Beyond Words and Thoughts

Beyond Words and Thoughts is based on classes that Joel Goldsmith gave after he had received the call from within to lift students out of the metaphysical level of consciousness into the mystical. In the book, he explains that in the metaphysical state of awareness, we use the mind to demonstrate health, wealth, and other material things, or try to use God to overcome evil. But when we attain the mystical consciousness, he says, we relax in the Presence of an inner Grace and let It function. We live without words or thoughts, above material law.Beyond Words and Thoughts sets forth the way that leads to this transition to the mystical consciousness. It shows the seeker how to leave the maze and confusion of words and thoughts and enter into the mystical Silence from which all that is proceeds. In that stillness and Silence, we can hear the still small voice and discover the deepest secrets of life. There the earth of problems melts, and the light of Spirit dawns. This is a book for those who want that one great Experience, which externalizes as a fulfilled life.Originally Published: 1969 Beyond Words and Thoughts is based on classes that Joel Goldsmith gave after he had received the call from within to lift students out of the metaphysical level of consciousness into the mystical. In the book, he explains that in the metaphysical state of awareness, we use the mind to demonstrate health, wealth, and other material things, or try to use God to overcome evil. But when we attain the mystical consciousness, he says, we relax in the Presence of an inner Grace and let It function. We live without words or thoughts, above material law. Beyond Words and Thoughts sets forth the way that leads to this transition to the mystical consciousness. It shows the seeker how to leave the maze and confusion of words and thoughts and enter into the mystical Silence from which all that is proceeds. In that stillness and Silence, we can hear the still small voice and discover the deepest secrets of life. There the earth of problems melts, and the light of Spirit dawns. This is a book for those who want that one great Experience, which externalizes as a fulfilled life. Work honestly with everything you can find out about the nature of God and the nature of error because you will then begin to understand the nature of prayer. Once you understand the nature of God, you stop trying to reach out to God with your mind. It keeps you from praying the traditional prayer of begging and beseeching God. Prayer is then no longer words or thoughts; prayer is no longer asking God to do something or expecting something of God; prayer now has a whole new meaning. It is a state of silence in which you become receptive to the word of God. The mind is still; the spiritual faculty is alert; and in the silence the grace of God is received. This is prayer.

As long as you can abide in an inner stillness, do not be concerned whether you have words or thoughts because it might well be that you have gone beyond that place of needing, words and thoughts. Words and thoughts are part of the activity of the mind, and what we are trying to do is to rise above the activity of the mind into Grace.

Toward the experience Building a consciousness of grace "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" Truth unveiled Rising to mystical consciousness in prayer and treatment Measuring spiritual progress World work for all Infinite Way students The way of grace Beyond the pairs of opposites to being Incorporeality : God, man, and universe "His rain falls" God revealing Himself as Christ on earth. "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 the soul: the earth of material experience melts and the light of Spirit dawns as stillness and silence of the soul-experience within"--Publisher's description