Melchizedek - the Babe Act Of Devotion, Joel S. Goldsmith tape 122B

good morning with so many here I guess you felt that you might be in that the Barth of the babe we have been speaking about the transcendental consciousness that mind that was also in Christ Jesus spiritual consciousness spiritual awareness we have been quoting where the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty [Music] in the incident have the birth of Jesus Christ as described in Scripture if you read through the eyes of the world you will miss the great point here is a very insignificant baby born to a very insignificant family couple the carpenter a

Jewish Carpenter and his little Jewish wife nobody's traveling on the road to Jerusalem for that annual celebration at the temple bringing the tithes just to Ordinary People in a multitude and unto them a child is born and instantly something unusual takes place wise men come to pay homage to that babe and they come bringing gifts many people come from many directions of the land all of them bringing gifts all of them coming with recognition I just see this there is no personal effort on the part of Mary or of Joseph to attract attention to themselves

but babe could probably do nothing but lie there and cry a little bit and sleep a whole lot and yet without a single effort these people come from near and far bring their offerings bring their worship their adoration something like that takes place when a Crown Prince or Crown Princess is born later when they become king or queen and you might if you were Looking Through The Eyes Of The World you might actually believe that all of the people doing honor to this new king or queen were actually interested in that person yet they have

no interest in them whatsoever interest is in the king and the Queen it wouldn't make any difference whose body the king of Queen for occupying because the very moment that that king of Queen lays down their human sense of life it's long live the next king or the next Queen the past one has forgotten it never was the person that anyone cared about it was the office of king or queen right now they happen to have a most beautiful queen of England and a most gracious queen sweet woman but it would be a tremendous mistake

to believe that anyone has any interest in that woman whatsoever accept the fact that she symbolizes the head of the government she symbolizes Queen and so does as we go back to the base of the birth of the babe you will find that no one cared about that infant that the infant was of no importance the infant couldn't draw a single soul unto itself except his parents or grandparents or brothers and sisters not what why is it that draw that Drew unto this babe the wise men the visitors the worshipers something that the Babe represented

something that was present in the babe and we call that the Christ it wasn't the Babe itself it was the Christ which that they embodied represented no baby in and of itself draws unto itself anything like that there must be a presence and a power that humans could never explain and that humans could never see because it takes what is called the wise men it takes the illumin State of Consciousness to perceive but that they've embodies the spiritual entity only those gifted with wisdom spiritual wisdom would know or be drawn you see those in high

Authority knew nothing of it when they heard of it they feared had they understood the nature of the Christ they would never have feared because the Christ is not a temporal power the Christ never aspires to place or position Lee Christ never aspires to lead an army or navy against anyone [Music] May Christ never aspires even to destroy that is where the church throughout all time in every age including the present one has no understanding of the nature of the Christ because every time a Christ appears on Earth or a teaching approximating the Christ the

church fears it as if the Christ were going to destroy anything or anybody the Christ isn't of a destructive nature the Christ is of a construct of nature no one need ever fear the Christ and yet whoever even claims to appear those in Authority tremble and fear and try to do away with it now the Christ isn't a man or woman the Christ is a Divine state of consciousness which appears on Earth as a man or woman but not necessarily one man or one woman because it appears in some degree as every man on Earth

and every woman on earth there is no one on the face of the globe and never has been so lowly in any way that they have not in some measure shown forth the Christ everyone there is no one that has never been a soul on the face of the globe who has not in some measure in some degree at some time shown forth the nature of the Christ in some experience but Christ hurt itself is the fullness of that transcendental quality character nature and uh those who like the master attain it in its fullness are

of course recognized as Messiahs or saviors or spiritual revelators but that which makes them a messiah or Revelator is the fact that they wholly and fully perceive that christhood is the reality of individual you and me only in the degree that they perceive the universal nature of christhood would they represent the full embodiment of the Christ in other words what do these saviors come to Earth to reveal they do not come to reveal their nature or their quality because usually there are messages accompanied with such words as I can of my own self do nothing

my Doctrine is not mine if I speak of myself I speak a lie so their messages that Christ heard is a spiritual entity and identity which is the reality of our being there would be no Christ Hood if they came to Earth to tell of their christhood they would have none christhood is recognized in an individual who comes to Earth to reveal your christhood and to enable you and me to bring forth more of that than we are at any moment doing you see any quality of good that we are bringing through inequality that any

of us bring through is a measure of christhood since we have no such qualities of ourselves but the mere fact that we have it within us in any case to be just or wise or benevolent or forgiving or loving or cooperative indicates the fact that christhood is where we are within us and that we have the ability to bring it through in Greater measure than any of us have yet attained or even believed was a possibility and that is the function of the Savior the Savior isn't a man now the savior is that State of

