When Lorraine Sinkler (Joel Goldsmith's long-time editor and
author of the biography, The Spiritual Journey of Joel S. Goldsmith)
worked with Joel he told her "There was to be a minimum of
factual data because that was not the measure of the man: what
counted was what he was and his work."
Joel Goldsmith was born in New York City on March 10, 1892.
His parents were born in New York city also. They were married
in 1891 and Joel was their first child. He had a brother two years
and four months younger and a sister four years and four months
younger.
His father while in his twenties was earning from $12,000 to
$15,000 a year, quite a substantial amount for the early 1900's.
Joel lived with his parents in a furnished ten-room apartment
on Riverside Drive. There was a very close relationship between
Joel and his mother. His father traveled extensively in the course
of his business.
At an early age his mother told him "I know what is wrong
with you, Joel. You are looking for God." He replied "Mom,
how can you say that? I don't even know if there is a God."
"Oh, but I know that you are looking for God." When
he was nineteen, he told his mother "I have discovered you
are right. There is a God, but I can't find Him. No matter to
whom I talk, they don't seem to know Him.
Though his parents were Jewish, Joel received little training
in religious ways except when he was twelve and a half he was
sent for some instruction so that he could be confirmed at thirteen.
To him confirmation was an unpleasant experience; he rebelled
against the kind of prayer uttered on that day, and he never went
back
Joel's formal schooling terminated after a few months in high
school. When he was sixteen and a half he was taken to Europe
on a buying expedition as an assistant to his father, who was
a buyer of European laces and allied lines of merchandise. In
1915 on one of the buying trips his father became ill and was
taken off a ship at Southampton, and rushed to Nottingham, where
he was in a hospital seventy-seven days. Then the cable came "Goldsmith
dying. Send for body."
That night after putting his mother on a ship for England Joel
had an engagement to take a friend to dinner. He called at the
home to explain the situation and the girls' father then asked,
"When did your father die?" Joel replied "He is
not dead yet but he is dying or he may be dead by now." "Oh,
no" the girl's father said, "you are a very young man,
and your father must be comparatively young, too. He doesn't have
to die." That seemed a strange statement to Joel. The doctors
said so and he had been in the hospital for seventy-seven days.
"Well, have you ever heard of prayer and prayer healing?"
"No, the only prayer I know is 'Now I lay me down to sleep.'
Do you mean Christian Science?' "Yes. I am a Christian Science
practitioner, and I do believe it." "If you can help
him, of course, do so. It would be a marvelous thing if he could
come home."
The miraculous recovery of his father led Joel to begin a study
of Christian Science, in which he sought answers to the questions
that naturally arose in the mind of a person who had traveled
the world as he had, questions that kept plaguing him with an
urgency that drove him on.
"My entire family background is Hebrew, and never in my
life had I known anything of a Christian teaching. In fact, I
had never known anything of any teaching except the Ten Commandments.
But when I was nineteen whether it was the Voice or an impression,
Something within me said, "Find the man Jesus, and you will
have the secret of life." That was a strange thing to say
to me because I knew nothing of Jesus Christ beyond the name and
that Christmas was a holiday celebrating his birth. But from that
minute on my life has been dedicated to that man Jesus and his
secret."
Six months after that, this Voice or impression said, "Become
a Mason and learn about God." I knew nothing about Masonry,
and there was no one in my family who knew anything about it.
So I learned that I would be eligible to join a Masonic Order
when I was twenty-one. The Voice fulfilled Itself in Its promise
because the first night in the Masonic lodge I learned something
about God that I had never known before and also something about
prayer." Joel's Scottish Rite affiliation was in Honolulu.
During the war as a Marine he was stationed at Parris Island.
During that time he served as Second Reader in a Christian
Science Society organized for a little group of Marines. It was
during this time of pondering for many hours on how it was possible
to follow the teaching of the Master, Christ Jesus, and go out
and kill that he opened the Bible to the passage "Neither
pray I for these alone." In that moment the passage was illumined
for him and he saw the mistaken zeal in the practice of the churches
that opened their doors to pray for victory while none of them
were praying for the enemy. Suddenly he knew that he only righteous
or effectual prayer anyone could pray is the prayer for the enemy,
a form of prayer which from that moment on he began to practice
diligently.
After the war, when Joel's business collapsed he became critically
ill with tuberculosis and was given three months to die. He decided
to seek help from a Christina Science practitioner, and in three
months he made a compete recovery.
After Joel married Rose Robb they decided to move to Boston.
