power of God on earth. If love moves through you animating the healing principles that you learn, nothing is impossible, for the power of divine love in the midst of you is infinite without limitation. So with reverence for the divine works, we will witness the deepest devotion to the responsibility we are about to share.
Let us now stand in the body temple not made with hands, meek unto the infinite light, ready to inherit the kingdom of reality.
“Speak Father; thy servant heareth.”
These are your healing techniques. Healing revolves around the mystical truth that God is one. Without this sacred truth you are deceived before you start. God is immortal spirit. God is one immortal spirit, and there is no other one. There is no God and you. No God and mortality. No God and a patient. No God and a man, woman or child. Just God. It may take you a year or even ten years to prove that principle to yourself. But when you practice it faithfully and observe how the truth changes the conditions around you, the appearances, and the freedom of your patients, you will know that you have discovered one of the great healing principles. That is Christ consciousness, as different from mortal and material consciousness as anything can be. Mortal, material consciousness judges. But ask yourself, how can you be sick if God is well? Christ consciousness judges no man. It says, “God is not sick, so you are not sick because you and the Father are one.”
Remember this important principle: It is called impersonalization. Understand it, and your healing practice will be bountiful. Fail to understand it, and your ignorance will make healing very difficult, perhaps impossible. There is no room for quibbling here. Impersonalize means there are no persons; only spirit, Paul said: “There is neither male nor female, Greek nor Jew.” And here is another tip: Don’t waste your breath trying to explain this principle to anyone. They will not understand. Now let’s sharpen our understanding of the full meaning and application of the great principle of impersonalization. Later you’ll learn how to impersonalize yourself, but we’ll save that principle until we have established a few other thoughts.
The second principle is nothingness. As you know, nothing needs repair in God’s creation because God is a perfect creator. Whatever God created is forever perfect. The Son of God is the spiritual substance of God. The Self of everyone is the spirit of God, perfect forever. Your mind and your senses personalize the spirit of God so that you do not see or experience spirit. You are hypnotized by mortal mind, called devil or Satan in the Bible, into personalizing spirit. Just as you imagine persons where God’s spirit is, you imagine conditions in and on these persons. And because the persons are not there, but spirit is, can there be conditions on the person who is not there? When you impersonalize a patient, you realize his reality is invisible spirit. Now you nothingize his condition. Spirit has no conditions. Therefore, his condition is as imaginary as anything else that God did not create. The condition does not exist in God’s spiritual substance, and your patient is God’s spiritual substance. Therefore, his so-called condition is not his reality. His perfect spirit is maintained in perfection by God. The material forms that we have accepted is not even a person but a world mind image projected subliminally, seen within ourselves, and imagined through our five senses as an external person.
All persons are the illusion we entertain about spirit. Similarly, defects that we seem to see in persons are also illusions we entertain about people who are not there. Cancer appears in the colon of a person, but spirit is the reality of the person. Is cancer in the spirit? No. Then where is the cancer? The answer is breathtaking: We have an imperfect concept of God’s perfect creation, and the cancer is in our imperfect concept. Automatically now we substitute persons for spirit without thinking about it, physical bodies for the one spiritual body without thinking about it; and subliminally we give physical conditions to the bodies we have imagined without thinking about it. And in this imperfect concept of God’s perfect creation we try to live healthy, happy, harmonious, fulfilled lives in peaceful coexistence with our neighbors. And when conflicts arise in the dream, we blame it on human greed and lust for power; never suspecting that the fabric of all human lives is a synthetic mental substance that must disintegrate in the illusion of time.
Before healing ourselves and others of human conditions, listen to several important statements from one of the world’s most successful spiritual healers, Joel Goldsmith. And if the words sound familiar, it’s because you have read them many times. These quotations come from chapter 9 of Joel’s book The Thunder of Silence. Quote:
“…what we see as body is not body: It is a mental image within our own thought ––a universal mental concept, individualized within us. There is no such thing as a material body: There is only a material concept of body. There is no such thing as a material universe: There are only material concepts of the one spiritual universe. As long as we accept a material concept of universe, we are under the laws of matter, but we are free as soon as we begin to understand that we live and move and have our being in the first chapter of Genesis where man is made in the image and likeness of God, or Spirit, and that the Soul of God is the Soul of man, the life of God is the life of man, the mind of God is the mind of man, the body of God is the body of man.”
I might add, if you have not read chapter 9 recently in Beyond Words and Thoughts, give yourself another treat and a treatment. Read it again, and you’ll be surprised how much you’ve learned since the last time you read it.