Consciousness which appeared even at fourth in Jesus Christ and was recognized by Wise Men by all of spiritual vision or intuition they recognize that quality as being present in that babe and that quality in its full development in that babe says you can go and do likewise because this that I am showing forth is the father within but it is your father and my father now do you notice that the wise men brought gifts or when it is said that the Birds Sang and the angels flew about and the Stars sang in the skies and

all men are spiritual phenomena took place at this birth of the Christ so it ever has been so it always will be that at the moment of the Christ appearing as your individual Consciousness at the moment that you transcend your ordinary human sense of I and realize the nature of the Christ as your being and relax your personal efforts that wise men will come bringing you gifts and songs will be sung and praise has been given in other words the world brings to the Christ its gifts one doesn't have to go out and earn them

or deserve them or do something to get them the whole world unites in offering its wealth its homage its adoration to that Christ Hood it would make no difference to the Christ to the world whether the Christ appeared as an insignificant babe of an insignificant couple or if it appeared as the son of Caesar or of the Queen of England it makes no difference to the world it will offer itself wherever christward appears now christhood or spiritual illumination that mind that was in Christ Jesus comes as the grace of God and no one can receive

it by their own efforts by their own laborers yet no one can receive it without effort and without labor because either in our past experience and what no one doubt that life is eternal and that therefore we have existed individually as long as God has somewhere along the line Grace touches each soul and uh that individual who has been brutish who has been dictatorial who has been evil Begins for some unknown reason to have his or her thoughts turned to good and probably in someone lifetime passes out of this picture a much finer individual than

when he or she came into birth and then you may know that that individual has been touched by divine grace and that their accent has been begun this is true individually and collectively that is why the world today is spiritually on a higher level than any age that has ever existed before now for the simple reason that this evolutionary process this touch of the Christ has come to more individuals with the passage of time and therefore is appearing more collectively on Earth as a better Society oh there are many signs that Society is not in

any wise perfect either humanly or spiritually but the point that the wise look at is not an individual experience or a year but the development over a period of time for instance you cannot see spiritual evolution in the throwing of an atomic bomb but you can witness it in the amount of horror that is expressed by the citizens of a Nation when they learn of it when you find that a nation as a whole is not and never was in favor of such a thing even for the purpose of self-preservation then you know that spiritual

presence and power is more evident in human consciousness oh there are so many signs throughout the globe in the freeing of slave peoples in the conviction that slavery is not a correct thing a right thing a moral thing even where what seems to be uh the necessities of Human Experience make it still evident in places the very fact that all of Human Nature has turned against every form of slavery every form of limitation a yes yes this may sound like an extreme case of it but in one of the large magazines yesterday there was a

whole page whiskey ad dedicated to Father's Day and instructing fathers how they must teach their children moderation even in the use of whiskey even the whiskey owners would like to liberate us from their enslavements well that couldn't have been a generation ago you know now and understanding the nature of the Christ an individual experience it is first necessary to realize that a release must come in our experience this would not be as true of the little child as it would be of us a little child being taught the nature of the Christ would be more

receptive because it had less of that sense of I to overcome it knows nothing yet of having to battle the world for a livelihood it knows nothing yet of protecting itself from evil peoples it knows nothing of the world's belief uh well it was something like watching this dog yesterday last evening and noting how it had not a thing in its Consciousness but the idea of play there was not a single thought of having to prepare for today's manner or anything else that was not a single trace of anything in that nature but play evidently

there was an innate awareness without conscious reasoning that everything that was functioning in an orderly manner and probably if hunger came tomorrow it would be satisfied but it probably had no awareness that hunger would even come tomorrow that was satisfied now and so we are told that we must come as little children that is very much how as little children come not with any thought of tomorrow but with the realization of numbness now all is well and the child never believes that it's well because of its efforts there is that lack of eye-ness it knows

that everything is all right but probably it is unconscious in the child to realize that it's because of mama or Papa that everything is all right but certainly not because of I or me or mine as we can approach that State of Consciousness in the realization that it is not a conscious effort of our own that brings wise men to us bringing gifts or brings the world to us with its uh offerings but rather by this innate this inherent entity or Identity or spiritual nature which is forever drawing unto itself its own there's a point

there is that within each of us that is forever drawing unto itself its own we may call that the father Within we call may call it the father mother God we may call it the Christ it is uh whatever it is but it is of the nature and character the purpose of which is to draw unto itself its own and it can do that best in our relaxing from quietness from personal effort and of course it won't come without personal effort under that personal effort now is not aimed at drawing the good to us but

