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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This month’s recording, 137B, “The Principles of ‘As’ and ‘Is,’ continued,” is from the 1956 Melbourne Class. It was used as source material for Chapter 9, “Freedom in God,” in Living by Grace.
Preview of the Class
In this class, Joel is introducing world work to students in Melbourne, Australia, so it provides a great review of world work and how we should approach it. After some introductory comments, Joel emphasizes the premise that “since you are already the fullness and completeness of God made manifest, in one way or another you must acknowledge this, and you must begin to open out so that the flow of God can go through you to this world that does not yet know the truth.”
After expanding on that premise, he speaks of his goal: “Now then, my mission is to ask this of you—three periods of meditation every day, not for yourself; … for the world.” He explains that we have an opportunity the world has not had before, because we know the secret: where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, freedom, health, wholeness, supply, peace, joy, and dominion. So our work is not to “treat” the world or attempt to change particular conditions, but to attain the consciousness of God’s presence and thereby admit the Christ into human consciousness.
Joel clearly describes the three meditations, explaining that with each one, we are admitting the Christ into human consciousness solely for the benefit of the world—not for ourselves, our families, friends, students, or patients. He says, “Please remember, you and I, as students of The Infinite Way, owe a debt to this world, a debt that we can only repay if we can bring the Spirit of the Lord God almighty into its consciousness. No other way.”
Joel emphasizes that we must abide in stillness, quietness, and confidence, so that spiritual power can have an outlet through us and be the activity of Grace that reveals spiritual harmony where a very materialistic world seems to be. Therefore, meditation is essential because in meditation, we let physical and mental powers rest. In that stillness, we allow ourselves to become instruments through which spiritual power can operate.
The recording will be available for listening through September 30, 2026.
August 1-31, 2026
Recording 420B: 1961 London Closed Class
“The Nature of Spiritual Power”
July 1-31, 2026
Recording 400B: 1961 San Diego Special Class
“The Essence of The Infinite Way, continued”
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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