Herb Fitch · The Infinite Way · Revelation of Saint John

You Are the Spirit of God: Discovering the Identity Christ Already Gave You

Herb Fitch, opening lecture on the Revelation of Saint John — presented by Mike Spirit Ademola

What if the authority you have spent your whole life searching for — in teachers, in institutions, in scripture read from the outside — was never external to begin with? Herb Fitch opens his teaching on the Revelation of Saint John with a claim so direct it can startle a first-time listener: there was an authority on this earth before the world began, and that authority never left. It is not a book. It is not a church. It is the very spirit of God, and it is what you are.

This is the heart of the Infinite Way as Herb Fitch presents it here — not a doctrine to memorize, but an identity to accept. Before you can understand any scripture, any healing, any answer to the problems of human life, you must first settle the question of who is asking. Herb's answer is unambiguous: you are not a mortal being trying to reach God. You are the spirit of God, appearing here, now, as you.

Before Abraham Was, I Am: An Authority Not of This Earth

Herb begins by naming the deepest disappointment of the spiritual search: we keep turning to authorities — teachers, leaders, institutions — and finding them wanting. "We find the clay feet of those whom we would have lead us," he says, "all too late and all too tragic." But there was, and is, one authority that never disappoints, because it never left.

"There was an authority on this earth before the world began and that authority never left this earth... before Abraham was, I am, and I still am, and I am forever, for I am the eternal self. I am your authority."

This is not a historical claim about Jesus alone. Herb is pointing to the "I am" as the name of your own being — the same eternal self that spoke through the Christ, indwelling every person who has ever lived. The search for an outer authority ends the moment you recognize that the word of God can never be found outside of your own being.

The Kingdom Is Not Somewhere Else

Much of Christian teaching, Herb notes, has quietly reversed the actual message of the Christ. We are told to wait for a kingdom, to earn our way toward a distant heaven, to look outward for the source of healing and peace. But the gospel itself says otherwise: "My kingdom is not of this world, but the kingdom of God is within you." Herb calls this the "straight and narrow way that leadeth unto life" — narrow, because it requires giving up every human concept of where God is thought to reside.

"You will discover why human authorities have never been sufficient. You will discover why the word of God can never be found outside of your own being. You will discover the path of revelation."

The path of revelation, in other words, is not a path outward into more information. It is a path inward, into the recognition of what you already are.

One Life, and It Has No Opposite

Toward the end of this opening lesson, Herb offers what may be the most practical teaching of all: the difference between life and non-life, spirit and its apparent opposite. He asks the listener to sit with a simple but radical claim — that anything which is not spirit, is not actually alive, and therefore has no real power.

"That which is not the life of God does not exist. That which is not spirit does not exist, and it has no opposite... there is no power in non-life. There is no power except in spirit."

This is not a denial that difficult conditions appear. It is a redefinition of what they are made of. A germ, a bomb, a diagnosis, a fear — these are, in Herb's phrase, "non-life," and non-life has no power of its own. Only spirit is alive, and you are that spirit. The condition may still be standing in front of you, but your identification with it — your belief that it has power over the one life you actually are — is what dissolves as this truth becomes real to you.

"You Must Accept Yourself to Be the Spirit of God"

Herb does not let this remain an abstract or comforting idea. He insists that it must be an accepted identity, not a hoped-for attainment. There is, he says, no halfway position available to someone walking the Christ path — no room to keep one foot in mortality while reaching with the other hand toward spirit.

"There is no place in Christ teaching for anyone who still believes himself to be a physical mortal being... you must accept the identity of Christ. I must accept that I am He, I am that self, I am that spiritual being who can never be divided, and who is all."

This is the plain meaning of the video's title. You are the spirit of God — not metaphorically, not someday, but as the truth of your being right now, waiting only for your acceptance of it.

The Diamond Rings: How Spirit Works Beneath the Thinking Mind

Herb illustrates how this deeper self actually operates with a simple story. A woman placed her diamond rings in a glass of cleaning solution, then absent-mindedly threw the glass — and the rings — into the garbage. Frantic, she called a friend, turned the problem over in her mind, and found no answer. Only when she stopped thinking, when her human mind went quiet, did something else move her: she walked, without deciding to, straight to a drawer and found the rings safely inside, having apparently second-guessed her own memory earlier without realizing it.

"While she was unable to think, she found herself walking across the room... a higher awareness than her own conscious human mind knew the truth for her. That is the level of awareness which knows the truth for us."

This, Herb says, is the spirit of God functioning as you — not a distant deity intervening from outside, but the deeper intelligence of your own being, available the moment the noise of human thought subsides. The practice he offers is exactly this: to rest from world thought, to let it pass by without engaging it, until "a great silence, an unusual form of peace" opens, in which the spirit of God — which you are — can be known directly rather than merely believed in.