REALIZATION OF ONENESS

by Herb Fitch

Class 1: Only the Presence is present

Our function in this class is to delve into the higher mysteries. You may find that less and
less we’re not going to discuss any personal problems. We’re not going to be concerned about the
world not created by God. And that may be very difficult for some but it has to come. There has to
be a time when we’re no longer saying “God, heal me of this and heal me of that!” There has to
come a time when we’re no longer saying “God, you’ve withheld this from me, and you’ve
withheld that from me.” There has to come a time of acceptance, not of seeking but of acceptance.
And this concerns the higher mysteries, the ‘above’ universe, the universe right where the visible
universe seems to appear.

Today, it will be well if you can learn what makes an image. For you have one image called
‘the world’ and in it are many images, all part of the same image. And so we want to burst that
bubble today so that some of you who have been living in the mind-universe, trying through the
power of your mind to find some kind of peace, some kind of tranquility, some kind of solution,
will discover that you’ve been living in the wrong universe and in the wrong body and in the wrong
century; seeking in some way to improve God’s perfect universe because you’re unaware of it.

We see Jesus on his feet hands and knees and he’s washing the feet of Peter. Yes, the Master
seems to be washing the feet of a student. And this is drawing the curtain to the inner mystery of
Christ within Peter. This is drawing the mystery into visibility, by telling you and telling me that if
you wish to walk in the universe of God instead of the kingdom that is this world, not of the Father
but of the sense mind, you too will have to wash your feet. Not only yours, but the feet of the world.

You’ll have to see that the Master is revealing the secret of his great work is not his personal
ability, but his capacity to say “The only me here is the inner Christ, there is no human me. I wash
the feet. That which walks upon this earth I am dissolving in my consciousness. I am recognizing
the inner Christ of Peter and in so doing, the inner Christ of every man, woman and child on this
earth. And I, who seem to be the Master, am but the servant of this inner Christ. And therefore when
thou seest me thou seest the activity of the inner Christ, not of a man. And the inner Christ that I
glorify as I walk this earth, is the inner Christ of Peter, the inner Christ of Bill, the inner Christ of
Mary, the inner Christ of everyone who walks this earth.”

And therefore it behooves Bill, it behooves Mary, it behooves Betty, it behooves Herb, it
behooves every individual on the face of the earth to get on his hands and knees, which is the
surrender of humanhood until in that yielding of self, the invisible Self is brought into activity in the
visible experience world.

Of mine own self I can do nothing. And as long as I continue in the effort, I will fall into the
image world. And while I am under the belief that I am loving God supremely, I am actually
accusing God, condemning God, condemning God for the evil He leaves on the earth, accusing Him
even of creating it.

Now, you know that condemnation has by now become very small in your consciousness.
You can see the thief without accusing him. You can see the corruption in government without
accusing. You can see many facets of the imperfect human life without condemnation, and probably
you pride yourself upon it. What we don’t realize too often is that we are condemning God. We

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have risen to that level where we do not condemn our neighbor, but instead we condemn God.

How? Take the crusader. I don’t mean back in the medieval times. I mean today’s crusader –
for good, for improvements. How do we improve anything except by recognizing that which needs
improvement? And therefore what have we said? We have said there are two creations – God’s
creation, which we will accept as perfect, but there is also a creation that needs improvement. And
so we are going to crusade for the improvements. And we’re stuck with two creations. We’ve fallen
into the trap of believing that God is aware of these things that need improvement in this earth and
is doing nothing about it, so we’re going to do it. Of course, we are in a human consciousness.
We’ve fallen into the trap of human images.

Most of you have never heard what I’d like to tell you. It’s about this world of images and
what makes it so.

There’s a process in photo engraving where you make a photograph of any object or person,
and then in order to reproduce that, let’s say in a newspaper, you make a photograph of the
photograph. And when you make a photograph of the photograph you put a filter or a screen
between the object or photograph you’re going to photograph and your camera. And so now you get
a new photograph of a photograph. This one is filtered or screened so that the photograph is broken
down into all kinds of little dots. And then you photograph this onto metal and you put an emulsion
on the metal and then you put acid on the emulsion and finally you get these dots so they’re raised
up. And that’s all that’s raised up; the photograph of the original photograph broken into dots,
raised up and then you put ink on the surface of these raised up dots and you turn the metal over and
you print on a newspaper. You print those dots.

And every time you pick up a newspaper and look at a face, you’re not aware of it, you think
that’s Richard Nixon, that’s Chou En Lai, that’s John Mitchell, that’s John Lindsay. And every time
you look at these photographs in the paper you’re looking at nothing but little blobs of ink that are
separated; they’re really little dots. And in about a one inch there are maybe about thirty-six
hundred to four thousand little dots; that’s really what you’re looking at. Your eye doesn’t know it;
your mind doesn’t know it. You’re looking at dots but you think its John Lindsay, Richard Nixon.
And really there is just as many dots to make a Richard Nixon as there is a John Lindsay.

You can take the same dots and re-arrange them and make a hippopotamus. You can make
an elephant. If you re-arrange the dots you can make anything that is on this earth. You can make a
battleship, a spacecraft. In other words, your eye doesn’t see the dots. But if you take just a normal
magnifying glass and look at any photograph in the newspaper, that’s what you’re going to see.
Hold it there just until, raise it up or down until you see “Why it’s only made of dots and I thought it
was a man’s face!” The face is the image formed by the dots but all that is on that paper are little
black dots and they’re all identical. Put a few more on one side and you get a cluster of them. A few
less on another side and you get what seems to be a lighter tone. But they’re all the same black dots.

When I do this privately and give a magnifying glass to somebody and they look and see the
dots, they’re so much surprised that they hadn’t noticed them with their naked eye. And that’s how
we all are able for fifty years to read a newspaper and never know that we have never really seen a
photograph, we’ve have seen dots that appear to our human eye as faces and things.

