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, 323A, “The Way,” is from the 1960 Chicago Open Class. It is one of three used as source material for Chapter 10, “The Widening Circle of Prayer,” in The Altitude of Prayer.
Preview of the Class
For the first fifteen or so minutes of this class, Joel speaks about the value of silence, emphasizing that God can only be known in silence. There is no way for us to reach God, he says, so a way must be prepared for God to reach us, and that way is inner stillness.
Then Joel gets to the core of the class. He points out that opportunities present themselves through problems, and that right now every person on the spiritual path has the great opportunity to solve world problems. As far as the world is concerned, we are in an age of unsolvable problems of such magnitude that any one of them could tear the foundations out from under our entire civilization. It is a time of fear and trembling for those outside of the spiritual path. Yet Joel points out that Jesus had a solution for every problem of human existence. That solution is a recourse to an inner kingdom, an inner power, that makes men free. “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free.”
Joel repeats something he says often—that the world’s problems will be solved spiritually —and counsels us that the answer to problems of any nature is to go within and rest in “Thy grace is my sufficiency in all things”—ALL things. There are no exceptions, even for the most pressing world problems. While there are many humanly serious problems, both individual and global, each is an opportunity, and each can be solved in the same way—by resting in that inner grace.
The recording will be available for listening through June 30, 2026.
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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