August06StudyGuide

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 - at

THE INN OF CHICAGO

- 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1961 MAUI WORK

Speaks Unto Me,’" Tape 4, Side 1

12:30 P.M.

VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 2004 PHOENIX CLASS

"Incorruptible Body," Tape 1, Side 2 (No. 0434)

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 - at

UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE

- 7:30 P.M.

GENESIS: AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM

, by Virginia Stephenson, Chapter 8.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 - at THE

INN OF CHICAGO

- 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1960 PERTH, AUSTRALIA CLOSED CLASS

"Spiritual Supply,’" Tape 2, Side 1

12:30 P.M.

JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2006 WAIKIKI CLASS

"Are There Two Worlds?," Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0602)

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 - at

259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE

- 7:30 P.M.

Class, and Tape:

LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1992 GREEN BAY CLOSED CLASS

"Spiritual Identity: Being Taught of God," Tape 3, Side 2

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STUDY CHAPTERS FOR AUGUST

THE MYSTICAL I

, Chapter 8: "I Speaks;"

I STAND ON HOLY GROUND

(‘76 Letters), Chapter 8: "Spiritual Supply; "

GENESIS, AN AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM

, by Virginia Stephenson, Chapter 8:

"The Fifth Day: Infinite Abundance ;"

DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Vol. II

, by Luella Overeem: August, 1976 Lesson.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

CLASS by JOHN STEPHENSON

: SEPTEMBER 22-24, STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT

Stamford Marriott Hotel. CONTACT: Lenore Herzog at LenoreKH@optionline.com

LUELLA OVEREEM TAPE AVAILABLE ON-LINE

: You are invited to join us on 8/22 at 7:30 pm (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.

August, '06 Study Guide Photo: "Sunset Over Pond, Emily Cullen Jess Simons, Grade 6 (Austin Waldorf School)

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EXCERPTS FROM TAPES, FOR STUDY, PRACTICE, AND MEDITATION

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 - at THE

INN OF CHICAGO

- 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1961 MAUI WORK

Speaks Unto Me,’" Tape 4, Side 1

In quietness and in confidence shall thou realize that "I in the midst of thee am mighty." In quietness and in confidence shall thou realize,

"Be not afraid," ... "they have only the arm of flesh," carnal weapons. "I in the midst of thee am mighty," and "I will never leave thee nor forsake

thee;" only, be not afraid. Yes, it goes a step further, and it reveals that

, also, the

that is speaking to me, is the

of that army that is

marching against me. The

that is my abiding place, my dwelling place, is the

of your being, you my friends, or you my foes; and

dwell in you,

and

dwell in them. As

dwell in thee, so do

dwell in them, so do

dwell in all. In meeting friend and in meeting foe, you are meeting Me!

Recognize Me in the midst of you, and then recognize me in the midst of your friends, and recognize Me in the midst of your foes. Recognize

that there is but one Divine Selfhood, one Father of us all; and you will soon see that the only enemies you ever had consisted of your own

belief in a selfhood separate and apart from Me. Even if you recognized Me as your selfhood, you still thought of others as having some other

selfhood than me. ...

am your meat and your wine and your water, but

am this to all men.

For Meditation

: "Men, judging by human standards, complain that prayer is not answered. To benefit by prayer, it is necessary to give up all

personal concepts of good. Do not try to fit answered prayer into the mold of human desire.." - Joel, Wisdom #34.

For Study

: THE MYSTICAL I, Chapter 8.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 - 12:30 P.M.

VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 2004 PHOENIX CLASS

"Incorruptible Body," Tape 1, Side 2 (No. 04340)

The structural sense of body is a belief. It’s a way of seeing, the way the senses construct the appearance; and this is a non-structural

universe, this is a spiritual universe. This is becoming more apparent to us, and such pictures as this movie

What the Bleep Do We know?

tells

us a lot about that from the standpoint of quantum physics. It gave a wonderful example, in this movie, of water, the form of water; and when

the monk meditated, the water became beautiful, beautiful mandalas, like ice crystals, beautiful shapes. But when there was anger, the water

was like a raging sea, with little red edges; and our body is 98% water, and a few little minerals. Scientists say the minerals would fit on the top

of a pin-head, that our body is made out of. This is scientifically true. So, you see that the carnal mind is projecting a structural picture of

humanity and of creation, and that structure is built upon the belief in good and evil, fear and desire. When we are aware of that, and we can

identify with the

that was never born and never dies, that

that is our Christhood, and we can rest in that inner peace, if we are 98% water,

think of the harmony that is established in our bodies when we meditate, and the beauty and the order of it. So, you see how indoctrinated

mankind is in materialism, the material

sense

of structure. [For example] There is no structure to a tree: it’s almost completely carbon dioxide

and water, and those elements are invisible; but our senses interpret that tree as structural.