And then you can take this and go right to your television screen and you’ll see its the same
process. On the television screen you’re looking at electric dots, dots of electricity. But you cannot
see the dots. And as the electric moves you see the movement of the dots but you don’t know it’s
the movements of electrical dots. So you say the horse is running. It isn’t running, there’s no horse
there. You’re looking at electrical dots to simulate a horse running. No horse is going to run out of
that screen, its an image on the screen. And the method is electrical dots, so fine that no human eye

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can see them. And so you get the forms.

Now you go to the motion picture house. There’s a giant screen and the same thing happens,
dots. They are still electrical dots. And you can have Cleopatra and her barge draw up. You can
have the complete spectacle of Rome. And it’s all made with electrical dots. Electrical dots that to
the human eye appear as images called people doing things.

Now these processes are human inventions. The Father does it much more subtly. When you
come to the human scene you find that the same process is going on around you. But now the dots
are points of light, so fine that they have fooled the greatest religious and intellectual and scientific
teachers of the world - points of light. And you watch these points of light move and you call them
living forms. They are the very same process in a more sophisticated way for He hangeth the earth
on nothing.

Now, what you are looking and calling forms then are points of light moving. You’re seeing
the tree grow up but you’re not. You’re seeing the slow motion of points of light below the level of
your perception. You see the horse run on the track but you’re not. You see boys go out to war on
battlefields but you are looking at points of light and when that cannon roars and a boy falls down
and the blood pours, you’re looking at points of light. You know you’re not looking at God’s
creation and there are not two creations. What are you looking at? You’re looking at points of light
in the cosmic mind.

Wherever you look on this earth that is all you will ever see – points of light. You cannot
find one thing on this earth made by God, not one. Now that is important. And however
revolutionary it may seem to the human mind it was a necessary step in the revelation of the allness
of God, in the eternal life that comes into the experience of all who know God aright.

Now, what you’ve been looking at and calling forms, people, things, places, conditions are
points of light in a cosmic telecast. And it has its purpose. And that purpose was explained to you in
the Bible, but we walked by.

In these points of light you see the dying soldier, you see the accident on the freeway. You
see the long inventory of disease and disaster not created by God. You’re looking at the image
world of the mind, And often accusing the Father of putting it there. “Why did you do this to my
daughter? Why did you do this to my son? Why don’t you change this and change that?” But the
Father doesn’t change this and change that, for the simple reason that the Father does not see what
you are seeing. The Father does not look at points of light in motion, seeming to us as real
conditions of a real world. The Father is not dreaming; the Father is awake. The dream of mortality
is where we see these points of light.

Fortunately we have them; they have a grand purpose. You have thought that everything
wrong in your life couldn’t possibly be attributed to you. As a matter of fact we discover that most
of us are pretty good human beings. And then we say, “Well, if I’ve been so good why have I been
completely isolated from happiness, health, abundance, the things and joyful relationships that a
child of God ought to have? Why am I besieged by this endless parade of things that I have to keep
solving? When does the day of solving stop? When can I relax and say ‘At last, I’ve made it’?” And
then suddenly there comes another problem out of nowhere. And it has a name.

And yet in spite of all - you’ve been reading your Bible, you’ve been listening to tapes.
You’ve been as faithful as you know how and as dedicated. Some put in as many as twenty hours a
day and still have things turn up that you would think after all this time and effort and dedication,
would be impossible.

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 And that’s why we go back to the story of the wheat and the tares. Nobody plants weeds;
you’ve never planted any weeds. You certainly wouldn’t do it intentionally. And neither did this
man in the Bible, he planted wheat. But it wasn’t long in season where there was wheat and tares,
wheat and weeds. Couldn’t figure it out, he hadn’t planted any tares. So he went to his friends and
they told him “Well what really happened of course, is that your neighbor down the way who you
had that argument with last month, he got even with you. While you were asleep he planted the
tares.”

And so asleep this man got weeds in his farm. And asleep we get problems in our
consciousness. The tares, planted while the farmer was asleep, are the beliefs planted in you below
the level of your conscious awareness, meaning in your sleep. You do not know what the world
mind is broadcasting into you. You haven’t the vaguest notion, how could you? You have a certain
level of consciousness. If something comes in, in your unconscious how can you be conscious of it?
And so seeds are planted, seeds of belief. And the only time you become aware of them is when
they grow up into form. And you can then look out and say, “Why did I get arthritis? Why did my
business fail? Why did my marriage prove such a disaster? Why this? Why that? Why the other?”

You’re only seeing these things on your screen of consciousness now, as images – broken
homes, broken marriages, broken bodies. But they began in the unconscious level where the world-
mind planted in you a seed. And each seed planted in you must become a visible experience. That
visible experience you then give the label and say, “This is what I’ve got.” But you haven’t got that
at all. What has happened is that from the invisible of your consciousness a seed you did not know
was there has grown into a tree, and it is now dropping fruit. And that is in your visible world.

The image world is where you have seen the fruit of the tree of good and evil. And that fruit
is very untasty at times. And it grows because the seeds of belief in your consciousness are there,
unknown to you. You did not know they were coming in. You did not know that they were growing
up. You did not know about them until you began to suffer.

The cause did not begin in you; the cause began in the world-mind. And so a very
intelligent, infinite mind has provided you with a screen, a television screen called ‘the world.’ And
from the invisible of your consciousness you automatically project the quality of your
consciousness. You project into the world of images, the fabric of your own consciousness. And
when you label it this or that, you’re really saying, “This is the nature of my invisible
consciousness.” Because be sure of this, it isn’t someone else’s consciousness appearing on your
screen. The problems you manifest are nothing more than your consciousness turned inside out like
a reversible raincoat, from the invisible to the visible.

That’s what this world is all about – a place where you can project your consciousness. And
then looking at the world of images you can go back to your consciousness, which is the land in
which the wheat and the tares are growing side by side - in duality.

And finally you come to the realization that there is no thing in this world, which does not
begin first in an invisible world. There’s no child in this world that doesn’t first begin in the
invisible, no tree, no seed, no fruit, no flower, no animal. No animal, vegetable, mineral or human
begins in the visible, they begin in the invisible. And everything in this visible has a beginning in
the invisible. That’s what we all have in common. And therefore if we were to live only in the
visible we would continue in the world of effect, never going into the cause of things, which is the
invisible.

