Joel gave several beautiful classes on world work and on topics related to world work. Since Joel’s recordings are still under copy protection, we have obtained permission to post these recordings for your online or telephone listening. Each recording will be available for listening at any time for one month after it is posted. There is a list of previously posted recordings at the bottom of this page.
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The recording for this month is Recording 243B, from the 1959 Maui Advanced Work, titled “The New Life by Grace.” To our knowledge, this class was not used as source material for any book.
Preview of the Class
We have learned that when individual consciousness changes, individual problems are resolved. Can this principle operate on a wider scale? In this lesson, Joel teaches that the evil in human consciousness is not power and cannot be destroyed with power. But true prayer, including forgiveness and praying for the enemy, is the way to overcome evil and bring peace to the world.
Reminding us that Inner stillness gives the grace of God an opportunity to flow into the world and function—not to destroy the enemy, but to destroy the evil in his consciousness—Joel says that every individual who knows this truth has the responsibility to practice it. The world will only be saved by grace, but the grace of God functions in and through human consciousness.
Joel asks students to make every possible effort to change from being the man of earth to being the man who has his being in Christ. He counsels us to see that overcoming does not happen through personal power, but through prayer, forgiveness, and gentleness; by the power of God that comes to you in the stillness. He encourages a daily program of forgiveness and prayer for others, so that we can participate in the “round-the-world program” of bringing about the dissolution of evil in human consciousness, not by might or power, but by the realization that the grace of God dissolves everything unlike itself.
March 1-31, 2024
Recording 495A: 1962 London Special Class
“Nature of Spiritual Power”
February 1-29, 2024
Recording 387B: 1961 Waikiki Infinite Way Center
“Attaining the Light That Dispels Darkness”
January 1-31, 2024
Recording 356A: 1960 England Open Class
“Solving World’s Problems”
This class is one of three used as source material for Chapter 10, “The Government Is on His Shoulders,” in Our Spiritual Resources.
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