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SUNDAY, JULY 6 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1954 NEW YORK PRACTITIONER CLASS “Principles of Spiritual Living,” Tape 1 Side 2 12:30 P.M. VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 1987 ASILOMAR RETREAT “Release the Hidden Splendor,” Tape 4, Side 2 (No. 8725) ************************************************ TUESDAY, JULY 8 - at UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE - 7:30 P.M. VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MONTHLY LESSONS OF 1995 July, 1995 Lesson: “Secrecy, Silence, and Sacredness” ************************************************ SUNDAY, JULY 20 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO - 11:00 A.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1955 JOHANNESBURG CLOSED CLASS “Spiritual Breakfast (Concl.) and Nature of Prayer (Beg.),” Tape 3, Side 1 12:30 P.M. JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2008 DALLAS CLASS "Defining Spiritual Terms," Tape 1, Side 1 (No. 0810) ************************************************ TUESDAY, JULY 22 - at 259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE - 7:30 P.M. Class, and Tape: LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1980 DEARBORN, MI CLOSED CLASS "Release Love/ The Purpose of Healing Work," Tape 2, Side 2 ************************************************************************************************************************** STUDY CHAPTERS FOR JULY THE WORLD IS NEW, Chapter 10, “The Prayer of Understanding,” & Chapter 11, “Spiritual Living;” VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MONTHLY LESSONS OF 1995, July: “Secrecy, Silence, and Sacredness;” GOD FORMED US FOR HIS GLORY (‘78 Letters), Chapter 7, “The Cornerstone of Spiritual Healing and Living;” DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Vol. II, by Luella Overeem: July 1978 Lesson. ************************************************************************************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS BOB HARPER CLASS, JULY 25-27, LAGUNA BEACH, CA.; Courtyard by Marriott: 23175 Avenida de la Carlota, Laguna Hills, California 92653. Tel: 949-859-5500. Please mention the Bob Harper Class CONTACT: Dorothy Leight (949) 583-1240, or Email: GaryHogan@webtv.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~ LUELLA OVEREEM TAPE AVAILABLE ON-LINE: You are invited to join us on 7-22 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, ******************************************************************************************************************* EXCERPTS FROM TAPES FOR STUDY, PRACTICE, AND MEDITATION SUNDAY, JULY 6 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO- 11:00 A.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1954 NEW YORK PRACTITIONER CLASS “Principles of Spiritual Living,” Tape 1 Side 2 What constitutes our humanhood are these appearances and temptations to accept a selfhood apart from God or a power apart from God, a presence a part from God. That constitutes, really, our entire human experience. That is all there is to humanhood. If it weren’t that we were faced, every day, with the appearance of a power apart from God, the appearance of a selfhood apart from God, there would be no humanhood. We’d be living, right now, in our spiritual identity, because the actual truth is that heaven and earth are one. “As in heaven, so on earth;” God is the only power. Heaven and earth are one. The Master said that when you understood this oneness, the within and the without to be the One, then you’d be in the kingdom of heaven. … In that vision of a progressively unfolding spiritual identity, you lose your fear of death; and in proportion as you lose your fear of death, you find that it becomes impossible to die. It’s a very strange thing that the person in fear of death is apt to bring death upon himself at any moment. Whereas, the person who has once come to a place where they say, “Living or dead, I live,” even then they can’t die in the flesh or out of the flesh, even then their human sense of existence is far prolonged. It is very much like the spiritual principle of “Loose him, and let him go.” If you notice a person intent on supply loses even the little bit that they have; and the very moment that they lose their desire for supply or their search for supply, … from that moment on, their supply begins to flow. … When we come to that feeling or realization of the Presence, we call that “having made contact;” but the contact was there all the time: “I and my Father are one.” Neither this teaching nor any other teaching on the face of the earth will make ever make a mortal immortal: it will only reveal that that which you have called “mortal” is already immortal. … The work of a spiritual teaching is to reveal God as individual being, as your individual life. Then, you do not have to seek healing, you have to realize Health or Harmony. If I should at any time ask you for help, please don’t throw me any metaphysical cliches. Don’t tell me, “It isn’t true,” and “It doesn’t hurt,” because I am apt to get very mad. All I ask, when I ask for help, is that you say, “Yes, I’ll give it;” and then, sit back and what ever it is that the good God gives you in realization, have it secretly and silently, and