Joel's Christian Science teacher, who lived in Boston, discouraged
him about making this move, saying, "I can't have you in
Boston; you are too good a man. I have plans for you, and you
will just break your heart here. You can't make good here.
"Well, this in New England. You have a Jewish name and
Jewish face, and they are not going to like it. New Englanders
are very conservative. Furthermore, they don't pay a practitioner
enough to support your family the way you want to live."
He went on to tell Joel what some of the practitioners earned
in Boston, some of the very good ones. So Joel said, "Well,
you have forced me to move to Boston, because to me this is a
principle. If it doesn't work in Boston, it isn't a principle.
It's got to work even if I were cast out on the ocean or in the
desert. If it doesn't , I will have to give this up and go back
to business, because business does operate on principle. If you
know your product and if you give good service, you can't fail,
and I can always go back to business."
"All right," was Joel's response. "Let make
it more foolish. For one year I will not go inside a church or
to a lecture or to any place where Christian Scientists gather.
I will not permit a Christian Scientist to come into my home unless
he is a patient. Furthermore, I will not enter the home of a Christian
Scientist unless it is that of a patient to whom I am called.
I will go to my office, and I will stay there from nine in the
morning until four or five o'clock in the afternoon even if no
one come to me. Then I'll go home. I will stay at home until the
next morning in time to get to the office so that no one is going
to know that Joel Goldsmith is in Boston and no one is going to
know that he is a practitioner. If at the end of the year I do
not have a good practice, I am not only going out of the practice,
I am going out of Christian Science, too."
"My life has been told in two Bible passages: 'My kingdom
is not of this world' and 'I have meat to eat that ye know not.'"
Joel had nothing but good to say about his experiences while
in the Christian Science movement.
"I don't know of any more wonderful period of my life
than the sixteen years that I was a Christian Science Journal
practitioner, for I lived morning, noon, and night in the company
of those engaged in that church work, and I don't mind telling
you they were marvelous people."
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Altitude of Prayer (1968 Letters)
Joel explains what true prayer is, how to practice it, and how the understanding of prayer is preparation to receive the grace of God. There is a practical way to make that contact with our Christ-Self and Joel helps the student to realize this. 166 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Art of Meditation
Perhaps one of the best known volumes of Goldsmith's works, The Art of Meditation, brings the student to a clear understanding of the practice of daily meditation and how to achieve God-relization. It is a cornerstone book in the practice of the Infinite Way teachings. 154 pp, 5.25" x 8"
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Art of Spiritual Healing
Together with The Art of Meditation, Living the Infinite Way, and Practicing the Presence, this title is a foundational book of the Infinite Way teachings. The results of Joel's thirty years of practicing spiritual healing. 189 pp, 5.25" x 8"
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Art of Spiritual Healing
"The world needs people who, through devotion to God, are so filled with the Spirit that they can be the instruments through which healings take place. There is not a person reading this book who should not be ready to accept the responsibility of beginning to heal now.... It is God's understanding to which we make ourselves receptive by becoming still." 213 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Art of Spiritual Living (1977 Letters) (Book 7 of 11 book series)
This volume of the new series illustrates to the student how to rise above the vagaries of personal sense and achieve the equanimity that comes from a deep spiritual sense of Oneness. As we practice the principles given in this book we find that we are able to live our lives in increasing harmony and freedom. 236 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Awakening Mystical Consciousness (1970 Letters)
Applying principles of the Infinite Way® teachings to reveal the healing presence of the Holy Spirit in our experience - the key to awakening mystical consciousness. 208pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Beyond Words and Thoughts (1965 Letters)
Ascending from the metaphysics of demonstrating effect to the higher dimension of mystical consciousness, in which life is lived by Grace, the reader is led into the realm of Soul: the earthly material experience melts and the light of Spirit dawns as the stillness and silence of the soul-experience within. 180 pp, 5.5" x 8.5" HC out of print
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Collected Essays of Joel Goldsmith-includes:
Supply; Metaphysical Healing; Meditation; Prayer; Business; Salesmanship; Ye Are the Light"; The Real Teacher; The Seven Steps; Truth; Secret of the 23rd Psalm; Love; Gratitude; I Am the Vine; Deep Silence of My Peace; Fourth Dimension of Life; Contemplative Meditation with Scripture; Easter of Our Lives; A Lesson to Sam
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Consciousness in Transition
