Joel Goldsmith (1)

Joel Goldsmith is one of the truly great spiritual authors.

At first I found this book to be slightly less impressive than others I’ve read by this author. But on re-reading it for purposes of this review I realized that I couldn’t give it less than 5 stars, and particularly when Goldsmith was writing about divine love, the most important thing in the Universe, that which we all contain, that which we all are, this book could not be of lesser value than others dealing with a lesser subject.

Goldsmith tells us that we must begin to see the Christ in everyone we meet, and “the world will begin to present a different picture to us”. People will act in a different way.

We are all “the holy one of Israel”. “Every saint and every devil is that holy one”.

We do not claim that a person’s human form and characteristics are the Christ. But we disregard the appearance of his humanhood and “behold the Christ looking out of his eyes silently, sacredly, secretly”.

“Love is not a sentimental attachment to mankind: love is a law; love is a mode of conduct, an attitude”. “Love is within ourselves … love is something that we let flow out from us”.

When I look at a person “I must look through him and realize that in the midst of him God is, and that God is living his life. I see in him the image and likeness of God, the presence of God, the glory of God”.

We are told that no matter how evil the person appears to be, we should look through that to the divinity which is at the centre of his being and say to ourselves “I love you as I love my Self, because my Self is your Self. God’s Self is my Self and God’s Self is your Self. There is only one spiritual Self”.

As we go about our day we should carry this message silently and secretly, “My peace I give unto you”, the Christ-peace. And in a few days people will begin to change their attitude to us.

The most sacred experience we can ever know is “the love of God flowing without limit or hindrance, the love we feel for God, which is God’s love flowing through us”.

“Love is the ability of the Christ in me to speak to the Christ in you.”

There is a chapter about spiritual marriage, how to express love to your family and upholding your loved ones spiritually.

We should take a five-minute period every day in which we meditate for a different member of our family. Go through the entire family. “Peace comes only when every member of your household is recognized as the son of God.”

“Divine love is that outpouring that asks no return, and seeks no reward.”

The author informs us that his entire aim has been to remove sin, disease and death from the earth.

Most of the things people hate and fear have no real power so the first thing to do is to stop hating and fearing what the world calls evil things.

Love will remove troubles from the world, not the kind of love that seeks a personal return, but the kind of love “that seeks to express its own integrity”.

We must learn to forgive injustice quickly and to forget offenses, realizing that God neither judges nor condemns, and that neither must we.

“Through my consciousness of love, God enters my home, my business, my nation, and this whole Universe”.

We should repeat the following prayer two or three times a day:

“In the name of the Father, peace; be still.
I bring no condemnation into this world. Because of my love for God and for my neighbour, may love flow through my consciousness and bless and forgive and uplift and free mankind – my enemy and my friend, that they may be free of lust and greed and hate and fear and doubt. May God’s love touch their consciousness and awaken their souls.”

As you will see, this book is divinely inspiring and reading it will raise our consciousness.… (mehr)