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And what is the cause of this imaged world that you live in? Your world is your consciousness. My
world is my consciousness. And whoever is in this world is really in their own consciousness made
visible. And so this is where the effects are – in the world. That’s the television screen where we
can pick up what’s right or wrong in our life.

And now we go back, go back into the invisible, into our consciousness, because there we’re
going to find what’s happening to make our visible world of good and evil. It is there where we are
going to determine a way of dominion over the outer world of experience. Now, we look at our
consciousness and we see that it’s subject to two forces. We’re no longer dealing in the world of
problems, because if you meet a problem in the effect world of problems, you are never going to get
to the cause of it, which is in your consciousness.

So you’re in the invisible of your consciousness. And you discover that your consciousness
has been fed by the wrong life stream, by the world-mind. And that has brought forth the first birth
-you, the image you. Your consciousness has brought forth the image you have called ‘yourself’.
And your consciousness, which brought forth this image, has not been able to see reality directly,
because between your consciousness and reality, between your consciousness and the divine there is
the world-mind, the glass darkly.

And you’re looking at the divine through the glass darkly of the world-mind. And just like
that photo engraving process I told you about, you’re trying to make a photograph of the divine with
your human consciousness. And there’s a filter or screen between your human consciousness and
the divine. And so you break the divine down into little dots, little dots of light. And then your
consciousness projects these dots of light into the world as the image called ‘you’.

These little dots of light, you know by now are the atoms identified by science, little dots of
light. Little whorls of electrical energy so placed together that they look exactly like you. And you
call those little whorls of atoms ‘you’, not knowing that is the image cast forth onto the screen of
time and space by your consciousness. And that it is your consciousness where you must live and
you must learn to tune out that world-mind, which is between you and the divine to let - not the
dots, not the filtered light come through - but the direct divine light of the Father.

And there’s a way to do it. And the way is the only way that is prescribed by those who have
done it. You’ll find that when your mind, your consciousness, has developed the capacity to be a
vacuum; that it no longer receives the filtered light of the world-mind. It is closed to the filtered
light of the world-mind and it becomes a clear plate of glass, crystal-clear glass. And just as Jesus
walked through a wall that was only there to the human consciousness, the divine walks through the
world-mind and through the clear crystal glass of your consciousness, bypassing the activity of that
world-mind, which breaks things up into little atoms; coming through the crystal-clear glass of your
consciousness, which has been purified of thought. And that divine light is no longer separated
atoms, no longer separated dots of light - but is the fullness of the Father, the wholeness of the
Father - not little points of separation. And all that was missing out here in the image form in the
world of this human experience, was nothing more than gaps of light which the divine now, brings
through.

You’ve become a living embryo in the womb of the Father. That new spiritual womb of
silence is really no different than the womb you inhabited as an embryo before you became an
imaged human self. We really duplicate that condition. No mother has consciously fed the child in
her womb. No embryo in the womb has consciously said to the mother “Feed me!” It’s an automatic
process; it happens.

And when you have found the crystal-clear consciousness of silence, the vacuum of no-
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brain, when you have been able to accept truth, divine truth, and have reached that place where the
mind is at peace, then you are like the embryo. You are no longer saying to the Father “Give me!
This is what I want! This is what I need! This is my will, that you fulfill my will here!” But rather
you are resting in the womb of infinity with trust. Wanting nothing, needing nothing, seeking
nothing, just like a child in the mother’s womb.

That spiritual embryo is the method in which you defeat the world-mind. As long as you
have a thought, an idea, a plan, a scheme, a will, a belief or an acceptance of anything in this world
that you consider real, you’re not ready for that womb. You still have house cleaning to do.

To be an embryo in the womb of the Father you must be the pure at heart, willing to seek
nothing of good and nothing of evil in the dream of mortality for the Father is source, and the
source is pure. And that pure being, which is the Father, is the essence of your being. And you must
be fed by the essence of your being, not something else. You rest in the conscious awareness that
the pure being called the Father, is here as my life.

And I, even past the point then of saying “Speak Father, Thy son heareth!” but rather there is
no ‘you’ to say that. You go past that point and you see the real meaning of what Samuel said. He
had so purified himself that there was no Samuel there. And then the Christ within Samuel said to
the Father “Speak Father, Thy son heareth!” When you hear the words within you, it is Christ
saying this to the Father who is greater than I. These words are the sign that you have stripped
yourself of the dream. Not that you have said them humanly. But that they have been said within
you by the Christ to the Father.

And now the revelation of oneness takes place. In your silence of humanhood there is no
place for world-mind to go. You are not a receiver for the world-mind. It can plant no tares in your
consciousness. It can plant no seeds in you that will become tomorrow’s problems. You are still.
And now the essence of being, not broken into little dots of light, flows through your stillness. And
the Father feeds the son, as the mother feeds the child in her womb. This is soul feeding.

I am the bread. And the real substance that feeds you as a spiritual embryo is the essence of
God, the substance of God, the will of God, the power of God, the love of God – all become your
hidden manna, your meat the world knows not of. You are fed by the divine. There’s nothing more
to do. The feeding takes place. And now, this is what you image forth into the world - as a better
body, a better mind, a better life, a better demonstration. You are glorifying the Father.

You are not saying to your mother “Feed me this way or that way, here’s what I prefer!”
You’re saying to the Father “Let me have Your food. I’m silent to the food of the world.” And the
food of the Father is His own being. “All that I have!” The very life of the Father flows through
you. And so essence flows through your purified consciousness and becomes imaged form. The
outer form then is manifesting the qualities of the new substance. And the new substance is pure
wheat. It isn’t divided. It isn’t good and evil.

Now, the purification, which enables Christ in you to say to the Father “Speak Father, Thy
son heareth” is the working in the invisible, in your consciousness to consciously turn it away from
the duality of the world-mind. In other words you tune in by tuning out of the world-mind. You tune
out of the world-mind to tune in for your divine feeding.

