Hawaii Hotel Talk March 3, 1963

Original Unedited Hawaii Hotel Talk, Corrected From Edited Consciousness Transformed

March 3, 1963 The Halekulani Hotel Honolulu, Hawaii

By now you have discovered how difficult it is to make the transition from finding your health in the body to finding your health in divine sonship, or to making the transition from finding your supply in currency and investments to finding your supply in your spiritual sonship, in your relationship to God. You know now how difficult it is to make the transition from finding your good in the world to finding your good in God – in your divine sonship. In fact it is so difficult that the Master said that, “The way is straight and narrow, and few there be that enter.”

We were born into mortal or human consciousness. Our parents had nothing in mind when we were conceived but human conception, and, after we were born, they expected us to respond to material laws. But now we are in the process of dying out of that consciousness and being reborn into another Consciousness. In this new birth or new Consciousness, we find ourselves equal, and that means equal in the sight of God, equal in the sight of each other. There is no black or no white, there is no high or no low, there is no large or no small, there is no young or no old, there is no rich or no poor. We are all equally spiritual offspring, and we are all equal in our joint sonship to all of the heavenly riches. “Son, thou art ever with Me, and all that I have is thine.” We do not earn our money by might or by power. There is no such thing as earning our supply or being worthy of it. We inherit it – it is ours by divine right or our sonship.

In this new birth we have to overcome the belief that God rewards goodness and that God punishes our natural mistakes. This is difficult. For years people have carried burdens of guilt and this makes it difficult to accept the fact that our good is dependent only on our relationship to God, and that this relationship exists whether we have been good or bad. No crime on the calendar could break that relationship, because the relationship is oneness. There are not two – there is only one. “I and my Father are one. Son, thou art ever with me and all that I  have is thine.” This does not mean if, and, or but. It means straight out that our relationship to God is oneness. “All that the Father is I am. All that the Father hath is mine.”

We have now established in our consciousness our true relationship to God. Then, as a claim arises, whether it is one of disease, false appetite, sin or lack, your answer is, “My harmony is dependent only on my relationship to my Source – God. The harmony of my body, the harmony of my purse, the harmony of my good is dependent on my relationship to God, and therefore it is mine by grace.” This is the Truth which, if you know it, will make you free; but you must actually know it to the point of conviction that your good in an amount up to infinity is yours because of your relationship to God. Now you can say, “Ah, no. This sickness is a superstition, it is a state of mind. Why? Because my health and harmony is not found in my body but in God. I of myself am nothing. But because of my oneness with the Father, all that the Father is I am, and all that the Father hath is mine by right of relationship.”

So it is that, regardless of what temptation comes to you, you can answer back: “No, I find my good in my relationship to God, in my divine sonship. My health is not in my body but in my sonship. My intelligence is not in my brain but in my sonship. My companionship is not in men and women but in my divine sonship.” In fact you are companioning with everyone around the world who is recognizing his sonship. “I find my companionship in God by virtue of my relationship to God. No matter how much alone I seem to be, this fills me with companionship. I am inwardly companioned. That is why I cannot feel a loss or a void, because it is not there, I and my Father are one.”

This will change your whole metaphysical approach to living your life. You will not be living your life by right thinking or by treatment. You will be enjoying the harmony of your being by the right of divine sonship, and you will approach every claim from that standpoint, “I do not have to do anything after I have recognized my divine sonship. I take no thought for externalized living. I now allow the hidden manna to come into expression.” Think how many times the words “hidden manna” are in the writings and recordings. What does hidden manna mean? It means the infinity of good which I cannot hear, see, taste, touch or smell, but which is stored up in me and which I know is there because of my divine sonship.

Because of the world’s mesmerism, I may seem to be lacking something. That can happen to anyone as a temptation; but never blame a temporary sense of lack of demonstration on God, or on your neighbor, or on someone in the external world. Whatever we are, we are because of our present state of consciousness, and when a lack of something manifests, it is up to us not to place the blame out in the world. Get within and realize our own inability to grasp that “the whole world is mine by virtue of my sonship.” World mesmerism would bring these claims to us, and so instead of going back to some old metaphysical way to get out of them, stop believing in two powers and recognize, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Son, thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine by virtue, not of my own worthiness, but of divine sonship.” To claim that some are better than others is foolishness. The Truth is that we are equal, equally children of God. God is no respecter of persons. In the Consciousness of God, the good is equal to the bad, the rich is equal to the poor, the old is equal to the young.

No fault ever lies with God, but in the human teachings that do not allow us to hold to a single principle of, “I and my Father are one, and all that the Father hath is mine.” Actually Israel, or God’s anointed, are all those who know the Truth. Israel means the children of God, and the children of God can be of any race or religion when they come to the realization of, “I and my Father are one.” Then we are all brethren.

To claim your good without the understanding that your good is your good only because of a divine relationship, would be feeding the ego and the ego must not be fed. But by virtue of the fact that “God is Spirit and I am Spirit, then the perfection of God is the perfection of my individual being. Therefore, I find my good in my spiritual relationship to God, or I find my good in my divine sonship.” Then, when anything tempts me, I can withdraw my gaze from this world and say, “No, in here closer than breathing, is my contact with infinity, with eternality, with immortality. I am as young as God, but I am also as old as God. All the qualities and all the quantities of God are mine by right of sonship, by the divine right of heir.” We are all equally offspring of God and we do not divide up the heavenly good among us. We all inherit all that the Father hath. God is Spirit and cannot be divided up or cut up into pieces.

