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MARCH 2010
JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1956 HOLLAND CLOSED CLASS* “Three Daily Meditations/ The Word Made Flesh,” CD #804 12:30 P.M. JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2009 ASILOMAR RETREAT "Dropping Concepts of Good and Evil," Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0906) ************************************************ SUNDAY, MARCH 14 - at 227 E. BLODGETT RD., LAKE BLUFF, IL - 7:30 P.M. VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MARCH, 2010 LESSON/ THE 2003 NASHVILLE CLASS “Is Death Necessary?” Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0309) ************************************************ SUNDAY, MARCH 21 – NO MEETINGS. ************************************************ SUNDAY, MARCH 28 - at 259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE - 1:30 P.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1956 HOLLAND CLOSED CLASS* “Three Daily Meditations/ The Word Made Flesh,” CD #804 ************************************************ ON-LINE STUDY (At Your Convenience) LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1983 CLEVELAND CLOSED CLASS “One God, One Substance,” Tape 2, Side 1 ****************************************************************************************************************** STUDY CHAPTERS FOR MARCH AWAKENING MYSTICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, Chapter 3: “Spiritual Power Unveiled;” VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MONTHLY LESSONS OF 2010, March: “Is Death Necessary?” LIVING BY THE WORD, Chapter 3, “Let There Be Light;” TREASURE HUNT, An Adventure In Inner Space, by Luella Overeem: Treasure Hunt Number 6. ****************************************************************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS *JOELS 1956 HOLLAND CD’s are not available from the IW Catalog. These are rare recordings, and we are having them in Chicago for the first time. JOHN STEPHENSON CLASS: APRIL 8 - 12, 2010 - ASILOMAR RETREAT -PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA CONTACT: Liz Parker at eaparker@aol.com (916) 652-6562 BOB HARPER CLASS: October 15-17, 2010 – St. Columba Retreat Ctr. (Near Memphis, TN). Contact: Betsy Hamrick (901) 230-5503 ewhamr @aol.com NEW TAPE MEETINGS: Sat. 10:30 am, in Hyde Park area of Chicago. Contact Barbara Holt, 773-991-6887, holt-barbara@comcast.net
EXCERPTS FROM TAPES FOR STUDY, PRACTICE, AND MEDITATION SUNDAY, MARCH 7 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO- 11:00 A.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1956 HOLLAND CLOSED CLASS* “Three Daily Meditations/ The Word Made Flesh,” CD #804 It makes no difference whether you are called upon for money or whether someone calls upon you tonight for a healing. You dare not answer, “I’m a beggar,” You have to answer, “I and the Father are one, and all the Father Hath is mine”. I am an heir of God, and if God can give you this healing, I can be an instrument through which it flows. Do you see that? Watch that you never become a beggar. Do not allow anyone to make a beggar of you. Do not ever let anyone convince you that you haven’t got the allness of God. Oh, it may not be evident, this minute, in thousand pound notes; it may not be evident in the ability to heal a cancer. Pay no attention to that, begin with what you have. Remember the Widow, the Widow with the cruse of oil, in the Bible? He didn’t ask her to begin with a whole tank of oil. “What have you in the house?” And if she had answered, “Nothing, I’m a beggar”! she would still be with nothing. But she said, “I have some oil”. “Ah, that’s nice; that’s nice. At least you’re not a beggar. Pour what you have!” And it never stopped pouring. See that? A multitude of people want food. The master said to the Disciples, “What have you?” They didn’t say, “Nothing,” they said, “Some loaves and fishes”. “Good! Let’s take what you have, and begin with that, and multiply.” See, begin with what you have. “To him that hath, shall be given”. Never let anybody convince you that you haven’t got all that the Father hath. Even if at this minute you can only see a few drops of oil. Begin to pour. Begin to give a treatment, if you’re asked for help. Begin to give a dollar if you have a dollar. Begin to give compassion and forgiveness, if you have compassion and forgiveness. Begin with a little forgiveness, but give, but give. Browning tells us, “Open out a way that the imprisoned splendor can escape.” You have the whole splendor of God within you, but if you can only see a couple of drops of oil, or if you can only see a few loaves and fishes, or if you can only see a little treatment, begin with it, begin with it. If you can only remember one Bible passage, begin with that, and declare that one, until a second one comes to mind, and then declare the second. And keep on declaring until a third one. You’ll be surprised, before you get through, you’ll know a hundred of them! Maybe at this minute you couldn’t call out a hundred, but if you started with one, before the night was over, you’d be up to 100. You see that? It’s all stored within you. There is an