Joel gave several beautiful classes on world work and 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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You can listen to this recording from the Sanctuary page. To listen by telephone, call 1-641-715-3900 and enter 828754#.
This month’s recording, 400B, “The Essence of The Infinite Way, continued,” is from the 1961 San Diego Special Class. It was used as source material for Chapter 12, “Infinite Way Principles and World Affairs,” in Realization of Oneness.
Preview of the Class
In the first part of this class, Joel reaffirms that meditation is the secret to bringing harmony into our experience, and he discusses several steps we can take to prepare ourselves to receive spiritual guidance during meditation. Then he answers three intriguing questions. One is about how to interpret the Holocaust, another about our duty regarding the “present world crisis,” and the third about a new world religion that would be practiced in the fourth dimension. In answering these questions, Joel illuminates the meaning of truly “being close to God” and explains how we can make God’s presence a living reality. He also gives us a new way to interpret the so-called “evils” of the world:
“You are not witnessing any evils on earth today. You are witnessing the breaking up of the evils that have been here for a century or more. … If these conditions were merely breaking up because of human reasons, they wouldn’t be on quite the international basis that they are. … What is taking place in this world today is because of a spiritual activity. Behind what appears to be the wars and rumors of wars that are taking place in this world, there is really a spiritual activity breaking the hard crusts of human greed, human lust, human ambition, human pride, and restoring the spiritual sonship of the entire world of mankind.”
The class is a real inspiration to continue doing world work to restore the awareness of spiritual sonship to the entire world.
The recording will be available for listening through July 31, 2026.
June 1-30, 2026
Recording 323A: 1960 Chicago Open Class
“The Way”
May 1-31, 2026
Recording 341A: 1960 Holland Open Class
“Understanding God and Prayer”
April 1-30, 2026
Recording 55B: 1953 Second New York Practitioner Class
“Isaiah’s Nature and Fulfillment of Christ”
March 1-31, 2026
Recording 506A: 1962 Cape Town Class
“Past and Present Civilizations”
February 1-28, 2026
Recording 8804: 1956 Holland Closed Class
“The Word Made Flesh”
January 1-31, 2026
Recording 507B: 1962-63 Princess Kaiulani Open Class
“1963 New Year’s Message”
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