I will feel it openly. But I get awfully antagonistic when people hand me these ready-made cliches that they haven’t already attained, because if they had, I’d be feeling the effects of it before they could voice it. … In teaching, you do present the principles, but you’re not presenting them as a treatment. I don’t like treatments. For Meditation: Jesus said, “Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not understand that the one who made the inside is also the one who made the inside?” … Jesus said, “When you make the two into one, you will become children of humanity, and when you say, ‘Mountain, move from here,’ it will move.” - Gospel of Thomas For Study: THE WORLD IS NEW, Chapters 10 and 11. SUNDAY, JULY 6 - 12:30 P.M. VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE 1987 ASILOMAR RETREAT “Release the Hidden Splendor,” Tape 4 Side 2(No. 8725) … A wonderful practice is that in the morning, sit down with pencil and pad, and start with the first truth that comes to you. Write it down and wait for another truth. Don't seek, just wait for it to come into your awareness. Start the flow and you'll find that you'll be writing pages and pages. Truth is revealing itself within yourself, and you'll see this is the “Oil of my lamp,” the Truth I have in my consciousness, the Light within me. [You’re] not getting it from a book or someone else, it's coming within your self, flowing out, and you're becoming aware of it. Because Grace and truth operate (always together) you can not apply truth to any problem. Truth is of another dimension; but when you allow the flow of truth you are listening to the word of God and writing it. This is an activity of Divine Grace. Grace meets the human need at the level of your receptivity. If, in your need, you have a sore hand or a sore foot, or something of that nature, you'll have a healing. Now truth was effective in that you never apply it. You just allow it to come into your conscious awareness. You recognize that, “I have this Oil.. I have what is called ‘a Christ-activated Consciousness.” As you let truth come forth and ponder it, you realize, “I do have a consciousness of Truth.” You also have a consciousness Love, because you're loving the Truth or you wouldn't be setting aside time to do this exercise of love. You begin to appreciate this activity, because Truth and Love is a vital activity. This activity that you have in the morning awakens your dormant understanding. “He awakened their understanding.” He opened their understanding. Now you have a vital activity of the Christ. This is Substance without ever connecting it to a physical problem. Grace will meet the human need at the level of your understanding. For Study: Virginia's Monthly Lesson For July, 2008; Subscriptions for Virginia’s Monthly Lessons: Leslie Lewis, 240 Makee Rd, #10A, Honolulu, HI 96815 (808)779-9817 llewis002@hawaii.rr.com
TUESDAY, JULY 8 - at UNITY ON THE NORTH SHORE - 7:30 P.M. VIRGINIA STEPHENSON: THE MONTHLY LESSONS OF 1995 “Secrecy, Silence, and Sacredness,” July, 1995 Monthly Lesson When we are “babes in Christ” we really don’t know very much, but we think we do. We speak a lot of words, but they are only clichés: the words we speak have no power. Contemplating the Word, thinking about It silently, has a lifting action in consciousness, even though we might not feel it. When we come to a place in meditation where we no longer think, we listen, and Truth utters Itself to us. This is the Word made flesh, and It is the power. “Be still, and know that I am God”. Agreement is another attitude that we must recognize as essential within our families, our business, and other relationships. Meditate often on agreement, [See Virginia’s book, Agreement: An Attitude of Prayer] remembering that there is only one mind, and that, therefore, the mind of me agrees with the mind of you. I may not agree with the human concepts that you entertain, because human concepts rise only from our human frame of reference, not from the mind. They rise from a memory, from something that we have learned from our parents or from an experience in the past. The mind of me agrees with the mind of you, not because we agree with each other’ s concepts, but because there is only one mind, which is an instrument for God, an avenue of awareness through which spiritual ideas take form and are expressed. When we use the mind to condemn, criticize, and judge, we are using it as an instrument of warfare. We are using mental power, and we are “killing” with human judgments those whom we condemn; it is a form of mental malpractice. If they are unaware of the power of the mind, they are defenseless. If we hold anybody in our mind as a sick mortal or a well mortal, a sinning mortal or a good mortal, we are malpracticing the child of God. Any discord in our life enters at the mental level, never at the physical. Certainly it can never enter at the Soul level, because there is not such thing as a sinning soul-God is the soul of man. The only place that discord can ever enter is at the mental level. The minute we identify anything as good or evil, giving power to the appearance, we alter our mental perception. We do tend to see certain forms as evil--sickness certainly isn’t good, but sickness isn’t evil. It is a deflection of being, an