in uh growing out of us the realization of its presence there's where the effort comes effort has been directed toward earning a living toward gaining fame or Fortune toward act accumulation accretion toward the getting whereas effort rightly directed is toward the realization of this infinite invisible that which we call the father within or the Christ there lies the effort it is like in the meeting of a problem whether for ourselves or another the meaning of a problem is accomplished by the amount of effort that we can bring to relaxing from effort in other words it

is very much like waiting out a storm instead of going into it and it it is very much like I don't know who it was who said this too shall pass that is very much like that attitude of mind this too shall pass and then sitting quietly or moving about one's Affairs quietly in the realization that whatever the name or nature of this this is that it shall pass not by any directed efforts of mine not by any will or Supernatural powers but by virtue of the nothingness of this it which we have been respecting

by fighting the battle is not yours but God's stingy still and see the salvation of the Lord it is very much the effort of effortlessness the effort of being quiet in the face of storms in the face of the discords of Human Experience so that this tool might pass it won't pass while we are fighting it it won't pass because we are making a reality of it and we are perpetuating it in our Consciousness because this it has no externalized existence it exists only as a mental image in our own thought and as we retire

to this inner sanctuary and wait the storm passes we learn afterward that it never was a storm outside of us it was a storm within our own being that outside all was peaceful and Serene because the neighbors down the street knew nothing about the storm that we were battling it just didn't exist to them because they were inside of us and that's where the storm this sin this disease this lack and limitation that's the only place that has existence is within us and if we get still enough quiet enough acquire some of David's Assurance of

God's grace then this this will also pass christhood is a recognition of this truth the degree of our christhood can be measured by the degree of quiet of peace that we can mean while waiting for this to pass in Burrows Palm waiting you have that entire secret of christhood he must have known that what he was saying was not true of human beings that waiting will bring your good to you because too many human beings have been waiting for too long and they haven't found it to be so he must have known that it was

a spirit of trying of Tranquility within himself that it was a spirit of peace within himself and that with the attainment of this he could say wait and my own shall come to me so it is when people say oh I just trust God to do it you notice very often that God has a way of not doing it because as human beings they have no God to do it for them and that which they are expecting to do it for them has no existence what they are calling God has no existence so they keep

waiting for a non-existent God to do a very concrete thing and it doesn't come off that way but in the realization of this inner divine selfhood in the finding oneself at peace in it is the attainment of that which does draw unto itself everything necessary for its unfoldment for its development for its nature for its freedom try to go back again to that babe in Jerusalem and see that without saying God will do it without any knowledge of God the world was bringing itself to its feet then you will see that it is in the

Tranquility of the Soul that this spiritual awareness develops spiritual awareness is another term for a realization of the nothingness of storms problems spiritual awareness is another term for a state of being or a state of consciousness which knows that the creative principle of this universe is also the maintaining and sustaining influence you see we say oh spiritual consciousness heals or spiritual consciousness is the multiplier of Loaves and Fishes or spiritual consciousness is a redeeming power and then we ask what is spiritual consciousness and so if you do ask yourself in meditation what is spiritual consciousness

the answer will come spiritual consciousness is your awareness that I am that I exist that there is a presence at the center of your being which lives your life for you spiritual consciousness is your awareness of my presence spiritual consciousness is your awareness of the nothingness of the thoughts and things of the world spiritual consciousness is your awareness of my peace at the center of your being spiritual consciousness is your awareness that my grace is your sufficiency so the very moment we attain the very first glimpse that God's grace is our sufficiency in all things

we are then in spiritual consciousness or we have attained a measure of spiritual consciousness the more uh we achieve David's assurance of God's grace that's that statement given at the head of the 23rd psalm David's Assurance of God's grace the more we attain that Assurance of God's grace the more spiritual consciousness has developed and evolved in us the less personal effort there is in living human life the less effort and personal strength there is needed to overcome the problems of life until that day comes when in perfect tranquility there are not only no problems of

life but when the world is coming to us bearing its gifts showering its glories upon us and then all of a sudden you say I don't deserve this and how true that is because it isn't being brought to you or to me any more than these gifts are being brought to the Queen of England they are not being brought to Elizabeth they are being brought to the queen and so as this world peace and this world of Grace and this world's good which is brought to us which is laid at our feet is not because

