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, 219B, “The Still Small Voice Is the Only Power, Part Two,” is from the 1958 New York Closed Class. It is one of six recordings used as source material for Chapter 16, “That Ye May Be the Children of Your Father,” in The Thunder of Silence.
Preview of the Class
Joel begins by reminding us that what we ordinarily see as a person or condition is really just a mental concept formed in our own mind, and that it has no reality. Once we recognize this, we stop judging by appearances and practice nonreaction. Recognizing that the only error there is is in our minds, we begin to judge with spiritual vision.
Then Joel takes this idea from individual experience to awareness of the world. He asks Infinite Way students to embrace the entire world in their consciousness without embracing its fears and erroneous beliefs. Fear, he says, is atheism. No one can fear who has realized God because that realization assures you that there is nothing to fear.
The world seems to face many problems, but Joel says that regardless of the appearance—disease, lack, storms, wars, or bombs —there is really only one problem: the universal belief that material or mental power is power. The answer is not to find greater material or mental forces, or better agreements. The answer is turning to “My Spirit”—the still small Voice within. Through meditation, stillness, and the conscious awareness of God’s presence, that Voice becomes the power that stills material sense and reveals that God alone governs.
The responsibility therefore rests upon spiritually awakened individuals to become avenues through which the still small Voice can operate. The world cannot ultimately be healed by might or by power, but through individuals who become still enough that God’s grace and peace can flow out from them.
Joel closes by urging us to always carry with us the idea that “My peace goes before me; this Presence goes before me. Thy grace is sufficient. My peace I give to you. My peace—eternal peace, spiritual peace, heavenly peace, divine peace, eternal and immortal peace—I give you.” In this way we become instruments through which God’s grace reaches the world, dispelling fear and carrying the benediction of spiritual peace.
The recording will be available for listening through October 31, 2026.
September 1-30, 2026
Recording 137B: 1956 Melbourne Class
“The Principles of ‘As’ and ‘Is,’ continued”
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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