infinite Storehouse within you. But you, you must open out a way. You cannot accept yourselves as beggars; you cannot do that, because nobody can lift a beggar up to Divine Sonship. Nobody can do that, but the beggar, himself, can wake up, as the beggar did at the “Temple Gate Beautiful”, when John and Peter said, “Silver and gold have we none.” Well, ordinarily, a beggar would get so disgusted with that, he would not listen to the rest. But this particular beggar did hear them out. And so, when they said, “Rise, pick up thy bed and walk,” the man did rise. If we are empty human beings, and we are trying to get, get, get, that’s the beggar … . We, too, think that we are empty, and all we want is to get, get, get. And so we are beggars, even in truth, if all we think of is, “read another book, and get another lesson, and read another book,” [and so on.] No, the day will come when we must take one passage out of that book and start to give it back to somebody, start to give it out. Start to pour two drops. Do you see that? Then you’ll find, that those two drops of oil, inspiration oil, huh? that those two drops of inspiration will never run dry. They’ll keep pouring, pouring, and pouring. For Meditation: “Know yourself to be the experience of the never-waning fullness and inexhaustible completeness which constitutes the divine nature.” – Doris Henty For Study: A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY, Chapter 32. SUNDAY, MARCH 7 – 12:30 P.M. JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2009 ASILOMAR RETREAT “Dropping Concepts of Good and Evil,” Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0906) “I’ve heard from so many people, “Oh everything is wonderful while I am in meditation.” And then we open our eyes and we go out in the world as it’s all the same. So how do we live from this spiritual standpoint? And the two primary activities that we do is that we let go of that orthodox concept of God. In almost every book of Joel’s, there is a chapter that you can find that would somehow be releasing orthodoxy or getting rid of the idea that there is a rewarding or punishing God. It is in our Western conditioning that we have this sense of duality, because that [duality] is what is apparent. How did this come about? That is a question that Joel always said is not worth answering. Because if we go into this state, we are going into the material realm and we are trying to somehow find the Spirit in this material realm. Or we are trying to find out, why did God let evil happen? I have a friend in Hawaii, who knows what we do and is, I would say, between curious and interested. He’s not really someone who would follow the Infinite Way. But he almost became a minister, so he has a lot of orthodoxy behind him. And he asked me if I believed in an omnipotent God, and I said, I did. He Said, “How can you believe in an Omnipotent God when there is all this evil and suffering in the world? How can God let all of this happen in this world”? I said ,well I don’t believe that God has a clue about the human dream. All this is happening in the human dream. Now if we want to examine the human dream, we are welcome to examine the human dream ‘til doomsday! But it’s not going to lift us into one iota of spiritual understanding.” For Study: A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY, Chapter 27. ************************************************************************************************************* SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 7:30 PM, at 227 E. Blodgett Rd., Lake Bluff, IL VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MARCH 2010 LESSON/ THE 2003 NASHVILLE CLASS The 2003 Nashville Class, “Is Death Necessary?” Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0309) So, we reject consciously the belief that God knows both good and evil. When we do that, we also reject the belief that God is a rewarding and punishing God, that God knows death, that death is a reality, that death is necessary. Death is not necessary. A transition is necessary, a resurrection is necessary, an ascension is necessary; and it may be that in the next 50 years, this spiritual consciousness will so evolve that death will be obsolete, and transition and ascension will be the way, because matter is a mind- formation. Why should we leave behind a material body when it is a concept, a projection of thought? There must be an awakening from the dream. Life has no beginning and it has no ending. Joel has written about this in a book called A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY. Life is always depicted as a circle without a beginning and without an ending. And that is the Life that really lifts us, that’s the Love that lifts us. It never began, and it will never end, and there will always be conscious awareness of life. There will never be unconsciousness, because there can’t be unconsciousness when consciousness is Omnipresence. So, this is the transition that we have to consider: is death necessary? It’s only necessary to die daily to our old concepts and beliefs of limitation, die to the belief that life and intelligence is in the material concept. Life and intelligence is in