A downloadable recording of Church Lectures 37 and 38 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on October 6 and November 3, 1974.

An audio recording on compact disc of Church Lectures 39 and 40 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on December 1, 1974, and January 5, 1975.

CL 39: Self-Control --- The Philosophy of Spiritualism: “Without awareness, there is no control. And without control, there is no freedom . . . Without self-control, my friends, whatever thought your consciousness is exposed to controls your life . . . Our teaching and philosophy is that like attracts like and becomes the Law of Attachment . . . And so it is in life, the only thing worth seeking, the only thing that has any power to change your life, to transform you, to bring you the fulfillment your soul is seeking, the only thing is called peace . . . Peace, which we understand to be God, the divine, neutral, intelligent Energy expressing through all form, that great Peace we experience through self-control . . . Often we have spoken that heaven is not a place you’re going to go to, but it’s a state of consciousness that you’re growing to this moment in the here and in the now . . . Let us strive to be a bit better. Let us strive for a little more awareness, a little more freedom . . . This philosophy does not teach you what is right or wrong. It teaches you the divinity of your own soul . . . let’s stop trying to do something in life and let’s just get it done!”

CL 40: Experience , The Mirror of Motive: “. . . because we have been granted what is known as choice, we, therefore, have become a law unto our self . . . However, that divine right, known as choice, does not come to us without its own responsibility . . . And so we have a teaching in this philosophy and that is that energy follows attention through the vehicle of thought . . . Our teaching is that forgiveness frees our soul from the bondage of self . . . God is ever equal to our understanding. And so as we expand our understanding, our God becomes more full in our lives . . . Only through a lack understanding is man intolerant to the rest of God’s creation. Let us not be so important in life that we know which path another human soul must walk . . . Let us not worry what our brother is doing, for that energy that we use for that level of consciousness is depriving that energy to heal our own mind, to heal our own body . . . when we set the Law of Intolerance into motion, we guarantee that experience that we are intolerant of to come to us someday . . . Let us commit ourselves to our own God within our own consciousness, because only through commitment to that which is our only life can we truly be free.”

A downloadable recording of Church Lectures 39 and 40 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on December 1, 1974, and January 5, 1975.

An audio recording on compact disc of Church Lectures 41 and 42 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on February 2, and March 2, 1975.

CL 41: Application - The Law of Supply: “Most of us, I am sure, are aware that supply of anything, be it material, mental, or spiritual, is nothing more nor less than the effect of directed energy . . . If we permit the experiences of yesterday to be the guidance for our eternal moment of now, then the emotions and the feelings of yesterday will continue to control our lives . . . It does not benefit mankind to learn the divine, natural laws of life and not move them into physical, material, mundane application . . . When we feel emotional concerning our seeming temporary inability to attain what our minds are seeking, it simply means that the divine law is not being applied in what is known as the electrical field of your own being . . . We have the divine birthright to enjoy the fullness of the world in which we are expressing . . . Let us not look at another and desire what he or she has. For in so doing, my good friends, you deny what God has waiting for you . . . Let us accept the world the way that it truly is: filled with love and beauty, filled with prosperity and purpose.”

CL 42: Self-Will, The Wheel of Illusion: “When man exercises what is known as his conscious choice, we understand that to be an expression of his will . . . The experiences of our life, of times that have already past, are the motivating forces within us that make decisions for us in our life, when we are expressing self-will . . . Until such time as we make a greater effort to know about our own mind, to know how it controls our life and guarantees all experiences that we encounter, then we, as individualized souls, will not be free . . . I know of no other way to free the soul, besides a daily, honest soul searching to find out what you have accepted in your lives as truth . . . Many philosophers have taught that joy is an inside job. My good friends, Spiritualism teaches that all of life is an inside job. For what in truth is life, but the limit of man’s own experiences? . . . when you find truth in your own soul, you will not have to be told; you will know that you are an inseparable part of one Divine Intelligence . . . Truth is individually perceived. If you think that you do not have truth, it simply means that you have no self-control. For freedom is the direct effect of self-control and truth, my friends, is freedom.”