of me or you no it is because of christhood it is because of this sense of Tranquility that has come through the realization of a divine presence and a divine power at the heart and Center not only of our being more particularly at the heart and center of individual beings christhood is Christ Hood only in proportion as it recognizes christhood as a universal state of being as long as it sets itself up as Christ did it is not Christ Hood christhood is the recognition of God as the central theme of man's being the very moment

you realize God to be the activity of animal vegetable mineral you are in that degree showing forth christhood but it is necessary to recognize it as universal being in recognizing as universal being do you see what happens in the nature of loving my enemies the enemies disappear do you see what happens in the nature of uh loving thy neighbor as thyself even thy neighbors disappear and it all becomes thyself they're no longer friends they're no longer enemies it is the oneself it is the god self appearing as infinite individuality as an Infinity of people and

things even Abraham who is the father of the Hebrew race which places them in the same category of the Hebrew race perhaps as Jesus of the Christian even Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek in other words it makes no difference who you are what's your name or station in life as a human always pay tithes always play your all at the feet of that which was never born Melchizedek was never born and has never died for Melchizedek is the spirit of God appearing as a human being and who is that human being you and me and

he and she the spirit of God is that to which every human in other words must acknowledge every one of us must acknowledge the spiritual identity of each other and that is our ties to Melchizedek just as it was the wise men's gifts to the babe you see the tithe of Abraham to Melchizedek is exactly the same story as the wise men bringing gifts to the babe it is the recognition of spiritual identity it is the recognition of christhood it is the recognition of divine sonship and every time that you give inner recognition to Christ

Hood anywhere on Earth you are bringing your gifts to the babe or tithing with Melchizedek you are recognizing that no matter how great or Noble or wonderful you are in your human Hood you are still less than that spiritual selfhood of yourself and of others Jesus bore witness to this in denying himself I counted my own self do nothing this Doctrine is not mine but his that sent me that was his tithing and bringing gifts to spiritual identity no one on the face of the globe can miss the experience of bringing their gifts to the

Christ of tithing with Melchizedek not one of us can be spared or saved the experience of bending the knee to the godhood of each other to the godhood of this world David's Assurance then comes from the same state of mind as the master facing Pilate and saying thou could have no power over me unless it came from the Father in heaven and so as we would know the christhood of each other we also would have a calm clear assurance that no one in this room was going to do anything destructive or dishonest and so we

too would settle back with each other in a state of tranquility and calm assurance that we were in safe and good company ah but that isn't enough that isn't enough it is in proportion as we would recognize christhood as the true nature of individual being that we would have that same calmness that same assurance even when we went out against Goliath feeling that with all of its seeming strength a little Pebble would be enough in our case the pebble wouldn't be a material one the pebble would be that one tiny little word I am Thou

Art We Are One in Christ the spirit of God is your life your soul your being that would be our pebble that would be the only Stone we would need against Goliath would be the word and the word is I am and thou art We Are One the master told Peter that only spiritual consciousness the father Within enabled Peter to recognize Jesus as the Christ and so it is that only spiritual consciousness in you will enable you to perceive the Christ in your neighbor as the living Witness in all men in the world it isn't

enough to make an affirmation or statement of Truth that Christ is the center of all being or that every man is a child of God that affirmation may be enough to start a person's thinking but it isn't enough to make one's demonstration there must eventually come an actual State of Consciousness within you in which you yourself perceive christhood really as Man's real being do not make the mistake ever of being satisfied with a statement of Truth regardless of how true it may be or how Noble or Divine the individual was who said it don't be

satisfied with that because the mere fact that Jesus said it won't make your demonstration or that you're willing to acknowledge it there must come to our hearts an actual conviction there must come to our Consciousness to our soul an actual Awakening to these truths before these truths can be made evident in our experience you remember the man that warned us that all those who say Christ Christ will not enter in all those who make these affirmations of Truth regardless of how truthful they are they are not the ones who have entered spiritual consciousness because spiritual

consciousness is only attained as it becomes a state of conviction down in the region of the heart not up in the region of the head it may well be that it enters our Consciousness through the head we first learn it with the mind we read it with our intellect that it has not yet become the christhood of our being until the field takes place the awareness the actual Consciousness in which the recognition that Peter gave to jesus takes place when the same recognition that Abraham had for Melchizedek the same recognition that the wise men had

for Jesus the same recognition that Peter had of the Christ that when that Consciousness comes to our soul to our light when we perceive actually within our own being yes Thou Art the Christ Christ is the truth of being Christ is the real nature Christ is that center of my being which draws unto itself its own then in that point of recognition is the transition made always remember that there is for each one of us a point a time or place of transition when these intellectually known truths becomes spiritually discerned consciousness spiritually discerned uh being

