There must come a rest from the activity of the mind: talking thought for our life, fearing for our life, constantly knowing the truth in order to avoid some experience. There must come a Sabbath, and in this Sabbath we live by Grace, because then we do not know the truth, but Truth reveals Itself to us, and we become the Truth.
It is not an activity of the mind; it is Soul revealing itself.
When you reach that place where , instead of searching for a truth, feverishly reading or studying to latch onto some truth, you can relax and rest in the Truth---without taking thought, without speaking or thinking---you can be a state of awareness,
and then you understand the meaning of
"Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Matthew 4:4
You will discover that every word, every feeling, every emotion, and every thought that comes to you from the deep Withinness of you is what you now live by.
The Spirit within guides, It directs, It sustains, It protects, It goes before you to "make the crooked places straight."
Matthew 6:25
Excerpt from:
Beyond Words and Thoughts
Joel Goldsmith
Chapter 4 "Truth Unveiled"
Goldsmith's Understanding of
Transfiguration and Translation
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JESUS' EXPERIENCE
ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION
In Jesus' statement, "He that seeth me seeth him that sent me" (John 12:45)
he revealed that he had attained the goal of I AM. "'I am the way' ---thou seest me, thou seeest God, for I and God are one." And there is an experience in which he proved this:
he took three disciples to what is called the Mount of Transfiguration,which again is high consciousness,
and he revealed to them the Hebrew prophets who were supposed to be dead.
But, to his enlightened sense, they were not dead, and he proved to his disciples that they were alive, and that they were with them there in form. Whether he translated them into visible form or whether he translated himself and the disciples into invisible form makes no difference because it is the same experience. He translated: he demonstrated to his disciples the truth he later proved: "I lay down my life, that I might take it again"----I can walk into the invisible realm and I an walk not again, for I am Spirit, I am the way."
Because of Jesus' experience on the Mount of Transfiguration, I understand now that crucifixion was not necessary for him, and that he could have avoided it. Enoch was translated without knowing death; Elijah was translated without knowing dearth; Isaiah, also, may have been translated. Therefore, it was shown to me through Jesus' experience on the Mount of Transfiguration that he could have been translated without knowing death, but when he became aware of the Betrayal, the Trial, and the threatened Crucifixion, he chose to accept corporeal death in order to reveal to his disciples that death is not an experience, but an illusory sense that must be understood and seen through.
Death is not a condition that a person actually goes through. There is no death, no one has ever died. God has no pleasure in our dying. Death is an experience only of corporeal sense, the sense that testifies that we are physical, mortal, finite, but death itself is never an experience of our true being.
By permitting himself to experience corporeal death, Jesus revealed that there is no death, and he revealed himself in what appeared to be the same corporeal form with all its wounds. Then having served this purpose, he had no other function here on earth. His continued presence would only have been an embarrassment to the disciples, to Rome, and probably to himself.
Jesus ascended out of corporeal form: he was translated. This can be interpreted to mean that he rose beyond the mind; he rose above his own mind because it is only in the mind that the corporeal sense can be entertained, not in the spiritual faculties.
In our Soul-faculties, we are Spirit; we see each other spiritually,whether we are here on this plane, or whether we are looking at those who have gone to another plane, or to those who are not yet born.
Excerpt from:
Beyond Words and Thoughts
Joel Goldsmith
Chapter 4 "Truth Unveiled"
ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION
In Jesus' statement, "He that seeth me seeth him that sent me" (John 12:45)
he revealed that he had attained the goal of I AM. "'I am the way' ---thou seest me, thou seeest God, for I and God are one." And there is an experience in which he proved this:
he took three disciples to what is called the Mount of Transfiguration,which again is high consciousness,
and he revealed to them the Hebrew prophets who were supposed to be dead.
But, to his enlightened sense, they were not dead, and he proved to his disciples that they were alive, and that they were with them there in form. Whether he translated them into visible form or whether he translated himself and the disciples into invisible form makes no difference because it is the same experience. He translated: he demonstrated to his disciples the truth he later proved: "I lay down my life, that I might take it again"----I can walk into the invisible realm and I an walk not again, for I am Spirit, I am the way."
Because of Jesus' experience on the Mount of Transfiguration, I understand now that crucifixion was not necessary for him, and that he could have avoided it. Enoch was translated without knowing death; Elijah was translated without knowing dearth; Isaiah, also, may have been translated. Therefore, it was shown to me through Jesus' experience on the Mount of Transfiguration that he could have been translated without knowing death, but when he became aware of the Betrayal, the Trial, and the threatened Crucifixion, he chose to accept corporeal death in order to reveal to his disciples that death is not an experience, but an illusory sense that must be understood and seen through.
Death is not a condition that a person actually goes through. There is no death, no one has ever died. God has no pleasure in our dying. Death is an experience only of corporeal sense, the sense that testifies that we are physical, mortal, finite, but death itself is never an experience of our true being.
By permitting himself to experience corporeal death, Jesus revealed that there is no death, and he revealed himself in what appeared to be the same corporeal form with all its wounds. Then having served this purpose, he had no other function here on earth. His continued presence would only have been an embarrassment to the disciples, to Rome, and probably to himself.
Jesus ascended out of corporeal form: he was translated. This can be interpreted to mean that he rose beyond the mind; he rose above his own mind because it is only in the mind that the corporeal sense can be entertained, not in the spiritual faculties.
In our Soul-faculties, we are Spirit; we see each other spiritually,whether we are here on this plane, or whether we are looking at those who have gone to another plane, or to those who are not yet born.
Excerpt from:
Beyond Words and Thoughts
Joel Goldsmith
Chapter 4 "Truth Unveiled"
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