When you impersonalize your patients and nothingize their problems, you are following in the footsteps of Christ. And then you will notice a change in yourself, a lightness, the strange freedom of detachment because in freeing them from the body concept, you really free yourself; and you feel it. You begin to experience your own spiritual body as the temple of the Holy Ghost. The invisible substance of all forms on earth is God. And to the degree that this truth is realized by your soul, the cripple will walk again; the blind man will see again; the nations of the world will lay down their arms and bathe in the pool of infinite love.
Impersonalizing, removing the belief in persons, also means removing criticism of persons. So if you’re still judging the sins of an individual, you’re not an instrument for his healing. As long as you accept person––personal evil; personal error; personal sin, disease––you need as much help as your patient. God is the only creator, and God is not the creator of evil. Spirit is the only substance, and the spirit contains no evil. There is no person, only spirit. Therefore, evil can never be in a person. Evil has no creator. Evil has only the fabric of illusion in which to appear. The illumined realize that all evil is a projection from world mind, which is not a mind, and that evil has no person in which it can be. The cancer that frightens us is not in the spirit of the patient, but in the false or illusory world mind which projects the false image of matter into the eye of the beholder.
Nothingize is the principle which is the realization that the spiritual creation is infinite without a material opposite and contains nothing––no disease, disability, deterioration, evil, darkness, sin or iniquity. For spirit is pure, unconditioned, perfect forever. It is wise in advance, without waiting for a patient, to nothingize all evil conditions. The dedicated healer begins his day every day by impersonalizing the human race, eliminating material mortality from his consciousness, and then nothingizing all evil.
This is how Joel actually spent his early morning, usually from 3:30 a.m. until the click told him that he was invulnerable to persons and conditions. Jesus himself never faced a sick man or an evil condition. His consciousness was trained to remain above universal hypnotism. “Who convinceth me of sin?” he said. Is not the thief on the cross the perfect child of God? Did God create an adulteress, or is the adulteress man’s misperception of spirit? Who created the girl in the coma? Which is real: God or evil? Is God the only power, or does evil have power to change God’s spiritual creation? Can life of God be sick or die? Always the spiritual healer is faced with a paradox––the lie he sees and the truth he knows. If he fights the lie, he loses; and his patient’s condition continues. If he sees through the illusion of the condition and calmly puts up his sword with confidence that divine perfection is maintaining itself, God’s law is working in spite of appearances, then he stands fast in the face of universal beliefs; and his fidelity to spirit will prevail.
We have another healing principle. Because the qualities of spirit are infinite, there’s no place where there are opposite qualities. Where the life of spirit is, death cannot be. Where the infinite Self of God is, no other self can be. And therefore, your third principle is a universal truth; and that is where you must rivet your consciousness.
Principle 3: You are Divine Being Now. Your Neighbor is Divine Being Now.
You must expand this truth by accepting that because everyone is divine being, God is the only Self in God’s creation. Now look beneath the surface of these precious words. From the infinite One comes the words:
“All that I have is thine.”
God is the only one. All that God has is thine, so who are you? If you have all that God has, and God is the only one––can you handle this truth? Is it too big for you? Are you afraid to know that if you have all that God has, you must be God, and that what you appear to be must be a false, graven image? Can you rise to the same pure realization that compelled Christ Jesus to say, “I and the Father are one”?
Impersonalize every patient. Nothingize every condition. Stand in the shocking truth:
I am the only Self.
Three indomitable principles for the spiritual healer. One I where the patient stands. One I where I stand. This is Christ Power.
You only have to ask and you will be added to the new group.
Iamwithin@gmail.com
Bill
I am feeling pretty strongly that we are going to have an in depth 26 week intense study of the classes from the Consciousness Transformed which Joel stated needed to be studied. This is for serious students only and will be by invitation not for the general public. So it may be a closed class. There is no charge for these classes. The only requirement is that you write an email to me and express your interest. I am looking into making them with the Zoom application and the audios will be free on my website mysticalprinciples.com I am taking a respite this week and hopefully will get started next Sunday, so let me know soon if you want to be included. Lots of things to contemplate moving forward. Thank you for your interest this past year and going all the way back to 2007. You make it worth the effort. Bill (Iamwithin@gmail.com)
I am very happy to inform you that Herb Fitch’s Living In the 4th Dimension books
are now available at Amazon. Please go to these links to view them.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1956998047/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=bookwhip+company&qid=1637344191&s=books&sr=1-10
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With Love,
Bill
We have started a new study with The Book of John in the Bible and Parenthesis by Joel.
There are no transcripts yet, but here are the first few Audios & Videos:
https://ftp.mysticalprinciples.com/Spiritual_Talk_/?dir=Book%20of%20John%20%26%20PIE
Love there,
Bill
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