April06StudyGuide

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M.
JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1963 LONDON WORK
“I Am the ‘Way,’” Tape 7, Side 1
12:30 P.M.
VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 2003 ALBUQUERQUE CLASS
"Contemplating Creation," Tape 2, Side 2 (No. 0331)
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TUESDAY, APRIL 11 - at UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE - 7:30 P.M.
GENESIS: AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM, by Virginia Stephenson, Chapter 4.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 16 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M.
JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1963 LONDON WORK
"The Unveiling,” Tape 6, Side 2 (Continued From Side 1)[Rescheduled from 3/5/06]
12:30 P.M.
JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2005 CHICAGO CLASS
"The Art of Life," Tape 2, Side 2 (No. 0524)
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TUESDAY, APRIL 25 - at 259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE - 7:30 P.M.
Class, and Tape: LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1992 GREEN BAY CLOSED CLASS
"Meditation Is the Way," Tape 1, Side 2 Listen to this tape!
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STUDY CHAPTERS FOR APRIL

THE MYSTICAL I, Chapter 4: “I Am the Way;”

I STAND ON HOLY GROUND (‘76 Letters), Chapter 4:
“The Stature of Spiritual Manhood; ”

GENESIS, AN AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM, by Virginia Stephenson, Chapter 4:
“The First Day: Awakening;”

DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Vol. II, by Luella Overeem: April, 1976 Lesson.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

CLASS IN SAN FRANCISCO, BY JOHN STEPHENSON: APRIL 7-9: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foster City,
Announcements will be out the end of January. CONTACT: Marty Parker (408) 910-0927 or email: marty@parkerbiz.com

EXTENDED CLASS IN CHICAGO, BY JOHN STEPHENSON: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, MAY 26-29: Allerton Crowne Plaza Hotel.
CONTACT: Marilyn Rattray (847) 658-3033 (Stop and Store Business - leave message.) MRat8515@aol.com

LUELLA OVEREEM TAPE AVAILABLE ON-LINE: You are invited to join us on 4/25 at 7:30 (or at your
convenience) by listening to Luella’s tape, which is now available as an audio file on infinite-invisible.net.
Just go to the home page, scroll down to Luella’s photo. Just above, is the link to the tape.

HAPPY EASTER! HAPPY PASSOVER!

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EXCERPTS FROM TAPES, FOR STUDY, PRACTICE, AND MEDITATION

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1963 LONDON WORK
"I Am the ‘Way’,” Tape 7, Side 1

One passage of Scripture, incorrectly interpreted, has kept our world in spiritual darkness for 1700 years.

That same passage of Scripture, correctly interpreted, can set the world free. But to accomplish this, there must be the “ten righteous men in

the city”

to show forth the correctness, the rightness, the fruitage of an understanding of that passage. The passage is, “I am the way.” On this

one passage

hinges man’s spiritual ignorance, spiritual darkness, or spiritual enlightenment; and of course, spiritual enlightenment means

freedom, peace,

abundance, all that the Master meant to convey, when he said, “I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have life

abundantly.” When we

personalize that passage, “I am the way,” and believe that it refers to a person, we are then in spiritual darkness. We are

not worshiping God, we are

worshiping “person,” and more especially a person who says, “I can of my own self do nothing ... If I speak of myself

I bear witness to a lie.” Think of

the degree of spiritual ignorance in which one lives, the degree of spiritual darkness, when one worships and

prays to someone who frankly and

openly declares, “I can of my own self do nothing ... If I speak of myself I bear witness to a lie.” Rightly

interpreted, “I am the way” means what it says:

the Way, the Truth, the Life, life more abundant, is to be found in

, the

that I am, the

that you

are, “For you shall call no man on the earth your

father, there is but one Father, and this is God.” Therefore, if God is your Father, then if “I and

my Father are one,” then you and your Father are one.

It is in that oneness that you find spiritual freedom, spiritual harmony, spiritual grace, a

life by grace, “Not by might, not by power, but by MY spirit, saith

the Lord.”

is the way, and that way reveals that

and my Father are one,” and

“Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.”

For Meditation: "Since God alone IS, and is omnipresence, prayer, true prayer, is a state of consciousness, a conscious communion in union."
- Joel, Wisdom #90

For Study: THE MYSTICAL I, Chapter 4.

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 - 12:30 P.M.

VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 2003 ALBUQUERQUE CLASS
"Contemplating Creation," Tape 2, Side 2 (No. 0331)

When we look at the ministry of Jesus, which was only three years, his disciples went out and healed in his name; and when it says “in his

name,”

it means in the name of

. They had caught the message that there is only one Ego, and that is God. So, he sent the 70 out, perhaps

they had only

been with him several years, I guess, but they went out and did wonderful healing work. They came back very enthusiastic, saying

that even the Devil

was subject unto them in his name. Jesus said, “Rejoice not that the devils are subject unto you but that your name is writ in

heaven.” So that the

healing grace was not in any

power

they had, it was in the right-identification in knowing Who they were, that when they

had accepted his instruction to

“Call no man on earth your father, for there is one Father, even God, who is the father of us all.” They had

accepted that truth, and he also instructed

them, and said, “Henceforth, know you no person after the flesh.” He was telling them to look through

the appearance. He said, “Judge not by

appearances, judge righteous judgment,” and the “righteous judgment” is lifting up the

, and seeing

through the appearance to that spiritual Creation,

that man of the first chapter of Genesis, incorporeal, invisible, manifestation that is

incorruptible and eternal, and has no beginning and no ending.

Having someone tell you about the birth of a child that is coming up, how would you spiritually handle that? You would know the truth: “Ye

shall

know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” There is no beginning and ending to God’s creation. It just IS: it already divinely is at the

standpoint of

perfection. You would not take into your mentality the human picture of a newborn babe, ... the

that I am has no birth date and it

has no death date,

because if we have a “birth date,” we have a “death date.” So, this

that I am and this

that you are is the Ancient of Years,

it’s always been and

always will be and it will always express itself as individual being.

So, spiritual maturity, then, is not rejoicing over the healings but that “your name is writ in heaven.” If somebody is benefitted by your

recognition

of the truth of Being, and in the lifting up of the

, that is what you rejoice in, not that the appearance of sick matter changes into

good matter, or little

matter changes into abundant matter. Those are mental games, and it can be done, but that isn’t our work. Our work is

establishing the truth of Being

wherever we go.

For Study: Virginia's Monthly Lesson For April, 2006; Subscriptions for Virginia’s Monthly Lessons:
Leslie Lewis, 340 108th St. West., Bradenton, FL 34209 (941)794-2150 llewis17@tampabay.rr.com

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TUESDAY, APRIL 11 - at UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE - 7:30 P.M.

GENESIS, Awakening From the Dream, by Virginia Stephenson,
Chapter 4: “The First Day ... Awakening”

Creation is the activity of divine Principle revealing eternal Life in an infinite way. Spiritually speaking, there is no beginning and no ending

creation. The Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible begins Genesis in this way: “

In principle

, God created the heaven and the earth.” Life,

Spirit, is

eternally manifesting Itself as incorporeal heaven and earth. With our awakening understanding we see the light and know that there is

a divine

Principle revealing Itself as “heaven and earth.”

The spiritual sense of the word

heaven

is the consciousness of harmony and peace, maintained by Spirit. The spiritual sense of the word

earth

this heavenly consciousness of Light and Love manifesting as spiritual ideas. Thus, Heaven and earth are one, as Principle and Its

ideas are one, and

It is good.

As we seek a clearer view of creation unfolding as Consciousness, we close our eyes in meditation and face the darkness within. As yet, the

spiritual ideas are unformed in our awareness, so that we see and hear nothing. There is only a void, a vacuum. Even though we may hesitate

to enter

this dark womb of silence, we must, if we are to understand the kingdom of God, for within this darkness the Spirit of God moves .

When Jesus said to his disciples, “... Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught,” [Luke 5:4] he was instructing us to

probe

the depths of our being in order to catch the multitude of spiritual ideas. These unseen, but ever available, ideas are waiting to be

brought forth to our

conscious awareness, Patiently searching the deep withinness of our being is a form of creative meditation through which

we enter the kingdom of

God. We are becoming aware of a reality that cannot be defined; we are drawing upon intuition, which is greater than

our physical senses and human

faculties of reason. This new awareness is the beginning of spiritual sense, the first dawning of the light of a

new day.

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” [John 1:5] A darkened understanding is one that is ignorant of

the

spiritual Presence. Since Truth is omnipresent, there can be no absence of Truth; darkness is but a temporary lapse in awareness of our

original state

of being. When there seems to be no spiritual activity, this is our night, but we are resting and waiting patiently for the day, or light.