the I that I am. I am the life and the intelligence and the activity, the consciousness that animates the body. The body cannot move without Me. I move the body, I am the thinker. I am also the knower and I am the be’er. It’s all a matter of consciousness. So, we have to straighten out in our own awareness what kind of a God we are going to have. Are we going to accept a God that is “closer than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet”; that is omniscient; that knows our needs before we do; that created us, or sent us forth into expression, this eternal life that is the circle of eternity, into expression in a finite form but never in that form but living the drama between birth and death? We are going to awaken from that dream and live in the Circle of Eternity. We can. That’s what Jesus proved! That’s what He was showing us when He said, “My kingdom is not of this world”. For Meditation: “So, to free yourself is to let go of that birth date and to realize that you were born of the Great Forever. That’s what you were born of: the Great Forever.” - Virginia For Study: Virginia's Monthly Lesson For March, 2010; Subscriptions for Virginia’s Monthly Lessons: Leslie Lewis, 3731 Kanina Ave, #231, Honolulu, HI 96815. Tel: (808) 779-9817. Email: llewis002@hawaii.rr.com SIGNPOSTS [Mary Baker Eddy] is so definite on this point that I ask your permission to quote again. ‘God’s law is in three words, “I am All;”’ and this perfect law is ever present to rebuke any claim of another law.” “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.” – Revelation 20:11 “The mortal sense of earth, the mortal sense of heaven, the erroneous sense of everything always will flee away from the spotless consciousness of the Christ, the great white throne, the reality and royalty of all being.” “We can therefore rejoice that nothing of a discordant nature can in any guise enter your experience. Your serene and permanent immunity from all suggestion of a power apart from God is assured. This is our divine guarantee that good alone can happen. World conditions cannot make the slightest impression upon us any more than so-called medical laws can dominate our health.” - From ADDRESSES and OTHER WRITINGS on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, by Doris Dufour Henty ***************************************************************************************************************** SUNDAY, MARCH 28, at 259 Skyline Drive, Carpentersville, IL 60110 - 1:30 P.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH; The 1956 Holland Closed Class “Three Daily Meditations and The Word Made Flesh,” CD #804 There is a way to stop it [material sense/ human consciousness], and that is by destroying the state of consciousness that makes a person do what they don’t want to do. That is what was shown to me, and this is the work that has been ignored. I’m asking you, as I have asked these other students, for three meditation periods to be given to me everyday, 7 days a week. Alone if you’re alone, two or more together if you can be two or more together, a whole group if you can be a whole group. But each one to pledge themselves, not to me, but to God, to give these three periods every day. Now it makes no difference, there is 24 hours in everybody’s day. Nobody has less than 24 hours. So, there isn’t anybody that can say they don’t have time, because 24 hours, and each one with 60 minutes, isn’t a terribly long time, especially when each meditation period doesn’t have to be more than 5 or 10 minutes: three times, out of 24 hours, to give up to bring peace on earth. The worst that can happen is that you can fail. And even then, it would be no less to you, since you have given; but it won’t fail, because this was given to me to start in the world. Now, the first of these three meditation periods must be for only one purpose, it must have no other reason: “realization of the Christ”. That’s the first meditation period. You can have that one in the morning, perhaps. And the way it would be done would be to sit quietly for a few moments, and take some Bible passages. Oh, to think of one quickly, “In Thy presence is fullness of joy”. In Thy presence is fullness. “Alright, God, let me experience Thy presence”. You just sit quietly for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 minutes, and that’s your whole realization. “Thy presence is fullness. Let me experience Thy presence”. Or you might take another one. “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.” Alright, God, let me feel the spirit of the Lord. Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, freedom. Let me have the spirit of the Lord. Let me feel the spirit of the Lord. Let the Holy Ghost descend upon me. In just a few minutes, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, until you feel that your meditation is done. And that’s all, you’re finished. In your second meditation, you realize, also, the presence of the Christ, but with it you realize this: the presence of the Christ dissolves material sense. The presence of the Christ dissolves material sense throughout this universe. That is in your friends and in your foes. That is in your land and in my land, and their land, and his land, and her land. The presence of the Christ dissolves material sense throughout this globe, destroys mad ambition, destroys greed, lust, animality, fear, hate. The presence of the Christ destroys these in human consciousness. And so you just sit there again, 3, 4,5, 6, 7 minutes, until you feel that it’s complete, and you’re through with your second meditation. In your third meditation is the realization of the Christ opening human consciousness to this truth, to the spiritual truth, to God. The activity of the Christ the presence of the Christ, opens human consciousness to the receptivity of this truth. Three minutes…that’s all. You will shower down miracles. You know it is said that if there are “ten righteous men,” it means the city will be saved. But you will be the ten righteous men in the city. “Righteous” means, not humanly good: righteous means realizing Christ, realizing spiritual activity, realizing the presence of God. For Meditation: “Soul is the substance, nature, action, and law of all form and is never separate from the form.”- Joel For Study: SPIRITUAL SUPPLY, Chapter 1. SIGNPOSTS “Freedom is a state of mind – not freedom from something.” – Krishnamurti “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.” – Swami Vivekananda ******************************************************************************************************************** On-line Study (At Your Convenience) LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1983 CLEVELAND CLOSED CLASS “One Substance – One God,” Tape 2, Side 1 Question: “Will you speak on the principle of One Substance? In meditating regarding the appearances of irritating substances, such as so-called poisonous plants, tobacco, sugar, and so on. How does one work to increase the realization that God is the substance of all form?” Answer: “Well, you start out by reading about it, but you really can’t get the realization of it by reading about it. Humanly, you can get the sense of it ... . There is nothing that’s solid. However solid anything looks, there’s more empty space in it than there is matter. It seems that this is a good way to start, because things look solid; and if it is glass, then the atoms or molecules are farther apart, so the light can get through; or they keep out one thing or another. But they all look solid. Well, then you have to go back beyond the atoms and molecules. We can be aware of them, so they are concepts, mind concepts, in the mind. If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, smell it, it’s not God, meaning it’s not Spirit. That is, maybe you can’t see it with your eyes, but you can “see” it, or detect, it with some instrument, which still means, to human sense, that it is material. What is all that, then? Everything that is is made of Spirit. It is God, Spirit, incorporeal Universe, appearing as form. That is, our mind, that’s all it can see of God, because what’s here is God. Here, there, and everywhere is actually God, Spirit. With the limited human sense, we see it as form, as material, as substance. We also see it as activity, we see it as everything that we are aware of. But it's not what it appears to be, because all that we’re seeing it with is our limited human sense. And that goes for structure, the body. You don’t have any material, physical body: that’s an appearance. The body is spiritual, and so, all these foods, plants, everything that was made was God-made. … Every thing that God made is therefore spiritual, and so, there is no structural plant, animal, form. It’s not structural in its essence. We’re seeing the structure: we’re calling it structural. The structure is just a concept, a picture that we have formed of what is actually here, which is God. For Meditation: “We have called good and evil opposites, but take that into meditation. Don’t just believe what anybody says, but take the idea of it, and YOU ponder it. See what comes to you, because it’s going to be different, it’s going to come in a different way. [Buckminster] Fuller says that: ‘Science, now, does not believe any more that good and evil, or good and bad, are opposites, but that they are complimentarity, that is that what we called “good” and called “bad” are two functions of nature, which contribute to the eternal regenerative power of the universe. The word “negative,” used as an opposite of the word “positive,” is at best carelessly and misinformedly employed.’ That is, we have not really understood what we were calling good and bad. … It’s names that man has given to phenomena that he really did not understand. … It’s been a matter of opinion, and it’s been something that we haven’t understood. God created everything there is, and so, somehow, we’re mis-seeing it; and if we can see it aright, it won’t appear to be evil anymore. If we can see what it really here, we are going to see all Good, because everything that has been created is good for the universe. The only thing “bad” about it is that we have not understood it, we have misunderstood it. We’ve called things bad, therefore, they were bad for us.” - Luella For Study: TREASURE HUNT #6 |
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