The second of three books (Rising in Consciousness and Consciousness Transformed, the other two) introduces the reader to the path of spiritual growth, to laying the foundation necessary for attaining conscious union with God. After the first series of lectures in San Francisco, Joel was asked to go into more depth on what he was to call the "principles" of the Infinite Way® teachings: specific instruction on living, moving, and having one's being in spiritual consciousness. 273 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Consciousness Is What I Am (1969 Letters)
This volume shows the reader that it is not brain, blood and bones that comprise the real man, but rather a realization of consciousness within that reveals the true infinite nature of being. 165pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Consciousness Transformed -1963-64 Hawaii Hotel Talks
This is the deepest of Joel's teachings and the largest volume of his works, comprising over 600 pages. Considered by many to express mysticism at its highest level, these classes unfold mystical experience as living in the realization of God. 623pp, 5.5"x8.5" HC out of print
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Consciousness Unfolding-Expand to Greater Wisdom & Understanding
"God is the consciousness of the individual, and that consciousness is unfolding the infinity of its own Being as person, place, or thing. It is all your consciousness unfolding... God revealing, disclosing Itself as individual consciousness. You are infinite, spiritual consciousness." 269 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Contemplative Life (1961 Letters)
A guide to the attainment of inner peace and joy, the fulfillment of soulful living, Joel explains how to bridge the gap between the compelling activity of daily living to the absolute silence of our inner being, our oneness with God. The human mind can transcend all apparent limitations and become what it is intended to be: a transparency for the free-flowing Spirit. 221 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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Conscious Union with God
Key points of the Infinite Way teachings are brought forth: states and stages of consciousness, meditation, seeking answers within, opening consciousness to Truth, and mysticism – subjects which lead the reader to the inner experience of God, the conscious awareness of spiritual being. 248 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Early Years: 1932-1946 Letters (when Joel was a CS practitioner)
Letters Joel wrote to patients in all parts of the world during the years of his healing ministry as a Christian Science practitioner, demonstrating the spiritual bond that exists between practitioner and patient in the realization of Oneness. "You will feel the love that revealed itself as the healing Truth." 281pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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The Foundation of Mysticism-Spiritual Healing Principles of the Infinite Way
This never-before-published work on the healing principles of the Infinite Way is taken from the 1959 important tape-recorded lectures. He later referred to these tapes as the most significant material available to fully understand the principles and the practice of the Infinite Way®. "God is, and God constitutes this universe, and God constitutes your being, which is perfect." 562pp, 5.5"x 8.5"
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Gift of Love
Simply, yet insightfully, presents the power of love that transforms our lives and our world. A special selection of key meditations on the nature, meaning, and possibilities of love. 78pp, 5.5"x 8.5"
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God Formed Us for His Glory (1978 Letters) (Book 8 in 11 book series)
This is a beautiful portrayal of our true identity. Throughout this book the author outlines pathways to uncover and express the beauty and splendor that is our rightful heritage, setting us free to live joyous and fulfilling lives. Goldsmith points out that the main way to release this true “I” within us is through meditation. 232pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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God the Substance of All Form - Expanding Our Closeness to God
"God is the universal life of all being... All life is eternal, immortal, and omnipresent to those of spiritual vision, and those of spiritual vision are those who have come into agreement that God is the spirit, the substance of all form." 146pp, 5.5"x8.5" HC out of print
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I Stand on Holy Ground (1976 Letters) (p) (Book 6 in 11 book series)
Along with important chapters on the principle of "supply," this book describes what it means to live in the consciousness of Oneness. "When you know yourself, you will know God, for there is no God separate and apart from you." 232pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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The Infinite Way - "In this small volume I have written the spiritual truth as I have gleaned it through over thirty years of study of the major religions and philosophies of all ages... Be assured inner peace will come as one turns to the spiritual consciousness of life, and an outer calm will follow in one's human affairs. The outer world will conform to the inner awareness of Truth. The authority for all of this revelation will be you – as you yourself experience this change within and without." 210pp, 5"x7" |
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Infinite Way (custom leather bound - limited availability)
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Infinite Way Letters, 1954
Letters to students during 1954 that embody the principles of the Infinite Way that bring realization of the God-experience to the individual.