The you of you is forgotten in the image world. That’s going to be the result of how well
you’re fed in the inner. And if you’ve learned your lessons properly, you don’t let that outer image
self tempt you to fulfill its ambitions, its will, its needs. You are out of the imaged world. You are
working on the level of consciousness.

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 Now, this is the meaning of washing the feet. I who stand before you, washing your feet
Peter; I am showing you that within you is a consciousness, which is pure. And it is the actual life
of God. And I am serving that life of God in you and in myself and in everyone I meet, letting that
life live itself through my conscious awareness of its presence; keeping my consciousness on that
life - not on duality, not on a denial of the presence of that life, but rather on the presence of that
life.

Now, some of you have been involved in worldwide movements to do good in this world
and have thought that you are really doing good. But you haven’t known that you are working in the
creation that is not the creation of God. What can you find in a divine creation that needs
improvement? You’ve been working in a world of images. You’ve been working in the world that is
not your Father’s kingdom. And even when you succeed in it, all you can do is change an image in
the world that is not your Father’s kingdom to a better image. And it is still not your Father’s
kingdom when it is a better image.

Whereas the way of the Father is “Is there a place now where I am not? Why not purify your
consciousness of the belief that there is a place somewhere where I am not? Instead of trying to
correct the world of images.”

The world of images isn’t to teach you that it needs correction. It’s to teach you how to
purify your consciousness of the belief that you’re not in the kingdom of God. As long as in the
world of images you see something wrong, you are not accepting in your inner consciousness that
this is the kingdom of God.

That’s the purpose of the world of images. As long as you can see imperfection out there
you must face it with the knowledge that it wasn’t created by God. And if you still think it’s real,
you have invented a second creator. Who could put the imperfection there if there’s no other
creator? Who could take God’s perfect creation and make it imperfect? And so as long as you’re
still improving things you’ve missed the point.

The things that you want to improve don’t need improvement. The consciousness that put
them out there needs improvement. And that doesn’t mean somebody else’s consciousness that
means yours. Because the things you see out there are your consciousness made visible. Whoever
else sees them that is their consciousness made visible. Our function is to purify our consciousness
so that we become aware of God’s kingdom here on earth.

And to clarify the picture then: you have a perfect divine creation here and now and there is
no other. You have a perfect divine being, an infinite being, not divided into little finite beings. And
that infinite being is the life that we call God, and that is the only life there is. While you are
dwelling in the inner consciousness to tune out the world-mind, you must tune out the belief that
there’s another life here beside the life of God. Where would it be if God is infinite? If this house
that we’re sitting in now were infinite, could you ever be in another one? If God is infinite can you
ever be outside of infinity?

If you’re always in infinity and God is life you’re in infinite life. Where does it divide?
Where does this infinite divine life become anything other than what it is? And so we come out into
the imaged world and we see four billion forms instead of knowing the one life.

We are talking now in words and you are hearing these words. And it is your belief that you
are hearing them from somebody sitting up on a podium in front of you. I’d like you to realize that
isn’t what’s happening. You’re hearing them inside your own self right now, just as I am hearing
them inside myself right now. That’s where you’re hearing them. We’re both hearing at the same
fountain, although it appears that someone outside of yourself is talking to you.

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 Every experience in your life is an experience within yourself that appears to be an external
one. You cannot have an external experience. There is no such experience. Every such experience is
a false belief. Whatever you see, you see in yourself and think you’re seeing it out there. Whatever
you taste, you taste within yourself and think you’re tasting it out there. Your complete experience
is within. It appears without, because it’s simultaneous. You can’t catch it. But that’s how it’s
happening. Usually mortal mind in you is talking to or hearing mortal mind in someone else. Or
divine mind in you is hearing divine mind in someone else or a mixture, a shadow of divine mind.
Always your experience is within, and you’re thinking it’s without.

And so I want you to do this: Take an individual in the outer world, and see if you can catch
this idea that that individual that you think is out there, is within yourself; within yourself just like a
little TV screen within yourself. And see that individual within you on a little TV screen. And now
let that person talk. And what’s happening? They’re talking within you on a little TV screen. No
matter what they say or do, that’s within you on a little TV screen. And if you saw this same person
on TV and they complained to you about a problem, you would look at the TV and say “Why that’s
just an image on a TV screen.” That’s precisely what this world of images is. Every image is on the
inner TV screen of your brain, which you think is out there.

Now those of you who can dwell with this awhile will begin to get the idea that your
dominion and your purification of consciousness, is to see that every evil in the world is nothing
more than a little TV screen inside your consciousness that is broadcasting a lie, an untruth. And
made you believe it was external when it couldn’t possibly be, in the creation of God.

When you reduce the images of the world into this little TV screen, you will find the whole
world is on this little TV screen. And you will find if you don’t let it get off the TV screen, but can
keep your consciousness knowing it’s only on an inner TV screen it can’t be real out there, because
God didn’t make it.

If you can never let it get off that TV screen you’ll find you’re beginning to feel the message
of dominion. And I don’t care what you have out there in the world, if you won’t let it get off this
little TV screen inside, you’ll have caught part of what the Master was teaching all the time. To the
man on the cross standing beside him, about to be crucified like himself “I will take thee today into
Paradise.” To the bond servant of the centurion “Go thy way, he liveth.” Why? All that was in the
inner little TV screen, the lie about the Father.

The allness of God is the rule, the law, the fact. Where is there a thief then on a cross? In
this little TV screen of the mind. Catch it at that level. Don’t fight it out there it isn’t necessary.
Don’t fight Pilate out there it isn’t necessary. Catch it inside. Because it’s coming through there, at
the same time as you see it outside.

Everything has to come through your consciousness before it can appear out there to your
consciousness. And you catch it at the level of it happening in consciousness, you’ll see the
nothingness of it. All evil in the world is in the human consciousness, that’s the only place it is. It
isn’t in the world; it’s in the human consciousness. There is no world. There is only the kingdom of
God.