What does this mean to us? It means that we have to correct our vision, our seeing, and when we look out at the world, it’s like we had

to adjust binoculars and true them up. "What am I looking at? Am I looking at what the ordinary individual believes that is there, or am I looking

through the lense of Spirit and seeing what God sees, and knowing what God knows, and feeling what God feels, and thereby experiencing

what God experiences. So, the change is never "out here," the change in time and space: the change is in consciousness, in our self, in our

perception of how we view the universe, how we view creation.

For Study

: Virginia's Monthly Lesson For August, 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, AUGUST 8 - at

UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE

- 7:30 P.M.

GENESIS, Awakening From the Dream, by Virginia Stephenson

Chapter 8: "

The Fifth Day

: Infinite Abundance"

After the keystone experience of fulfillment on the fourth day is realized in our individual awareness, the discoveries of the first three

days are fulfilled in the last three days. The ideas of Soul, as revealed in the third day, are expanded in the fifth day. "Living creatures" are

brought forth; abundant expressions of life fill the earth, each containing the seed of its renewal. As the pattern discovered in the third day is

"like begets like," so the fulfillment of this in the fifth day is

multiplication

and

abundance

. The renewal and regeneration of life in unlimited,

unfolding from an infinite Source ... and it is good.

Jesus said to his disciples, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your

eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." [John 4:35] There is no process in creation. Only as we limit the flow of the

Trinity - Life, Truth, and love - by believing in the appearance of good and evil does creation appear to change or evolve. Consciousness unfolds

the spiritual ideas of creation individually according to the readiness of each of us to receive it. But, in reality, creation is already complete her

and now, and Consciousness unfolds as the completed spiritual Idea. God speaks, and it is done.

Infinite Life, omnipresent Love, progressively discloses spiritual ideas of abundance and mobility to us. Instead of stationary forms, such

as grass and trees, on the fifth day we now have ideas that have great movement, that can swim in the seas or fly in the open firmament of

heaven. The allusion to creatures that fly above the earth in the open firmament is often used in Scripture, meaning tha spiritual ideas of Truth

and Love fill consciousness with inspiration. "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as

eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." [Mark 4:26,27]

These spiritual impartations give us the ability to soar above the finite sense of difficulties into the rarified atmosphere of Soul. We are no

longer earthbound by the finite sense of self; we are living in the eternal Nowness of Being. As inspiration permeates our being, we experience

an awareness of the unlimited universe in which we live. Our body is no longer in bondage to a physical sense, because it no longer intrudes

into our thought. In meditation, Soul soars fetterless and free. We can close our eyes, forget our body, and be any place we want to be. We

are absent from the material sense of body and present with an infinite sense of Being.

For Meditation

: GENESIS 1:20-23

For Study

: GENESIS, Awakening From the Dream, Chapter 8.

SIGNPOSTS

"The spiritual Body is not structural. It is incorporeal and invisible, and yet it has form, outline, and color. This spiritual idea of Body is

omnipresent; it does not function in time or space. The infinite Being is expressing Itself infinitely, eternally, and immortally as our individual

experience, an experience that has no beginning and no ending." -

Virginia Stephenson

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"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes." -

Pablo Picasso

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"That is why we are on this path. Remember, the work I have in mind isn’t so much learning the letter of truth. Ultimately I hope you will see

just two points: ‘I and the Father are one [John 10:30] ... all that the Father hath is mine,’ [John 16:15] and that all there is to error is that

illusory sense that makes the tracks seem to come together or makes a white poodle where there isn’t one. Then be finished with the letter of

truth. From there on, just learn to live in spiritual consciousness and to live as spiritual consciousness." -

Joel, CONSCIOUSNESS IN

TRANSITION, Pg. 164

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 - at

THE INN OF CHICAGO

- 11:00 A.M.

JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1960 PERTH, AUSTRALIA CLOSED CLASS

"Spiritual Supply,’" Tape 2, Side 1

In the spiritual life is quite a fascinating subject; and demonstrating supply is an interesting experience. The first step that has to be

done is to impersonalize it, so that you do not think in terms of "my supply" or "your supply," but as if you are undertaking an experiment for

the benefit of the world; you wanted to prove a principle, because whatever is true about supply is true about your supply or mine. There is

no such thing as a truth about supply for me that isn’t true about supply for you, individually or collectively, or whether it concerns our

personal family finances or our business finances or church finances. In other words, in the spiritual realm we are always dealing with principles,

and when we are dealing with principles, the truth about them is equally the truth about any or every individual on the face of the globe. The

only reason why we don’t all equally demonstrate it is, of course, that we do not