The allness of God is Omnipresence. Never forget that the allness of God is Omnipresence. “Where I am, thou art. Where thou art, I am.” There must be an inner spiritual intuition that says to you, “The place whereon I stand is holy ground because I and my Father are one, not two.” This is Omnipresence carried to the degree of infinity. Just think what this does to you in the nature of your human relationships. No longer can you look to man whose breath is in his nostrils. No longer can you blame man whose breath is in his nostrils. “I shall not fear what mortal man can do to me.” When dare I make a statement like that? When I am standing in my rightful relationship to God – and only then – can I make this statement, that “None of the weapons that are formed against me shall prosper.” Why? Because of my divine sonship. Only then can I say, “I shall not fear what mortal man can do to me, for I find my good in my heirship, in my sonship.”

You see then how this permits you to take your gaze from the world and live more in within-ness, to live more periods of your life in inner meditation or contemplation because, as the world’s problems touch you, you need the remembrance, “No man in the world gives to me; no man in the world takes from me, because of sonship. I am living only in my relationship to God. I am not living in or for the world. I am in God, and God is in me, for we are one. This is my relationship to God, and all because of sonship. Son, thou art ever with me.

And remember that the son is never somebody separate and apart from God. The son is always one with the Father and includes all that the Father has. There is no process of God giving or God withholding. “All that God is I am,” in oneness.

Why should you take no thought for your life? Why should you take no thought for what you shall eat, what you shall drink, or how you shall be clothed? There is only one reason, because of your relationship to God, your relationship of sonship. You could put it another way, thinking of it from the Christian way. You could say, “I am heir to all of the heavenly riches,” but Christhood really means Sonship. “Because of my sonship I am heir to all of the heavenly riches.” Or, “Because of my Christhood, all of the heavenly riches are mine.” You will notice in healing work that, regardless of all the Truths you may know, you are not going to do any healing work unless you can come to the point where you can stop voicing Truth and start to listen for Truth. Then you realize exactly what I am speaking of. Yes, when it comes to the healing work, Joel has to be quiet and let It have Its way. Then this Christhood, which is “closer than breathing,” does the same work that the Christ did two thousand years ago. It heals, It feeds, It raises.

Know this, that the world is always tempting you to a belief in the absence of something. There is always something absent from us, but remember that the antidote is shutting out that appearance, and realizing that nothing is absent from your Consciousness because of your relationship with God. “I and my Father are one.” “Thou seeth me thou seeth the Father that sent me.” I was never born and I will never die. How do I know this? The son of God is an eternal relationship, “Call no man on earth your Father.” You have never been born. The period of birth was really only when you became visible on this plane. Likewise, the period of death is only when we become invisible on this plane. This point of sonship, rightly understood, makes you completely free of the world because all is yours by right of sonship. And living in this Consciousness is what produces harmony – and it means living in it. “The government is on His shoulders.” My part is to know this Truth. We have been cheated for two-thousand years, but now it is restored to us. If, at this moment, there is a claim of lack or limitation in any form, realize right here today in this instant: “it is impossible.” That which appears to be absent is really mine here and now because of sonship. “All that the Father hath is mine.”

Work with this during the coming weeks, going back over the Sunday notes and see how this has gradually been evolving up to the unfoldment of today. And remember that you have to make a practice of living this. “My good is mine because of divine sonship. I find my health and my supply and my harmony and my opportunities in divine sonship, and all because of my relationship with the one source. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, and all that the Father hath is mine.” This is a transition from the man of earth to that man who has his being in Christ, who finds his good in his Christhood as heir of God. This will also show you the necessity of not living in the past and not living in the future, because living in either the past or the future is living in humanhood. Recognize that, “Here and now I find my good in my Christhood.” The human mind cannot grasp this. It is something that must be revealed to you through intuition. There is an intuitive process. Then you will understand why, in so much of our work, you find me bringing to light that “I will never leave you nor forsake you – I, this divine Christhood.” In other words, my relationship to God was established in the beginning and it is mine by divine right.

Then what about punishment? Punishment is the very moment when you leave the relationship of divine sonship. The moment you leave divine sonship, you have me and mine, you and yours. Try to think of living in this atmosphere, in the relationship of your Christhood. But no matter how you try to live in this relationship, temptations will come; they can come at any period of your spiritual progress. But when they come, we must be alert and be able to say, “Get thee behind me, Satan. This is an appearance, not a fact. My good is in my sonship.”

Again I must caution you. This Truth must be held as something secret as well as something sacred, because if you voice it, you spill it. The only time you are ever called upon to voice it is when you find someone far enough along on the path. Then you can share it, but only then can you share it. Do not forget that spiritual Truth should not be placed before the human mind. Keep it secret, keep it sacred, and voice it only when you are with someone whom you know will receive it in the same secretness and sacredness.

Joel S. Goldsmith