imperfect reflection of the real, but the real is always here and now. Healing is the revealing of that which already divinely is. This is God’s world, and we are God’s children. Flesh and blood does not reveal this; only spiritual illumination can reveal this to us. Even with our metaphysical consciousness we cannot interpret the universe, although we do practice replacing the false concept with the letter of truth. But it is only when Christ interprets the universe for us that we see it as it really is. When we are in agreement that there is only the one mind, unconditioned and pure, and we turn within to the silence of Soul, then the great Interpreter reveals the Truth to us. In secrecy, silence, and sacredness, the hypnotism of this world is broken, and harmony is experienced once again. For Meditation: “God is, I AM. I AM is expressing Itself in infinite form and variety through the one infinite, unconditioned mind. Every individual expression is unconditioned and pure, unlimited, and nothing can enter this mind of a material or mortal nature that “defileth … or maketh a lie” [Revelation 21:27] “I lift up my gaze to the I, which is the divine Consciousness, in which all spiritual being and idea is held under God’s government. I turn away from the misconceptions that are being reflected, and undisturbed by those appearances, I look to the I, the Christ, which is the upholding principle of all creation.” - Virginia For Study: THE JULY, 1995 MONTHLY LESSON, by Virginia Stephenson Signposts “As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson *********************************************************************************************************************************** SUNDAY, JULY 20 - at THE INN OF CHICAGO- 11:00 A.M. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH: THE 1955 JOHANNESBURG CLOSED CLASS “Spiritual Breakfast” (Concl.), and “God, Prayer, and Meditation” (Beg.), Tape 3, Side 1 You have to know the nature of God. You have to know the nature of the Son of God. Then you’ll never try to make a sick person well, you’ll never try to stop a pain, you’ll never try to save a dying person. No, your whole attention would be: “Thank God my spiritual vision enables me to see the Son of God!” That constitutes pure spiritual healing – the ability to realize that God constitutes individual being and therefore individual being IS intact. Is that point clear? …The nature of a practitioner is not, literally speaking, a healer. Those are just words that have been used. Actually, we’re not healers nor do we have any healing ability. …we are individuals who have received the understanding that God constitutes individual being, and therefore, individual being is spiritual and intact. Now you see that has nothing to do with changing you or your body or your health. It has to do with realizing the intactness of your being because of your God nature. Then, to that understanding, add this inner meditation, communion, realization, until the click comes, and then you’ve got a practitioner; but you never had a good practitioner with a “good healing ability.” You never had a good practitioner who has God power to heal – because there is no such thing in God’s kingdom. If God had any need of healing, He’d do it Himself. There isn’ t healing to be done. GOD’S UNIVERSE IS INTACT. … You never know what lies ahead of you when you yourself are not outlining your future but are permitting the grace of God to take over. And that brings us to a passage of scripture which is one of the most important in all of the Infinite Way teaching: “Thy grace is my sufficiency in all things.” In accepting that as a code of life, we are saying: “I am not asking for dollars, I am not asking for homes, I am not asking for demonstrations, I am realizing that if I have Thy grace, I have sufficiency and Thy grace is my sufficiency, and I abide in that realization – ‘Thy grace is my sufficiency.’” And then, as if you had horses’ blinders on, you keep your vision straight ahead, looking neither this way or that way for your life or your demonstration, but, “Thy grace is my sufficiency.” Then you watch that spiritual Grace take form in what we call human forms of good, human terms of good, human avenues or channels of good. “THY GRACE IS MY SUFFICIENCY.” We can even take that into meditation, and for a few moments just dwell on that – Thy grace is my sufficiency, Thy gifts, Thy presence is my sufficiency. All I ask in this world is a realization of God’s presence. Having that, I have all; having all but that, I have nothing. “THY GRACE IS MY SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS.” For Meditation: “Be content with that which is.’”