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2012 Study Guide

It is the nature of God that we be free. It is the nature of God that we be whole,” Joel S.  Goldsmith exclaims and then goes on to emphasize who “we” are – “The son of God is more than a man who lived two thousand years ago; the son of God is the spirit of God that dwelt in the man Jesus, and that dwells in every man, therefore, the son of God is present in you and me.” Discovering that son of God within us, and then knowing what it means to express that in our world, is the message of this volume, one which is particularly relevant today.

The trustees of the Valor Foundation have chosen the Infinite Way Letters of 1980, Showing Forth the Presence of God, for the 2012 Study Guide. This is the tenth of the eleven book series made up of The 1971-1981 Infinite Way Letters, prepared and edited by Lorraine Sinkler, from Joel S. Goldsmith’s tape recorded classwork. They are fine-quality soft cover books which include Scriptural References and Notes, as well as a listing of the recorded classes corresponding to each chapter of the book. In this way students can work with the cassettes or CDs along with each monthly letter. The Valor Website also provides suggestions for using Lorraine’s class work with each month’s study.

There is no selfhood apart from God,” Joel explains, “nor is there a creation apart from God. What we call a material creation is not a material creation: it is a material sense of creation… everything in this universe answers, responds, and is subject to the divine consciousness which is God.” (The 1980 Letters)

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January
“Lift Yourself to a Spiritual Altitude”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 1Noonday Meditation Classes, Chicago 1966-1967
Tape 1; Side 2; Catalog No. 6603 — Arise and Go Unto I Within
February
“Freedom by Grace”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 2The 1979 Palm Beach Class
Tape 2; Side 1; Catalog No. 7905 — Freedom Through the Realization of
The Presence
March
“God’s Blessing Is Not Dependent on Thought or Thing”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 3The 1977 Chicago Class
Tape 3; Side 1; Catalog No. 7712 — Penetrating The Disguise
April
“The True Demonstration”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 4The 1982 Chicago Closed Class
Tape 2; Side 2; Catalog No. 8202 — Function of Problems
May
“God, the Substance of Universal Being”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 5The 1977 Auckland, New Zealand Class
Tape 1; Side 1; Catalog No. 7701 — Purpose and Fruitage of Meditation
June
“The Substance of all Good”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 6The 1977 Sydney, Australia Class
Tape 3; Side 2; Catalog No. 7705 — Consciousness Unfolding As Supply and
Security
July
“Freedom Through Grace”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 7The 1977 Lombard, Illinois Special Class
Tape 1; Side 2; Catalog No. 7713 — The Divine Consciousness In Action
August
“The Spiritual Life”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 8The 1982 Chicago Closed Class
Tape 5; Side 2; Catalog No. 8205 — Living Out From Unlimited
Consciousness
September
“Seek the Substance. Not the Form”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 9The 1982 Chicago Closed Class
Tape 4; Side 1; Catalog No. 8204 — Establishing A Consciousness of
Oneness
October
“Start the Flow to God”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 10The 1978 Palm Beach Class
Tape 3; Side 2; Catalog No. 7817 — The Transforming Power of Love
November
“Spiritual Vision Alone Reveals the I Am of Individual Being”

Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 11

The 1976 Palm Beach Class
Tape 1; Side 1; Catalog No. 7601 — Consciousness Is What I AM

December
“God Alone Is Power”
Showing Forth the Presence of God, Chapter 12The 1980 Palm Beach Class
Tape 2; Side 2; Catalog No. 8002 — Living the Principle of One Power