1. A Message for the New Year
#507-2: 1962/63 Princess Kaiulani Open Class 1:2
Excerpt: #314-1: 1960 Denver Closed Class 1:1
Excerpt: #263-2: 1959 Hawaiian Village Closed Class 2:2
Excerpt: #508-2: 1963 Instructions for Teaching the Infinite Way 4:2
2. Neither Do I Condemn Thee
#131-1: 1955 Seattle Private Class 2:1
#111-2: 1955 Kailua Study Group 2:2
#148-2: 1956 Second Steinway Hall Practitioner Class 2:2
3. Letting God Reveal Itself
#708-2: 1955 Capetown Series 3:2
Excerpt: #358-2: 1960 New York Open Class 1:2
4. Progressive Unfoldment
#709-1: 1955 Capetown Series 4:1
5. A Purified Consciousness
#708-1: 1955 Capetown Series 3:1
#709-1: 1955 Capetown Series 4:1
6. The Discipline of Knowing the Truth
#607-1: 1951 Second Portland Series 7:1
7. Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Liberty
#179-1: 1957 Kailua Advanced Class 1:1
8. God Realized
#179-2: 1957 Kailua Advanced Class 1:2
Excerpt: #31-2: 1953 Los Angeles Practitioner Class 5:2
9. Starting the Mystical Life
#181-1: 1957 Kailua Advanced Class 3:1
10. Surrendering the Human Sense of Health, Supply, and Peace
#181-2: 1957 Kailua Advanced Class 3:2
11. Making Your Contact with God
#709-2: 1955 Capetown Series 4:2
12. Peace on Earth
#443-1: 1961 Hawaiian Village Open Class 7:1
#151-1: 1956 Second Steinway Hall Closed Class 2:1
The Only Freedom reveals the possibility of attaining a state of permanent freedom. It is not the freedom we experience when we recover from some disease, for in that state we always know or expect that some other ailment can afflict us. It is not the freedom from lack that a wonderful new job or large inheritance may bring, for these also can fail us. The freedom described in The Only Freedom is a freedom already within us, but which can be reached only through the discipline of knowing the truth – the truth about God, man, and the nature of error – and standing firmly in the principles behind these truths. As Goldsmith says, “If we are not abiding in the Word and letting the Word abide in us, all the evils of this world can come near our dwelling place.”
Throughout this book Goldsmith shows us how to find “the liberty of the sons of God” within ourselves. He says that it may not be easy, but that freedom and fulfillment will be the end result: “Wherever there is a realization of God, man is given his freedom, not only spiritual freedom, but a spiritual freedom which becomes evident as physical, mental, moral and financial freedom.”
[Note: The Only Freedom is the collection of the 1981 Infinite Way Letters.]