Now, what we’re at today at this moment is something that comes only from years of
dwelling with it, until suddenly it announces itself to you. And you possibly may have sensed
something along these lines at one time or another. But you’ll discover your dominion is to be able
to look at this world and everything in it, and bring it right back to this little television screen inside
your consciousness. Maybe one inch big if you want to visualize it, just a little one-inch screen. And
whatever it’s complaining about, its nothing but a little TV broadcast coming from the world-mind.

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That’s the place to say “Sorry, the Father didn’t bring you into this world. Is this of God or is this
the world-mind?” It’s not of God you know, if it’s evil. Where is it? Who created it? No One. It’s
just a television broadcast and if you leave it on, it’s going to project itself. It’s going to demand
attention.

Now, in the purification of your consciousness then, you’re saying to these broadcasts from
within, which have appeared to you as images in the world without “Get thee behind me!” God is a
pure being. God is the essence. Is there another essence? Is there another source? Can anything
formed of that essence be less than the same essence? How can you dilute the essence of God? You
can’t. How can you change it? You can’t. How can you pollute it? You can’t. How can you poison
it? You can’t. How can you kill it? You can’t. How can you give it a disease? You can’t. Then what
are you giving these things to? To nothing, to nothing whatsoever. The essence of God is
omnipresent. You simply have been fooled by a world broadcast within yourself, which makes you
think it’s out there.

And don’t think for a minute that I’m trying to build a picture as a sort of a comparison or an
allegory or a symbolism. I mean it factually. What isn’t created by God cannot be out there. And by
reducing it to a little broadcast within yourself, you’ll find you can throttle it at the level of
conscious acceptance or conscious rejection. You can throttle it. And turn your mind, your
consciousness to the presence of God. And watch how that little fellow inside begins broadcasting
the truth.

Every world image regardless of its name is an inner telecast that you are receiving, which
seems to be out there. We’re all wired to the same world-mind and we all receive it, almost
simultaneously. It’s no different than six billion TV sets. In your home you get it. In someone else’s
home they get the same thing. Here you’re getting it right inside yourself at the same time as they’re
getting it inside themselves. And that’s what makes everyone see it, more or less the same.

Don’t meet it out there. Any more than you would go to a television set in your home and
smash it because you didn’t like the face of somebody on it. You wouldn’t heal anything on a TV
set screen. Get it right here at the level of TV and see the nothingness of it. That’s all it is.

The Bible calls it “the arm of flesh.” Christian Science calls it “mortal mind.” Others will
call it “universal mind.” Others will call it “Maya.” Some will call it “hypnotism, mesmerism.” But
the nature of it is that it mesmerizes you by appearing to be out there, when it isn’t. And why does it
come through you? Because you have also accepted the image of you as a reality, instead of
knowing that you are a living soul.

Now, in our rebirth out of this image, we’re not going to throw the image away, its very
useful. But we are going to live in the consciousness of the presence of God, so that in our soul
feeding we are one with the One; that the one essence can flow into form instead of the duality of
the world-mind; so that we are not divided from the essence, so that the substance forms us.

The Father who is greater than I, is the essence. And I am the form of that essence. And the
form of that essence that I am is the infinite Christ. The substance of the Father flows as the infinite
Christ. And you find your spiritual form, which is not little pieces of light held together by
magnetism; which is independent of the images of the world, independent of the flood and the fire,
independent of world conditions. Why, because world conditions only occur in the image world,
where the image form appears. And we must learn to walk through these images, right through
these images, by that consciousness, which opens itself to the pure essence and lets the essence do
the work. Now, how we’re going to do that, how we’re going to open our consciousness to the
essence of being, to overcome the false dominion of the world and its two powers, is going to
constitute all of our work.

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 The real freedom will only come as we learn to look at the world of images knowing what it
is, so that we fear it not, so that its false powers mean nothing to us so that we can consciously walk
in Oneness, in the acceptance that God is pure. And that purity, which is infinite, is the purity of my
own being. That purity overflows and overflows and overflows throughout its kingdom as my self,
my being. And I can live in my pure being independent of the image world, which has been
necessary to lift me and my consciousness above the level of duality.

Those images, those wheats, those tares have been very important to me. They have helped
me locate the unconscious beliefs I have entertained. I have seen those beliefs as images. Now I see
them not as images, but as invisible beliefs. And now I can watch them and reject them. And turn
my consciousness to the Father and rest in Oneness. Now, after three, four or five of these sessions,
including the second half of this, we are going to be developing our conscious awareness of the
presence of God. We have been given all of the weapons we need to do this. Nothing has been
withheld. Let’s have a little rest, quiet and then we’ll have a short intermission.

—-  End of Side One  —-

Now generally we take quotations right out of the book here, you know, and we discuss
them. But before we go into that this week, I’d like to do something else. I’d like to suggest
something you may not be doing.

Now, you’ll notice that at the bottom of every page, wherever there’s a biblical quotation,
the editor has taken the time to tell you where this quotation comes from. If its 2 Chronicles 3 why
they don’t just give you the quotation, they tell you where from. And all the way through, you have
these quotations in the text. And although on the original letters some of the quotations were not
annotated at the bottom, in the book they are. And so lets not let that go unnoticed.

In fact, to call it to your attention what I’ve done then is I’ve taken a little sheet and I’ve just
jotted down all the quotations from the Bible in this chapter, and where they’re from. And the
reason we’re going to discuss them today instead of quotations other than biblical ones, is I’d like
you to develop this habit of reading.

Our basic purpose is to overcome the false mortal sense of matter. And as you try to do that
with your thinking mind, you’re going to find failure is inevitable. These little words from the Bible
are the way you do it. You grip hold of them just as hard as you can and you study them. And you
find that the words of Christ are the only way that you can overcome the belief in matter.

In other words, your consciousness is at a crossroad. Here’s the world-mind life stream
entering and here’s the divine life stream entering. And you’ve got the wheat and the tares. And to
keep out the world-mind you must have truth in consciousness. So that every lie of the world-mind
that hits your consciousness hits a truth, which nullifies that lie, rejects it, turns it away and sends it
back. So that it has absolutely no power in your consciousness to stay there or to persuade you or
tempt you that you’re in an imperfect universe.

Truth in consciousness - now what truth should you put in your consciousness? Do you
know a better truth than the words of God expressed through the Christ? What good are my words?
What good is the opinion of any human being? If I go not away how can the Comforter come unto
you? The Comforter is Christ in you. The words of Christ in you are the truth in consciousness. And
until you can hear Christ in you, you must take Christ in the Bible - because that was Christ in
Jesus, that was Christ in prophets, that was Christ in Moses, and Christ in Joel Goldsmith.

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 But basically Christ in you is your goal. And to lead you to Christ in you are the words of
Christ out here in the Bible. You see those words were put there for that purpose – to lead you to
Christ in you. And how can you then ignore those words? Or even read them quickly and say “Oh
yes, that’s true.” That’s not it at all. These aren’t words to remember. These are words to be fed into
your soul, not to remember with your mind.

These words, fed into your soul, become a living Bible. And the world-mind approaching
you is unable to penetrate to defile or maketh a lie. The seeds of evil, of falsity, of disease and
disaster that are presented to your subconscious mind, at the unconscious level of your mind are
placed there by the world-mind. But there is no consciousness in you to receive them and you do it
all without effort. You do nothing. You do not concern yourself with world-mind; you concern
yourself with truth in consciousness.

Now, a very interesting thing happened. An individual said to me, a very fine student, one
who has caught the meaning of the Word. “Do you believe?” he said, “That this is possible? I have
come to a realization that only the presence of God is here. Is that possible?”

Now, that’s a mighty important revelation – only the presence of God is here. But the
question was “Is that right?” And I had to answer this way. “It was right when Jesus discovered it.
Didn’t you believe him? Did you have to prove it to yourself? Did you have to waste fifty years to
prove it, when it’s the Word of God given on this earth? What are we waiting for? Are we going to
spend more life times proving that his words are the truth? Of course it’s the truth!”

But it was the truth two thousand years ago when he said it. And it was the truth thirty five
hundred years ago when Moses said it. And when Isaiah said it “Is there another God beside Me? I
know not any.” I AM THAT I AM, there is no other. I and the Father are one, because there is no
other. Isn’t that the revelation of the allness of the presence - that the only presence here is the
presence? Only the presence is present.

Why should that come as a great surprise to us when it’s been in scripture all this time? And
think of the time we could save and the effort, and the suffering and the tribulation, if we would
simply say, “The Christ said it. I don’t want to prove it; I want to live by it. I’m not going to run
around with the mind to try to spend fifty years to find out if its true or not. I could spend that fifty
years living it out.”

That’s why these quotations from the Bible are so vital. You don’t have to prove them. Are
you going to prove that God told the truth? They’re given to you so that you can trust them now.
Before you can hear them within yourself they’re given to you out here in the Bible for you to hear
them there. And say “Amen. So be it.”

Now, that word of the Father spoken through Christ in the Bible becomes your shepherd.
You follow it. You believe it. You act with total faith in it. And it’s going to lead you to the
Comforter within yourself. There’s no other way to find the Comforter within. First you accept the
Comforter without. Listen and you’ll see what I mean.

Take this one from Deuteronomy. And these are all out of the first chapter called “Pure
Being” Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all thy might. Now
we’ve heard that five million times. But we don’t understand the meaning of loving the Lord. And
you can tell by the things we do and say that we don’t love the Lord. To love the Lord our God
means to accept a perfect God. A perfect God doesn’t make anything imperfect.

When you accept imperfection you’re not loving the Lord thy God. You’re doing the very
opposite. You’re saying “The Lord my God did not create a perfect this or a perfect that.” And

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that’s what the meaning of love was intended to counteract – this human tendency. With all thy
heart, mind and soul is the total acceptance that only God is. There’s nothing but divinity. There’s
nothing but divine substance. There’s nothing but divine life. That’s how you love the Lord thy
God.

Humanly you might love somebody but say “I love him but he’s kind of a dunce when you
get down to it.” But you couldn’t do that about God. To love the Lord Thy God is to accept the
infinite perfection of God, to accept the total nature of God. You cannot love the Lord thy God and
deny the perfect nature of God in any way. And so the minute you’ve found an evil on the earth you
are denying the nature of God.

The nature of God is to be all knowing. When you’ve found an evil you are saying, “God
doesn’t know about this evil.” Or even worse you’re saying, “Here’s the evil and God does know
about it, but God’s not doing something about it, so I will do it. We will form a movement to do this
thing that God isn’t doing. Because that’s what God wants us to do.”

Now, you know that’s wrong. If God wanted it done, why would God ask you to do it? Why
wouldn’t it have been done? And it has been done. It has been done perfectly and your acceptance
of an evil that you are going to counteract is your un-knowledge or lack of knowledge, your
ignorance of the nature of God. There is no evil for you to counteract. Your belief that its there, is
the way you are not loving the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind and soul. You’re denying the
presence of God where you have found the evil. You’re denying the omnipotence of God where you
have found evil.

You can’t say, “I believe in God’s nature as being omnipotent but God isn’t doing
something about this condition.” Now omnipotence would have done something about that
condition before you discovered it, so what have you discovered? You have been fooled by sense
images. They’re very real to you – so real that they make you not love the Lord thy God. They make
you deny the omnipotence and the omnipresence of God, and the omniscience of God, the qualities
of God.

And so you have God permitting somebody to poison His people. You have God permitting
somebody to pollute His atmosphere, but it isn’t His atmosphere. That’s why you think it’s polluted,
because you thought it was His atmosphere; it isn’t. If it were His atmosphere, how could anybody
pollute His atmosphere if God is omnipotent? It would be impossible.

How could anybody suffer a disease of any kind if God were omnipotent? And so, what
you’re saying then is “I have this thing, God is not omnipotent.” Or you’re going all the way out
with the church message that God is punishing you or him or her or that stillborn baby, that God
was punishing that baby too. And God was punishing that mongoloid and that imbecile and that one
and that one and that one. Ridiculous, of course. There’s nobody to punish. There’s only God being.

To love the Lord thy God then with all thy heart, mind and soul means to accept that there’s
only God being. Then who are you? I and the Father are one; one being. Then who is sick? The
image you have conceived of yourself, because you were asleep and the world-mind planted an
image in your mind. And that mind being very versatile, a perfect mirror of the world-mind - it
showed it forth as a perfect reflection of the lie - a perfect Xerox copy of the lie.

And you parade around and you say, “I’ve got this.” Where’s God? Why isn’t God taking it
away from you? Why isn’t God making you better? For the simple reason that God has already
done just that. God has already made you a perfect being. And so be ye perfect.

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 Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart by rejecting every idea, however it may seem total
that you are sick or suffering or lacking or anything of that nature. It’s a lie. It isn’t loving God. Its
not understanding that to love God means to understand the nature of God. You cannot love what
you do not understand. The nature of God is perfection in all things.

The nature of God is one, one body. There is only one body and it isn’t sick. There’s only
one substance, it isn’t sick. There’s only one life, it isn’t sick. What is sick? Nothing. N-o-t-h-i-n-g
is sick. That’s all that can be sick is nothing. And if you persist in thinking that the image is
something, it can be sick. Because when you have an image that you think is something, that is what
idolatry is all about.

Now, you can take a dumb piece of stone or a dumb piece of wood and pray to that or you
can take a dumb image and pray to that or you can go to the kingdom of God within you and you
find you don’t have to pray. The consciousness of the Father is your consciousness. The acceptance
of that consciousness where you are, as present, alive, alert, intelligent, all-knowing, all-powerful is
your guarantee that right now here I am on holy ground.

God is right here. The omnipotence of God is preventing any possibility to that perfection
from being less than Itself. The all-knowing mind is perfectly patrolling It’s kingdom right here.
You’re accepting yourself to be the essence of God. And His essence being pure, perfect forever, to
love God is to accept that that which the Father is, His essence, I am and therefore I am pure, perfect
forever.

You can’t love God and not accept His substance to be your substance. That’s the meaning
of love fulfills the law. You’re accepting God to be your substance, your very being. And then all of
you that is not God - get out of it! Get out of the mind that is not God’s mind! Get out of the body
that is not God’s body! Get out of the life that is not God’s life! There isn’t God life and your life.
There is God life, the essence, the perfect essence, being your perfect life. The one you’re living in
that you think is imperfect is fiction. There is no such life.

And that’s the meaning then in Deuteronomy. And that’s why, when you come across a
passage of the Christ you must not remember it, you must take it into your consciousness and dwell
with it.

Now, if we were to go through this chapter or this book in twelve easy lessons, we would
have a fine memory course. You can’t take the word of Christ that quickly; you’ve got to abide with
it. I must love the Lord my God. I must accept the Lord my God with all my heart, with all my mind,
with all my soul. There’s nothing left that I’ve got to accept with. Now how can I accept anything
else? There’s no room except to accept the Lord. In other words, accept the allness of God.

Do you see that change in consciousness that begins to demand of you “What else am I
accepting beside the presence of God? That’s got to go! The images out here are going to keep
knocking at my door needing help, unless I get into this change of consciousness, which recognizes
only God is present. The only presence on this earth is the presence of God. Only the presence is
present. Only God is present.” Deny it and you’re not loving God with all your heart, mind and
soul.

So, instead of remembering the quotation, remember the Christ of your being spoke it
through Moses. And so get back into your invisible consciousness. Take these phrases and dwell
there with these phrases. Explore them. Let them communicate to you. Open them up like a fan and
examine every word. Spend time with them. They will become your inner Bible. And then when
you have fanned them out and let them speak to you, be still.

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 And they will speak again, in another tongue. In that stillness they will be planted as seeds in
your consciousness, just as the seeds of the tares were planted by the world-mind and let the lie
come to you again; it will find that in you is the truth, which nullifies the lie.

And out there in the image world you’ll find the divine beginning to express in those images
in your world. The uninterrupted flow of the substance of truth in consciousness opens up the
capacity of your consciousness to receive the living substance from the Father. The soul feeds you.
The mind responding to soul no longer projects the duality of the world-mind.

You don’t have to think and think and think; and plan and plan. These words will do it for
you if you will live with them, not in your mind but deeper. They will take you to the ‘above’
universe. They are the messengers. They are the way that the way-shower uses to take you out of
mind into soul. And so that’s why we’re discussing them this carefully this time.

Every time you see a footnote saying Luke 15: 27 if you pass it by, don’t pretend to yourself
that you read that chapter. You didn’t. You read it like people read, but not like students of spirit.
And that’s why we don’t read five books and say, “I’ve read five books of Goldsmith, or I’ve read
them all.” We don’t do it that way. We sip, we cogitate, we contemplate, we commune. We let these
phrases become an integral part of our being. We let them rejoin the Christ within who uttered them
in the first place.

You see, these words and the Christ of your being are inseparable. They have never been
divided. And they return to their source, which is Christ in you. And if you will follow them you
will be led right to the Comforter within. Continue in My words and ye shall know the truth. These
are My words and they will lead you to the Comforter who is the fountain of all truth. And you’ll
find you’ll take dominion over the world of images. Yes, even over the physical form.

Don’t think that we have just walked by and closed our eyes to the things that trouble us. We
haven’t done that at t’all. We’ve simply learned a better way to eliminate from our lives those
things, which are not of God. We’re not blind to these things at all. We’re so aware of them that the
complete dedication of the message is to lead you out of this Egypt of the world-mind in which
diseases are, in which problems are. We’re not unaware of their presence in the world of images;
that’s all it’s filled with. But we don’t have to live in them.

We have an invisible paradise. And as we start to love that paradise we see why the Father
is greater than I. Remember the tumbler in this chapter, and the glass? The glass is the substance of
the tumbler. One is the form and one is the substance. The tumbler is the form, the glass is the
substance. And Joel used that to point out the meaning the Father is greater than I. I, the human
self out here, am the tumbler. The Father is the glass. Translated spiritually, the Father is the
essence and the Christ is the form.