– Joel, Wisdom #26 For Study: GOD FORMED US FOR HIS GLORY (1978 LETTERS), Chapter 7. SUNDAY, JULY 20, 12:30 P.M. JOHN STEPHENSON: THE 2008 DALLAS CLASS "Defining Spiritual Terms," Tape 1, Side 1 (No. 0810) “When Christ enters into our experience, we have a change in consciousness or a change in perception which gives us the ability to look at this world not completely from our human sensory perception, but to begin to see the spirit existing right where what we perceive as reality exists.” “The world is new when we are aware of our spiritual nature, because we suddenly have the connection, you might say, to that spiritual nature of life which is omnipresent. It is omniscient, it is omnipotent. It is a set of principles that are universal, and these principles, when known and understood and accepted in consciousness, are the foundation of spiritual law. . . . Joel speaks a lot about law in “The World Is New,” and laws are based on principles: without a principle there really is no law. If you have a dictator or a tyrant or king, or someone like that, he can make laws, but there is no principle behind that law. All there is is ego or someone’s personal sense of what is good and what is not. But when you have a universal principle behind a law, that law becomes inviolate. In other words, that law cannot be altered and changed. The law of “like begetting like” is inalterable. You cannot put the two components together in reproduction and not get what the DNA of those components say what you are going to get. Like begets like. When you are aware of that spiritual nature and you understand the principles that comprise this spiritual nature, you bring yourself under spiritual law, and that law supersedes any material concept of law. For Study: THE WORLD IS NEW, by Joel Goldsmith *********************************************************************************************************************************** TUESDAY, JULY 22, at 259 SKYLINE DR., CARPENTERSVILLE - 7:30 P.M. Class and Tape: LUELLA OVEREEM: THE 1980 DEARBORN, MI CLOSED CLASS "Release Love/ The Purpose of Healing Work," Tape 2, Side 2 Click on this link to hear the tape! 1980 Dearborn Closed Class, Tape 2, Side 2 Question: “Please speak of love. How can I release, be a channel for love? There seems to be that block of personal sense that is not yet dissolved. Is it something that we must just wait to evolve?” Answer: “No, you can wait forever, and it’s not going to fall on your head, out of the blue! Everything that we attain, even when it seems to come by grace, comes because of your readiness, your preparation, and that is work. It takes work. It takes conscious effort. There isn’t any easy way that you can attain Christhood, none that I’ve ever heard of. It takes work, and it takes years. But each day that you are making that effort, you’re turning within, you’ re studying, you’re practicing, you get enough “manna” for the day. You don’t have to get enough today to last for the next 100 years, and you never will anyway. It’s today’s manna, and today’s manna is sufficient unto the moment. You get what you need as you need it, if you are looking within, looking to God for it. That’s why you don’t need to worry about tomorrow. We just live NOW, there’s no tomorrow; and not even an hour from now. There’s just NOW, and if we are turning within, and being fed from within, we have a sufficiency, because GOD’S GRACE IS SUFFICIENT; and it’s sufficient until the flow comes again; but you have to keep tuned-in. And this love … of course, that’s the answer. If you are not experiencing love, it’s personal sense, because you can’t love anybody, and nobody can love you! Love is a God quality, and you cannot love anybody. If you have the human sense of love, that’ s nothing but emotion, it’s on the level of like and dislike, the pairs of opposites; but it’s not love, because ‘love is God’ [See 1 John 4:7], and the only way you can ‘have’ love is to let it flow out through you. It’s just the same as supply, or health, or anything else: you can’t get it. You have to give it, and giving it means letting it flow out through you to the world universally. You don’t pinpoint where it’s going to flow to, that it is going to flow to this person or that person, or that it is going to flow in the form of health or money or something else. You can only let it flow and let it take form as it will; but it is God’s love, and there isn’t any other form of love. If you think you can love or be loved, you are personalizing it. It’s the same way with companionship or with any human relationship. You can’t make peace with a person. You try to make peace with a person, you’ll just have more trouble, because you have to make peace with God. When you have peace, oneness, with God within you, then you have peace with your brother or with your wife, husband … employees, neighbor, whatever. Not by dealing with them, but by maintaining you’re contact with God, which is Love. For Study: DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS, Vol. II: July, 1978 Lesson. SIGNPOSTS Everything from “A” to “Z” Is NOT what it appears to be. Everything that you can hear, Or taste, or see, or smell, or fear, Is putting on a make-believe, And hiding Something up its sleeve. At first to you it may seem odd That everyone’s REAL name is God. God is the hidden Self behind What we call falsely, humankind. God is not something your eyes can see; God is invisible to you and to me. So how can you know that God is near, And there is nothing at all to fear? You can know without a bit of doubt That God is within you and all about; By opening up your inner ear, And sitting quietly, you can hear God, Himself, tell you that He is here. God speaks to you and makes it clear. There’s nothing else you need to know When God, Himself, tells you it’s so. – Luella Overeem, TREASURE HUNT #6 |
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