Day is when the

Spirit is active in us, revealing and illuminating the truth of Being. We are awakening from the dream of a material sense of

existence into the spiritual

sense of creation. At this point in our unfoldment, we are “the people that walked in darkness [and] have seen a great

light ... .” [Isaiah 9:2] This is the

first day of My kingdom.

For Meditation: GENESIS 1:1-5; EPHESIANS 5:14; ISAIAH 30:15

For Study: GENESIS, Awakening From the Dream, Chapter 4.

SIGNPOSTS

“When you are deluded, you have lost sight of your original mind. When you are enlightened, you have found your original mind, and you never

become deluded again. It is like when the sun comes out. It does not combine with darkness. When the sunlight of wisdom and knowledge

emerges, it

does not combine with darkness and delusion.” -

Ma-tsu

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IS belongs to God. “Thou shall not steal.”

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I cannot be compromised by word, thought, or action.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 16 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1963 LONDON WORK
"The Unveiling,” Tape 6, Side 2 (Side 1, Continued - Rescheduled from 3/5/06)

Moses, in teaching that God is beyond knowing, revealed, of course, what must forever stand: that is, that God is incorporeal, spiritual, and

therefore, God cannot be known with the mind. How then, are we to “know God aright”? One wonderful answer in the Bible is that God is in “the

still

small voice,” or that God is revealed through the “still small voice.” This would at least give us a cue. In the moment that we have no concept

of God,

nothing to pray to, when our mind is completely in a listening attitude, now the vessel is emptied of all of its conceptions. Then, what is

revealed to us,

through the still small voice, becomes visible to us as the harmony of spiritual living. This, however, demands of us a great price,

not only that we

permit ourselves to be emptied of all concepts of God, but that we also permit ourselves to be emptied of all beliefs that we

know God’s plan for us,

God’s laws for us, God’s ways for us. If we can pray, “I know not how to pray, or what things to pray for, but let Thy spirit

bear intercession with my

spirit,” we are coming into the highest attitude and altitude of prayer, receptivity, and demonstration.

For Meditation

“You are demonstrating the presence of God every time that you say

‘I’

- close your eyes, turn within with a listening ear - you

are

demonstrating the presence of God; and God will reveal Itself. God will reveal God’s presence in the midst of you. But you must ‘empty out a

way.’ You

must empty the ‘vessel already full.’ You must enter the silence with no conception. Just as having a concept of God prevents the

demonstration of

God, so having the concept of demonstration prevents the demonstration.” -

Joel, from the tape.

For Study: THE MYSTICAL I, Chapter 3.

SUNDAY, APRIL 16- 12:30 P.M.

JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2005 CHICAGO CLASS
"The Art of Life" Tape 2, Side 2 (No. 0524)

What stops the sense of [spiritual] flow is judgment. So now, here is another tool, a metaphysical tool that we have, and that is judgment.

Jesus

said, “Judge not, least ye be judged. ... Judge righteous judgment.” Two parts. “Judgement,” that’s such a Biblical term. So, let’s break

down judgment

into what it is in modern terms. It is naming and labeling: it is saying, “That is evil; that person is a gossip; that situation is bad;

oh, that situation is

good; ... . All of that is judgment, because it is all coming from the personal sense. It is all putting qualities of good or evil on

every situation or every

individual. Now if we judge, if we do that, and we all do it, it just seems to be part of the conditioning of this world, we are

going to be subject to the

same thing. Karma, “as ye sow, so shall ye reap,” is an activity of “this world.” Karma does not exist in “my kingdom.”

There is no karma in the depth of

spiritual consciousness, because there is only One. And karma can’t go from lifetime to lifetime, as thought in

the East. If it did, then it would mean that

karma had a spiritual context to it, and it doesn’t. Individual life is never touched by karma. Whatever

experiences, in our myth-conception of this world,

we bring to ourselves, good or evil, if they are not washed in consciousness, in the awareness

of this oneness, when we make the transition, it is going

to be revealed to us. [Then] we have a chance to enter and to continue on experiencing

life, working through all of the limitations that would bind us to

concepts, any concept. Again, it says in Scripture, “That which you bind on earth,

you bind in heaven; that which you loose on earth, you loose in

heaven.” What does that mean? Whatever concept you hold as reality, here, is

what you are conditioning yourself for out of the physical. When we

uncondition and deprogram ourselves, we find that right here and now we

start glimpsing the spiritual nature of life, we start glimpsing heaven, which is

this atmosphere of peace, of “My peace.” ... When we “take off”

everything that defines us, humanly, what is revealed is our true identity, our

individuality.