know

the truth; and you can only demonstrate whatever of

truth you know. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free;" but you must know it, and any truth that you do not know, you

cannot expect to demonstrate. Therefore, there is no truth about "your supply," and there is no truth about "my supply," there is no truth

about "this center’s supply," or "a churches supply:" there is only a truth about Supply, and this is universal. Once it is understood, it makes no

difference whether we have to finance our families, whether we have to finance a church, or whether we have to finance a world-wide

movement. Makes no difference, because once the principle is learned, the amount involved is of no importance. It is just as easy to

demonstrate a hundred thousand pounds and year as it is one thousand pounds a year, if you know the principle, and if there is any legitimate

need for the larger amount. Spiritually, you couldn’t demonstrate an amount that would be used for selfish purposes or wrongful purposes. You

couldn’t even demonstrate one pound, if behind the attempted demonstration is a wrong motive, a selfish motive, or a destructive one. So

then, the entire subject of supply must be approached from the standpoint of "your supply" or "mine," but what is the principle of supply.

... To begin with, supply is never visible. No one has ever seen supply. There is no such thing as a supply that can be seen. All that you

ever see about supply is the

effect

of supply, but never the supply itself.

... Money is not supply. The merchandise in your shop is not supply. Your supply is the Life that animates you.

For Meditation

: "Santa Claus God! The reason all desire is sin is that desire is based on the concept of a giving or a withholding God. Also,

desire is based on the acceptance of something or someone or someplace other than God." Joel, Wisdom #89

For Study

: I STAND ON HOLY GROUND, Chapter 8.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 20 - 12:30 P.M.

JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2006 WAIKIKI CLASS

"Are There Two Worlds?," Tape 2, Side 1 (No. 0602)

Joel was asked, "Why is there sin? Why did Adam eat the apple that Eve offered?" He always responded that that’s not a question to ask,

because it is dealing with "this world." If you want to find out more about this world, there are all the branches of science. There is everything

that you can study about this world; but if you want to find out about the nature of God, that is an irrelevant question to ask, because in God,

man has never fallen. In God, man exists in this atmosphere of

-ness. Man exists in the presence of peace; man exists inseparable from God;

and the only way that we become separated is if we start looking at our individual experience and start personalizing it. Now, we have within

us the metaphysical tools and the mystical principles to guide us away from this tendency to personalize and allow us to maintain the vision of

spiritual reality here and now. It is termed, in our Western culture, "the Christ."

Paul told us to "have that mind which was in Christ Jesus." Now what did Christ Jesus have that allowed him to function in the world but

not be of the world? What was that nature? Well first, it was an unshakable awareness, knowledge, that there is no separation between the

that I am and God: "Thou seest me, thou seest the Father that sent me." Secondly, there was the awareness that all the appearances of "this

world" are due to judgment, and JUDGMENT IS THE ACTIVITY THAT PERSONALIZATION USES TO CREATE CONCEPTS. ... Judgement causes and

attaches us ... it is the glue that attaches us to concept; and it is those concepts that we hold personally that create our own experience, and

it is the concepts that we hold socially, world-wide, universally, that create the appearances of this world. So if we are aware of this, and have

"that mind that was in Christ Jesus, we can start seeing through the appearances: our individual judgments and the universal judgments.

For Study

: A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY, Chapter 1 .

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 22 at

259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE

- 7:30 P.M.

LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1992 GREEN BAY CLOSED CLASS

"Spiritual Identity: Being Taught of God," Tape 3 Side 2 *

Go to infinite-invisible.net to listen

Question

: "Since my early connection with the Infinite Way, I’ve wished we had another word for the ‘Ultimate Good.’ I’ve found it confusing

to hear about ‘good and evil,’ in one breath, and then that ‘God is only good.’

Answer

: "Well, it’s true! ‘Good and evil’ is a pair of opposites, and it would really be more accurate if you called it ‘better and worse’ instead

of ‘good and evil,’ because it’s relative. The good is relative, in the human state of consciousness. In this world, the good is relative to the

evil:

this

is better than

that

, but it’s never all good, without an opposite. That’s what it is: it’s better than the evil; and as that saying goes,

‘there is so much good and so much evil in all of us.’ Well, on the human level there certainly is; and nobody is all-good and nobody is all-evil. It’

s an impossibility, because as I said, it’s a coin, it’s got two sides to it, and it is, really, ‘better’ and ‘worse.’ The Ultimate Good that God is,

‘my peace’ or ‘my kingdom,’ there’s no opposite,

It has no opposite

, so there’s total, complete Good. There’s no opposite to God, good is all

there is. It’s the reality; it’s the difference between reality and illusion.

For Meditation and Study