The essence becomes the form. And they are one - they are not separated. And so the Father
and I are one and the Father is greater than I. I am the essence of God made into form. What
form? Not this visible form - into the form, which is made of the essence. The essence of God is
never visible. So I am spiritual form, formed of the essence of God. And that is my name.

And if you listen to a world broadcast and you look at me, you will see a world broadcast in
you, which says that I am physical form. And you will believe it. And you will think I am out here
as physical form. And you will be listening to the false broadcast. I’m not out here as physical form.
And if I look at you, you only seem to be there as physical form. You are the essence of God. That
is your name. That is your substance. And the form of you is formed of that essence. And it isn’t the
form that my eyes can see, because my eyes are also part of the false broadcast. My very senses are
part of the false broadcast. My very physical being is that false broadcast made into visibility.

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 But inside, in my divine consciousness, loving the Father supremely I can shake off the
mortal myth. And you can shake off the mortal myth, until you realize that you are standing in the
presence of God every moment of your life. And that presence is the essence of your being. Honor
it! Love it! And everywhere you look accept only it – not the pollution, not the poison, not the
disease, not the lack, not the limitation. Do not honor them by believing that the image world is real.
And come back to the mind that was accepting them as real. And see that the mind, which accepts
them is also part of the image world. That little brain, which is aware of that which God did not
create, is nothing more than an image. It too is part of the world broadcast.

All of this is to lift us out of the level of human mind into the acceptance of these words,
which are the words of truth. And we steadfastly hold to their truth, instead of the truth that the
human mind tries to bring to us. Why? Because the truth of the human mind is this inner flow from
the world-mind, and we catch it at that level.

Put a little box around it and look at it right inside there and you can see why he could say to
Pilate “Thou hast no power.” Pilate was just a television broadcast to him. Can you fear something
on television? Put a box around it and look at it. That’s what the world-mind is broadcasting to you
all around you. It has no power. It can’t step out of the box. There is no other power than the power
of the One. The essence of God is where the power is and nobody is pushing that power aside.

Now then, you have the power of that essence, which is omnipotent. And so there is nothing
that can enter that can be powerful over omnipotence. There’s no other power. There’s only the
power of good, of perfection. And the broadcast fools you, because it comes out sometimes so close
to home that you think its real.

Now, these phrases become very meaningful and potent as you see that they’re not just
sentences written by an author. They are the word of substance. You can trust these phrases. And
you can look at whatever you see and know that because God is present, and God is the power, that
power is maintaining its own essence right here.

I am perfect now as my Father. And nothing in the world can ever change that – nothing!
There can be a lot of broadcasts, a lot of images saying that I’m not. But nothing can change the fact
that I am as perfect as my Father - never less, because the tumbler is always made of the qualities of
the glass. And the child of God is always made of the qualities of the essence of God. So I cannot be
less than my Father. Or if I think I’m less then I am not loving God supremely. Because who is
there to be less, if God is one? What other one is there to be less?

How could you be less than God, if God is one? I and the Father are one. There’s your
secret - in so many ways. When you and the Father are one in your consciousness, you are
accepting His statement. Not you’re going to become one. His secret was learning that I and the
Father are one.

Now, you could spend another fifty years to prove it. Or you could simply say, “I and the
Father are one. Now what about me is unlike God? Whatever is, is not that one.” This arm isn’t like
God; it can’t be my real arm. The brain isn’t like God; it can’t be your real brain. Your body isn’t
like God; it can’t be your real body. You’re out in the image world. Use that image to its advantage,
for its purpose. Wherever it is imperfect take yourself back into your invisible consciousness.

Now out here there’s arthritis. In your invisible consciousness there must be a belief in
arthritis. Do you see that? There must be a belief there or it couldn’t be out here. This ‘out here
body’ is the mirror through which you see your invisible consciousness. And a belief is in your
invisible consciousness. Now why waste time out here with liniments, or with electrical heating?

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That’s relief. Get rid of the belief out here. How do you do it? That’s what these words are. Do you
believe in here that you can have arthritis, or do you love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind
and soul? Do you love the essence of God you accepted as your essence? Does it have arthritis?
Can it have arthritis? No, but it is my essence. All right. Take these two and sit here until you accept
that essence - and not the conscious belief that you can have arthritis. Because the you that can have
it is saying “I’m not that essence.”

Do you see where you’ve come down to the point where you’ve got to face it? I’m either
that essence of God or I’m accepting myself as something else. And as long as you’re something
else you’re in the world. And the world is not God’s creation. Then you’re asking for trouble. A
greater iniquity can come upon you, and a greater one, and a greater one, and a greater one.
Because the one and only sin is not knowing and believing and accepting and trusting that you are
the essence of God, and therefore the mind, which denies it is a liar. And you will not listen to that
mind but you will listen within yourself. For I and the Father are one essence, today, now, this
minute, forever - before Abraham, and after the world.

Continuous essence of God is your name. You can be no other. Every word then is to make
you consciously drop every belief that denies who you are. In Matthew 5:48 Be ye perfect even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect. And there’s the statement that God is perfect. God is
perfect. 5:48 Matthew. But God is the substance of your being is revealed also in I and the Father
are one. Now, how can you be imperfect if you’re one with the perfect God? To go on believing
you can be is to deny the truth. You suffer from the lie.

You cannot be imperfect. And whatever appears to be imperfect where you are is a lie. The
suffering isn’t happening. The pain isn’t happening. It’s happening in this distortion of image. Get
out of the image back into the consciousness. The consciousness has received a seed or a tare, a lie
-below the level of your knowledge. And now it’s showing forth as an imperfection. But use the
truth in consciousness. God is perfect. I and the Father are one therefore I and perfection are one.
How could imperfection enter perfection? It wouldn’t be perfect if imperfection could enter it.

I am perfect. Now why am I not experiencing that perfection? Because I haven’t quite
accepted that God is the only creation, the only power, the only substance, the only law. And I must
do it again and again and again in consciousness, until something springs up inside me - a great
knowing. This isn’t something I have to make happen. It’s the is-ness of being, now.

Let’s conclude today’s class now with a meditation - letting the fullness of what we have
learned permeate our being.

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