For Study: THE THUNDER OF SILENCE, Chapter 2 .

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TUESDAY, APRIL 25 at 259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE - 7:30 P.M.

Class, and Tape: LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1992 GREEN BAY CLOSED CLASS
"Meditation Is the Way," Tape 1 Side 2 * Listen To This Tape!

You can’t forgive anybody, really, unless you know their spiritual identity. We say, “let God forgive the person, or forgive us,” and yet, in a

way,

God can’t forgive anybody, because God doesn’t know about any evil. God doesn’t know that anybody has done anything they shouldn’t

do, and of

course, really, they haven’t! In another sense, God enables us to forgive, which is what it comes down to; because when we have that

inner peace,

that contact with God, we can see, realize, spiritual identity. When you realize spiritual identity, there isn’t anything to forgive a

person

for

. “Forgive”

means “pardon,” and that implies that they they’ve done something you think they shouldn’t have, something, in some

degree, of error. But you see,

that’s all in the human sense, that’s all in the realm of illusion. The truth is spiritual identity, there’s nobody but

God. It doesn’t make any difference if it’

s your kids, your next door neighbor, or Hitler. Any individual on this earth is spiritual identity, whether

they know it or not, and whether or not they

have any idea that they are. When

know it, it’s automatic forgiveness. You see, there is nobody

on this earth that can do anything to us, anymore

than there is anybody that can do anything

for

us. The good is God, and the evil is nobody.

There is only God, and so, any thing we experience, in the

way of being a victim of evil of some kind, is at best because of our ignorance of the

truth. There can’ t be any injustice of any degree, right on through

to crime of the worst kind you can think of, couldn’t take place (or appear to)

unless the so-called “victim” of it believed in two powers. If you believe

that there’s good and evil, if you believe that there are people who

can

do good or evil to you, that can be just or unjust, then that’s what you

can

experience. ... Whatever we’re accepting as real, in our

consciousness, is what we experience. So, it’s that same thing that we keep coming back to: it’

s how I see you that determines my experience

with you. Another way of saying it is “if you see a man stealing a wallet, don’t believe he’s a thief. It isn’t

him; and if he’s stealing

your

wallet, it’s

because you’re believing he

, or somebody is. You’re believing that there is somebody, walking around on

the earth, that’s not God, not God

Being. No matter how horrible people appear to be acting - and that’s a tough one, because you can’t listen to the

news or read a paper without

hearing a million things that are going wrong in the world, that are horrible and unjust and unfair. ... What you are doing,

when you are forgiving,

is acknowledging spiritual identity, and there isn’t any person, any individual who has ever walked the earth who isn’t God

Being, no matter what

they do or how they act or what they say.

For Meditation

: "The picture of the snake and the rope is an illustration of the story of the rope that was, in the absence of light, mistaken for a

deadly snake. The light revealed what was actually present: a rope - not a snake. Where did the snake go? Nowhere. There was no snake. The

snake

existed only as an image in the mind, a false belief, an illusion. A false belief was “destroyed” by knowing the truth. Nothing real is ever

destroyed,

because Reality is God, and God is eternally present.”

"As long as you judge by appearances, appearances is all you will have, and you will not be nourished by pictures, you will not be fulfilled by

pictures.

You will not be fulfilled by anything less than surrendering this picture-in-the-dark of ‘you’, and letting God reveal the Self of you, Itself.

How? By doing

what the principles say to do:

abiding

in the Word, judging righteous judgment, not judging by appearances, resisting not the

pictures called evil,

forgiving the pictures of sin, lack, disease, and acknowledging God in all your ways. Only when you are doing these things

are you not judging, and

therefore, living by appearances.."

- Luella, from the April, 1976 Lesson

SIGNPOSTS

... The Unthinkable does things in ways that we can’t even think of ...

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“All over this world there are prayer groups praying for world peace, and I do not think I am exaggerating when I say that ninety-nine percent of it

is a

waste of human energy. Why? Because they are all going to a spiritual God to find a human solution based on their ideas of the rightness

of it. Until

you understand that God is Spirit, you will never be successful with prayer - whether on the personal level, the national level, or the

international level.

When you come to the conclusion that God is spirit, you will then seek the intervention of spirit, and you will watch in what

way it unfolds humanly.”

- Joel, from CONSCIOUSNESS TRANSFORMED, pg. 535

For Study: