"When a person recognizes God as infinite, omnipresent Life and then
realizes that all the evil that comes to his eyes and ears is only the
projection of the belief in two powers and is not a person or a
condition, his fears drop away. He becomes quiet inside, and in that
stillness something takes place which cannot be described. He cannot see
what it is, hear, taste, touch, or smell it. He merely knows that he is
in a state of calm. That calm is the presence of the transcendental
Something that dissolves the erroneous pictures. It does not heal
disease: there is none. It does not reform sinners: there are none. It
dissolves the belief in good and evil, and when that is dissolved the
person is no longer seeing “through a glass darkly.”
He is seeing
face to face. God governs, maintains, and sustains Its own creation. God
is my life, my mind, my soul, and my being, and the only law operating
in, through, and as my consciousness.
I need not fear what mortal
man or carnal mind can do to me. I need not fear what infection or
heredity can do. I need not fear any material or mental powers for the
omnipresence of God is my robe. Into this, nothing can enter to destroy
or disturb: no universal belief, no activity of the carnal mind, nothing
of any nature that the world calls destructive. The omnipresence of God
reveals the nothingness of the carnal mind, of all its activities and
whatever its so-called history.
The carnal mind does not operate as
a person or thing: it operates only as a belief in two powers. I do not
accept that belief because I accept God as the one Power.
Did God
make the carnal mind? No, the carnal mind and all its activities are
nothing. They are this universal human mind arising out of the belief of
good and evil, a belief which has no real existence. In reality, there
is no mind to be called “carnal.”
Did God create any law, any
being, any power, or anything anywhere any time that could destroy Its
creation? No, the infinity of God eliminates all possibility of God ever
having created anything destructive to Itself, and there is no other
creator or creative principle."
~J. S. Goldsmith:
Consciousness is What I Am.
Contemplative Meditation Lifts Consciousness;
Kindle location 1898-1918