A downloadable recording of Church Lectures 41 and 42 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on February 2, and March 2, 1975.

An audio recording on compact disc of Church Lectures 43 and 44 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on April 6, and May 4, 1975.

CL 43: The Love of Living: “. . . when we accept that demonstrable divine truth of personal responsibility for all experiences that we encounter in life, when we truly accept that law, then we will demonstrate what is known as divine will . . . divine will is total consideration, total acceptance . . . Without acceptance my friends, there is no faith . . . All of us are controlled, to a great extent, by what is referred to in this philosophy as the tapes of past experiences . . . There is no reason in any mind to suffer and experience a life of grief and misery. It is only our absolute refusal to accept a higher power, a Divine Intelligence that holds the stars in space, to which all things are possible . . . Whatever man relies upon becomes his master. Let us not forget that . . . Let us become aware of who it is that is guiding our ship of destiny.”

CL 44: Fourth Anniversary: “It is the inherent nature of all people, of all form, of all creatures to strive to organize themselves in order that they may fulfill their chosen desires . . . through a lack of control of our own mind, we find ourselves in what is known as chaos and disorganization . . . our teaching in this philosophy is an education, a balance of our functions of desire and soul faculties of aspiration . . . we often use as an excuse the lack of time . . . he who sees the obstruction, that soul shall not find the way . . . a wise man will place his attention on what he wants to become in life, not place his attention upon what he is desiring to overcome . . . For organization is an effect. It is an effect of a balanced mind, it is an effect of understanding . . . If things in this world of creation had lasting value, business would not boom as it does . . . desires of the moment are fleeting . . . we cannot express in our consciousness what we have not yet accepted . . . we all change. But we don’t necessarily change the way someone else wants us to change . . . let us first become the living demonstration of organization before we decide to suggest and demand how another organization should organize itself.”

A downloadable recording of Church Lectures 43 and 44 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on April 6, and May 4, 1975.

An audio recording on compact disc of Church Lectures 45 and 46 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 1, and July 6, 1975.

CL 45: Destiny - A Spiritual View: “. . . religions of our world have taught and continue to teach that God is love, that the true shall set us free . . . acceptance is the divine will . . . rejection is the self-will . . . We do understand that a seeming bad experience is nothing more nor less than seeming underdeveloped good . . . by our own acceptance, by our own rejections, we in truth are declaring and have declared our own destiny . . . that that guarantees pleasure is destined to guarantee pain . . . he who relies upon man for his joy, his supply, his health, his prosperity, comes under the control of man’s law, not God’s law . . . If you cannot be honest with yourself, you cannot be honest with your God . . . A wise philosopher once said, “Manifest the divinity within yourself and all things shall become harmoniously arranged around you” . . . the manifestation of divinity is whole, total, and complete acceptance in consciousness . . . divine law is total consideration . . . satisfaction permits our soul to sleep, but irritation wakes the soul . . . That which you give thought you, you give power to . . . look at how, when, and why you receive your goodness and you will know your bondage and you will know your eternal destiny.”

CL 46: Patience - Pain and Pleasure: “. . . patience is a soul faculty . . . And patience, perseverance, and promise is a soul faculty . . . truth cannot and does not exist in a dual expression called mind . . . our soul is taken to its true home and that is called our heart . . . In creation, the illusion created by mind stuff brings us fleeting moments of pleasure, but each fleeting moment is guaranteed by the laws of creation to bring us equal pain . . . man’s only suffering is his denial of God . . . Bondage is in the head . . . It is where we have decided what will bring us joy and happiness . . . until we learn to separate truth from creation, we will never have the divine freedom that is our eternal right . . . it takes self-control to reach your heart . . .there’s a bottom to self-will . . . when we hit the bottom, we start to rise in divine will . . . man cannot desire what man already has . . . learn to bow the head in humility . . . bow it in the depths of humiliation that our soul may rise in the heights of humility . . . God, in truth, is the most humble servant of all.”

A downloadable recording of Church Lectures 45 and 46 of the Living Light Philosophy, given through the mediumship of Richard P. Goodwin on June 1, and July 6, 1975.