'Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it,' (Psalm 127) so says the Psalmist, and so teaches Joel Goldsmith. Goldsmith gives direct, clear teachings of a path that can lead the student to the 'house built without hands, eternal in the heavens.' Entrance to this house, this consciousness, comes through the Grace of God. What can we do to speed the day when God's grace welcomes us to our rightful spiritual heritage, our conscious awareness of our true being? In Consciousness Is What I Am, Joel Goldsmith teaches how to instruct the mind to be a dedicated servant of God and His ways. He teaches how to drop our old concepts of good and evil. He teaches that we can receive, through prayer and meditation, God's instructions. Materialism must be surmounted before we can enter this fourth-dimensional consciousness which transcends time and space. Only then can we become consciously aware of God's purpose for ourselves and others. Consciousness is the house built without hands. Consciousness is the house the Lord hath built. Consciousness is what we are. This is the real meaning of the second coming of Christ -- the coming of Christ in your consciousness, in my consciousness, and in universal consciousness. Goldsmith assures us that, 'Every effort we make to gain more of the fourth-dimensional consciousness through reading and hearing the words of a spiritual message is destroying some mortality in us, and at the same time, clothing us with immortality. Every meditation that turns us within to let the hidden splendor flow is lifting consciousness to that fourth-dimensional consciousness.' Changes are brought about through the expansion of consciousness. 'This world' is no longer the controlling influence in our lives as these newly revealed truths become the basis for thoughts and actions. We become aware of an indwelling presence that externalizes itself in everyday life. We are entering the house that the Lord has built; a house 'not made with hands' where all lived in the beginning. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH (1892-1964), a monumental teacher of practical mysticism, devoted most of his life to the discovery and teaching of spiritual principles which he called The Infinite Way. More than thirty books have been compiled from his tape-recorded lectures and classwork, and a worldwide student body exists which continues to practice and preserve his work.