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Invisible Supply (p)
While personal sense claims that our supply comes through material means, it is truly the realization of an unlimited sense of the allness of infinite good that gives us the fuller sense of all that we already possess. When this realization is made we see the manifestation in our human experience. 153pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Journey Back to the Father's House (1979 Letters) (Book 9 of 11 series)
Goldsmith says “Nothing exists for us except what we become conscious of or aware of. Therefore, if we would bring the grace of God into our experience, we must consciously open our consciousness to the truth that 'I and the Father are one.'” The mind of Christ is that Truth received from within our own being and comes after time spent living by the letter of truth and opening ourselves to hear the Word of God through meditation. We have to become adept at meditation, so that we can hear the still small voice. As he says “When God speaks, our problems dissolve….When we hear the voice of God, our entire universe changes.” 240pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Leave Your Nets
"Leave your nets and follow me." – Jesus, the Christ. A call to set forth on that great adventure, the journey of the Spirit. This title in no way suggests we leave our occupations, our families, or other obligations. Joel sets forth the premise that unless and until we leave our dependence on material consciousness in order to develop spiritual consciousness, we will be bound to the limitations of human existence. 174pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Living Between Two Worlds (1967 Letters) (c)
"The kingdom of God concerns itself with our daily life." Live a more fulfilling and spiritual life at home and at work, without neglecting daily responsibilities. A way of life that leads one away from disappointments of the material world to the inner kingdom of peace and contentment. 152pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Living By Grace - The Path to Inner Discovery (Out of Print) *
This is a splendid little volume on a wide variety of topics - everything from supply to healing to the Christ, as well as a message to practitioners. 143pp, 5.25"x7.75" Not Available.
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Living by the Word (1971 Letters) (Book 1 in 11 book series)
The first book in a new eleven volume series of books illuminates what it means to understand scripture - not as mere words, but as the Word, which can be experienced within our very own consciousness. Goldsmith teaches, "A passage of truth, which is really understood, is bread, meat, wine, and water. It is your spiritual good, your spiritual medicine; it is your spiritual rejuvenation, your spiritual rebirthing." 243pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Living the Illumined Life (1972 Letters) (Book 2 in 11 book series)
Living the Illumined Life lights the way to unfold and establish our transcendental consciousness. A highlight of this volume is material on the teacher/student relationship. Also included is the unparalleled chapter, "Spiritual Illumination." 235pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Living the Infinite Way-Life as Oneness with God
The need for individual prayer and meditation in the realization of the God-experience is demonstrated, with step-by-step guidance. This is the third foundational book of the Infinite Way® teachings. "Inner unfoldment is the mission of the Infinite Way®. Its purpose is the revelation of Truth from within our own being and the attainment of conscious awareness of God." 128pp, 5.25"x7.75"
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Living Now (1963 Letters)
A daily guide to living in the presence of God. "Ultimately, we all want to be free of disease, lack and limitation, sin or sinful desires; we all want to be free of material law. The only hope we have for immortality and eternality, or even for living out a normal span in good health, is to make the transition to where we are living not by bread alone, but by every word of God that permeates our consciousness." 251pp, 5.5"x8.5" HC Out of Print
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Man Was Not Born to Cry (1962 Letters)
"The purpose of man is to show forth the nature of God. Man originally was intended to be the instrument through which, or as which, God lives on earth. Man is the great glory of God... not born to cry!" 222pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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The Master Speaks
A basic text for those interested in Christian mysticism. Founded on the teachings of the Master, Christ Jesus, this book is an invaluable aid in teaching the principles of spiritual living and spiritual healing. These principles are set forth with clarity and authority by Joel S. Goldsmith. 323pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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A Message for the Ages-(1975 Letters) (Book 5 of 11 book series)
This volume explores the Infinite Way® principles, including that of protective work. Of special interest is the section on teaching the Infinite Way® message that will appeal to all students of Joel Goldsmith's spiritual insights. 220 pp, 5.5" x 8.5"
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The Mystical I (1966 Letters) (p)
Throughout this book readers are shown how to attain the real experience of the "I", our Christ-Self, that which fulfills us. Goldsmith writes “…when you open the door of your consciousness and admit I, you will find the Presence – at first slowly and gradually, because none of us could take it all in one leap – but you will find that Presence flows out from you in the forms necessary to your daily experience.”222pp, 5"x7"
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Our Spiritual Resources (1960 Letters) (p) Back in Print!
