ESSENTIAL CHAPTERS OF THE INFINITE WAY TEACHING (The New Horizon) by Joel S. Goldsmith Compiled by Contemplative Pathways
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FOREWORD In order to build a consciousness of truth, all Infinite Way students should know the following passages as well as they know their own names: * Chapter Title Source Book 1. The New Horizon The Infinite Way 2. God Is One Living the Infinite Way 3. Protection The 1955 Infinite Way Letters 4. Break the Fetters That Bind You 5. Contemplation Develops the Beholder The 1958 Infinite Way Letters The Contemplative Life 6. Introduction Practicing the Presence 7. Love Thy Neighbor Practicing the Presence 8. The Relationship of Oneness The Art of Spiritual Healing 9. No And! Realization of Oneness *From The Contemplative Life, Chapter 10, p. 175. The itemized chapters above were recommended by Joel S. Goldsmith as essential references in studying The Infinite Way teaching. The chapter titled No And was a later addition to the original listing found in The Contemplative Life.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Source Books and Publishers Book Title Publisher The Infinite Way DeVorss & Company (1990) Living the Infinite Way HarperCollins Publishers (1961) The 1955 Infinite Way Letters L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd. (1977) The 1958 Infinite Way Letters L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd. (1977) The Contemplative Life Citadel Press / Carol Publishing Group (1994) Practicing the Presence HarperCollins Publishers (1991) The Art of Spiritual Healing HarperCollins Publishers (1992) Realization of Oneness Photograph of Joel S. Goldsmith Citadel Press / Lyle Stuart Inc. (1967) Acropolis Books, Inc. at http://www.acropolisbooks.com/ Contemplative Pathways Visit us at: http://contemplatingtruth.wordpress.com/
Chapter 1 The New Horizon ( The New Horizon is a chapter from the book The Infinite Way.) The sense which presents pictures of discord and inharmony, disease and death, is the universal mesmerism which produces the entire dream of human existence. It must be understood that there is no more reality to harmonious human existence than to discordant world conditions. It must be realized that the entire human scene is mesmeric suggestion, and we must rise above the desire for even good human conditions. Understand fully that suggestion, belief, or hypnotism is the substance, or fabric, of the whole mortal universe and that human conditions of both good and evil are dream pictures having no reality or permanence. Be willing for the harmonious as well as the inharmonious conditions of mortal existence to disappear from your experience in order that reality may be known and enjoyed and lived. Above this sense-life, there is a universe of Spirit governed by Love, peopled with children of God living in the household or temple of Truth. This world is real and permanent: Its substance is eternal Consciousness. In it there is no awareness of discords or even of temporary and material good. The first glimpse of Reality of the Soul-realm comes with the recognition and realization of the fact that all temporal conditions and experiences are products of self-hypnotism. With the realization that the entire human scene its good as well as its evil is illusion, come the first glimpse and taste of the world of God s creation and of the sons of God who inhabit the spiritual kingdom. Essential Chapters of The Infinite Way Teaching 1
APPENDIX List of Infinite Way Book Titles 1954 Letters, The 1955 Letters, The 1956 Letters, The 1957 Letters, The 1958 Letters, The 1959 Letters, The Altitude of Prayer, The Art of Meditation, The Art of Spiritual Healing, The Art of Spiritual Living, The Awakening Mystical Consciousness Beyond Words and Thoughts Collected Essays of Joel S. Goldsmith Conscious Union with God Consciousness in Transition (Metaphysical Notes) Consciousness Is What I Am Consciousness Transformed (The 1963-1964 Hawaii Hotel Talks) Consciousness Unfolding Contemplative Life, The Foundation of Mysticism, The (Spiritual Healing Principles of The Infinite Way) Gift of Love, The God Formed Us for His Glory God, the Substance of All Form Heart of Mysticism, The (Infinite Way Letters 1955-1959) I Stand on Holy Ground Infinite Way, The 4 Essential Chapters of The Infinite Way Teaching
Appendix - List of Infinite Way Book Titles (Continued) Invisible Supply Joel Goldsmith Reader, The Journey Back to the Father's House, The Leave Your Nets Letters, The (1932-1946) [reprinted as The Early Years ] Living Between Two Worlds Living By Grace Living by the Word Living Now Living the Illumined Life Living The Infinite Way Man Was Not Born to Cry Master Speaks, The Message for the Ages, A Mystical I, The Only Freedom, The Our Spiritual Resources Parenthesis in Eternity, A Practicing the Presence Realization of Oneness Rising in Consciousness (The San Francisco Lecture Series) Seek Ye First Showing Forth the Presence of God Spiritual Discernment: The Healing Consciousness Spiritual Healing (Selections from the Writings of Joel Goldsmith) Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture Spiritual Journey of Joel S. Goldsmith, The Spiritual Power of Truth, The Thunder of Silence, The World Is New, The Essential Chapters of The Infinite Way Teaching 5