spiritually discerned truth now to attain it the spiritual discernment it is far more necessary that we abide in Stillness at the center of our being to let these other convictions pass from us these judgments of the world or judgments of each other in other words resting back and letting the storm pass letting these arguments of material sense letting these uh material estimates of God man in the universe drop away from us then fighting them or battling them or trying to change them or exchange them it is far better to sit back quietly and let them

pass from us and in that in the same way that we sit back and let problems pass this might not have been true as young students as young students it may have been very necessary for us to wrestle with the problem wrestle with the error and voice an awful lot of truth but that time has passed for us younger students coming up will never have to go through all the years that we went through of wrestling with error and wrestling with truth and fighting intellectually with it they may have a month or two of it

but not any longer than that because they are saved from that in the same way that Jesus crucifixion is supposed to save us from the results of our sins or in the same way that our children can start writing in jet planes and uh we started some of us with horses and Buggies now uh it isn't necessary that every generation goes through the errors of the past Generations it is part of the idea of Salvation that the crucifixion of one shall be the salvation of the many and so it is that the struggles of the

Wright brothers become the blessings for us the story is that the crucifixion of a Jesus becomes a way of salvation for us so that the only crucifixion that comes to us is the crucifixion of personal sense within ourselves we don't have to go through an outer crucifixion for the world we merely go through an inner one for ourselves but children brought up with us won't even have to do that because they won't have the personal sense to crucify we have a personal sense that took 30 40 50 years to develop and now we are trying

to crucify it and live a universal sense but the child brought up right from the start and the realization that there is a love at the center of man's being that the powers of evil are not a reality that child will never go through what we have because it isn't a part of the spiritual picture for there to be a struggle or a war remember that the degree of our struggle is only the degree of our human Hood opposing our spiritual natures and for some of us that's tough we have lost a lot of human

heart too overcome and uh it isn't all evil human Hood either you watch the struggle of some of our very fine human beings to overcome their good human hood or their sense of good human right and you see that they may have a harder struggle and we have because so nice to hold on to one's goodness at least we who are evil know enough to know that it'll be well to get rid of it but the good people believe that theirs is good and like to hold on to it so it's between the two let's

speak evil and christhood comes to our individual consciousness as we see less and less of a need for struggle in the world as we see less and less need for battling in the world that is the evidence of the degree of christhood that is unfolding well we see Abraham tithing with Melchizedek we see the wise men bringing their gifts to the babe we see Peter recognizing the christhood of Jesus and so we watch a great symbology in going into temples or holy places and removing the shoes or going into the Orthodox Hebrew synagogue and keeping

on the Hat or going into a Christian church and taking off the hat it makes no difference what form of symbology is used whether it is taking off a hat or putting it on taking off shoes or putting them on as long as there is an act of humility as long as there is an act of recognition what that act is whether it is kneeling in church and a communion and drinking the symbolic wine and eating the symbolic bread none of this makes any difference but all of it no something of that nature and each

of us must be performed whether or not we accept the kneeling in church in a symbolic recognition of Christ or whether we enter any holy Place removing our hat or putting on a skull cap or kneeling or lighting a candle or placing a flower beneath a picture regardless of what form of symbology is used to each one must come an occasion of using some form of symbology but it must come as a dictate of the heart not as a ceremonial or demanded by some outer rule or regulation in other words when it comes to an

individual as a free state of their unconsciousness the place of flower on an altar or to light a candle or a piece of incense when it comes to some individual to remove their hat or tip it or place it on or take off their shoes some such ceremony must eventually come to an individual as a recognition of that to which they are acknowledging christhood otherwise Christ has not yet come to the heart until some moment comes when this tithe is given as a conscious thing or the gift to the babe or Thou Art of Christ

until such time comes as the heart of itself says and compels one to perform an act of purification or an act of sacrifice or an act of devotion the Christ has not come and the letter of Truth is dead and it killeth the letter of Truth is of no avail until the heart has yielded until the soul has paid homage to Christ somewhere somehow in someone in something to each one it comes in a different way to each one that comes in a different form to each one the recognition and the symbology may appear in

an original and distinctive way that at some time in every individual's experience the Christ is born and is recognized by an act of devotion let us not forget this the birth of the Christ is recognized by a voluntary Act of devotion and until that act of devotion has come the Christ is still the expected Messiah we are either awaiting the Messiah or we are awaiting the second coming of the Messiah but we have not attained the Christ and heart until an act of devotion an act of homage or an act of sacrifice an act of

Love takes place within our being by that sign you may know that Christ is born in you thank you