In the book, “Our Spiritual Resources,” readers will find a rich discourse on the spiritual principles of Joel Goldsmith. His is a message about the living truths that infuse all aspects of existence but lay hidden from view. In this book of discovery, the author lays out life principles that have the power to transform daily existence—“ The truth of the matter is that there is nothing more practical, progressive, or prosperous than a life lived in accordance with the Spirit.” Mr. Goldsmith points out that “There is no sickness in the entire kingdom of God because the kingdom of God is a kingdom of immortality, eternality, life and love” and “The only place there can be any sickness is in the mind of man.” This book is devoted to explaining how to free our minds of these sicknesses we entertain and how to enter into our full stature as a child of God. 256pp, 5"x7"
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Parenthesis in Eternity-Living the Mystical Life
Joel felt this book represented the "Bible" of his spiritual unfoldment. "God is infinite; truth is infinite. It is for us to rise into that Infinity, explore new avenues of truth, open new areas of our consciousness because all this truth is our consciousness, our very own!" 378pp, 5.25"x8"
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Practicing the Presence
Here is the fourth foundational book of the Infinite Way teachings. "...there is only one missing link in this entire chain of harmonious living. That is the practice of the presence of God—consciously, daily and hourly, abiding in some great spiritual truth of scripture..." 152pp, 5.25"x8"
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Realization of Oneness-The Practice of Spiritual Healing (1964 Letters)
Within us all, there lies a driving force residing in the heart that unknowingly influences our every decision and action. If we were to follow this force, each decision would be effortless and stress free, but the reality can be quite the opposite. To live as one with our inner source without any fear is the answer. 236pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Rising In Consciousness-The San Francisco Lecture Series (1948)
Mystical consciousness is not reserved for a select few. By rising above personal sense, the mystical consciousness of Oneness may be attained by all. After publishing The Infinite Way® and giving Bible classes in the late 1940's, Joel was invited to San Francisco to give his first classes in the Infinite Way® teachings. The material in Rising in Consciousness presents Joel's lectures in their entirety. 315pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Seek Ye First (1973 Letters) (Book 3 in 11 book series)
This third volume comprised of twelve monthly letters presents a wealth of wisdom and inspiration that will guide the reader to the realization of our foremost task in life: to become aware of God’s presence within. Chapters cover such subjects as: "Steps to Union with God," "Illumination through Meditation," "We Cannot Solve a Problem on the Level of the Problem," and "Access to the Kingdom of God." 234pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Showing Forth the Presence of God (1980 Letters) (10 of 11 book series)
The focus of this book is at the heart of the message of Joel Goldsmith — that within each of us dwells a living and immediate presence, the spirit of God, which is as close to us as our breathing. The author unfolds insightful and hands-on instruction on how to discover this presence which lies within each of us, and how this awareness will generate a new aliveness and freedom in our day to day affairs. 240pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Spiritual Discernment: the Healing Consciousness (1974 Letters) (Book 4 in 11 book series) 234pp, 5.5"x8.5"
"In the very moment we have decided not to judge by appeareances, we have set something within us in the direction of the development of the Soul-faculty of spiritual discernment. ...we must wait on God; must wait for spiritual discernment to reveal [a person] to us as he is."
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Spiritual Healing-Selections from Writings of Joel Goldsmith Out of Print
Out-of-print compilation of excerpts from Beyond Words and Thoughts, Conscious Union with God, Consciousness Unfolding, The Contemplative Life, God The Substance of All Form, Leave Your Nets, Living Now, Man Was Not Born to Cry, The Master Speaks, and Realization of Oneness. 281pp, 5.5"x8.5" Out of Print
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Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture
"Literal interpretation of scripture ... has brought about the belief of separation between God and you, making the sense of duality, which is responsible for every sin, disease and discord on earth. The consciousness of the oneness of God and you restores the lost Truth of all Scripture, re-establishes health, harmony, completeness and thereby ends discord and limitation." 221pp, 5"x7"
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Spiritual Power of Truth 294pp, 5.5"x8.5"
All people eventually come face-to-face with their inner Truth at some point in life. As they grow and begin to observe the world around them, the desires arise for a certain lifestyle or material luxury that tends to distort the perception of this inner truth, blinding them to the reality of their soul. ...There is a greater power to overcome this dilemma.
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The Only Freedom (1981 Letters) (Book 11 in 11 book series)
"Wherever there is a realization of God, man is given his freedom, not only spiritual freedom, but a spiritual freedom which becomes evident as physical, mental, moral and financial freedom." 208pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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Thunder of Silence
"Insofar as I have observed from my study of the spiritual literature of the world," said Joel Goldsmith, "the truth stated in this book has never been fully revealed although it constitutes the absolute basis for spiritual living." 204pp, 5.25"x8"
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World is New
"The world is new to every soul when Christ has entered into it." Recognizing our spiritual identity as the Christ, or God appearing individually, creates the eternal resurrection and renewal of life." 266pp, 5.5"x8.5"
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The Spiritual Journey of Joel S. Goldsmith, by Lorraine Sinkler
The full and authentic story of Joel Goldsmith. Much of the book is in his own words made available to Lorraine in conversations, letters, and tape recordings. 206pp, 5.5"x8"
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