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Miracles Are Seen In Light
Apr 11, 2021, 2:59:38 PM4/11/21
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*Peace*: https://tinyurl.com/buffalo208
Peace is an infinitely enormous place in your mind. Bigger than that buffalo.
Bigger than the sky. You think peace comes from the world, but the truth is peace
is in you.
Peace allows love to enter. In the absence of attack - the love of God can enter
naturally.
"Those who remember always that they know nothing, and who have become willing to
learn everything, will learn it. But whenever they trust themselves, they will
not learn. They have destroyed their motivation for learning by thinking they
already know. Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of
perfect peace, for peace and understanding go together and never can be found
alone. Each brings the other with it, for it is the law of God they be not
separate. They are cause and effect, each to the other, so where one is absent
the other cannot be."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 11 (12pdf)
Peace leads to understanding, and understanding is meaning, and meaning is love.
Thus it might say:
"Love and understanding go together and never can be found alone. Each brings the
other with it, for it is the law of God they be not separate. They are cause and
effect, each to the other, so where one is absent the other cannot be."
From peace comes love, and from love comes Self-Esteem.
Love also is happiness.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
"Miracles are seen in light. The body's eyes do not perceive the light. But I am
not a body. What am I?"
A Course in Miracles- Workbook Lesson 91
In the light of love, all things are comprehensible.
"Only those who recognize they cannot know unless the effects of understanding are
with them, can really learn at all. For this it must be peace they want, and
nothing else. Whenever you think you know, peace will depart from you, because
you have abandoned the Teacher of peace. Whenever you fully realize that you know
not, peace will return, for you will have invited him to do so by abandoning the
ego on behalf of him. Call not upon the ego for anything; it is only this that
you need do. The Holy Spirit will, of himself, fill every mind that so makes room
for him.
If you want peace you must abandon the teacher of attack. The Teacher of Peace
will never abandon you. You can desert him but he will never reciprocate, for his
faith in you is his understanding. It is as firm as is his faith in his Creator,
and he knows that faith in his Creator must encompass faith in his creation. In
this consistency lies his holiness which he cannot abandon, for it is not his will
to do so. With your perfection ever in his sight, he gives the gift of peace to
everyone who perceives the need for peace, and who would have it. Make way for
peace, and it will come. For understanding is in you, and from it peace must come.
The power of God, from which they both arise, is yours as surely as it is his. You
think you know him not, only because, alone, it is impossible to know him. Yet see
the mighty works that he will do through you, and you must be convinced you did
them through him. It is impossible to deny the Source of effects so powerful they
could not be of you. Leave room for him, and you will find yourself so filled
with power that nothing will prevail against your peace. And this will be the
test by which you recognize that you have understood."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 11 (12pdf)
"The voice of the Holy Spirit is weak in you. That is why you must share It. It
must be increased in strength before you can hear It. It is impossible to hear It
in yourself while It is so weak in your mind. It is not weak in Itself, but It is
limited by your unwillingness to hear It. If you make the mistake of looking for
the Holy Spirit in yourself alone your thoughts will frighten you because, by
adopting the ego's viewpoint, you are undertaking an ego-alien journey with the
ego as guide. This is bound to produce fear."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 3 (4pdf)
"A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together
restores the universe to both of you. You *are* prepared. Now you need but to
remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to
concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace comes at last
to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when
the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is
finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization; "_I
need do nothing_." Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find
in his own way, at his own time. You do not need this time. Time has been saved
for you because you and your brother are together. This is the special means this
course is using to save you time. You are not making use of the course if you
insist on using means which have served others well, neglecting what was made for
*you*. Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing
else. "I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided
loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is
given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation."
To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you
have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door
through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is
the way in which sin loses all attraction _right now_. For here is time denied,
and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do
nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body
ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there
abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body's activities return to
occupy your conscious mind.
Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will
be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This
quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in
the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will
you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the
body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 7, Scribed May 31, 1967
"Having made [the choice for the atonement] you will understand why you once
believed that, when you met someone else, you thought he *was* someone else. And
every holy encounter in which you enter fully will teach you this is not so.
You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God"
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3
Seek Peace, and Seek Light. When you find true peace, the love of God will
naturally enter. The love of God will naturally enter, because the love of God is
already here. It's just like if you were attacking someone who was trying to give
you, they wouldn't be able to give you, and they would go away. If you finally
stopped attacking, they would not be around anymore to give you. If you are not
at peace because of all the responsibilities and interests and worries of this
world, then it is as if you are attacking yourself. Unlike another person, God
will never go away because God is already here. But as long as you persist in
attacking yourself you will not receive God's love. As soon as you return your
mind to peace, the love of God will naturally enter because God is here already.
To be filled with the Holy Spirit merely means to give up corruption.
This is why the Course says "I need do nothing."
This world is a dream, and an illusion, and in your mind. And there is another
world in your mind, that you can see, and this world is the world of light.
"I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
Herein lies salvation, and nowhere else. Without attack thoughts I could not see
a world of attack. As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will
see a world of peace and safety and joy. And it is this I choose to see, in place
of what I look on now."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 55 review
https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
https://www.biblegateway.com/
"And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus."
- Paul the Apostle, Philippians 4:7, Holy Bible, New Testament
Peace is an infinitely enormous place in your mind. Bigger than that buffalo.
Bigger than the sky. You think peace comes from the world, but the truth is peace
is in you.
Peace allows love to enter. In the absence of attack - the love of God can enter
naturally.
"Those who remember always that they know nothing, and who have become willing to
learn everything, will learn it. But whenever they trust themselves, they will
not learn. They have destroyed their motivation for learning by thinking they
already know. Think not you understand anything until you pass the test of
perfect peace, for peace and understanding go together and never can be found
alone. Each brings the other with it, for it is the law of God they be not
separate. They are cause and effect, each to the other, so where one is absent
the other cannot be."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 11 (12pdf)
Peace leads to understanding, and understanding is meaning, and meaning is love.
Thus it might say:
"Love and understanding go together and never can be found alone. Each brings the
other with it, for it is the law of God they be not separate. They are cause and
effect, each to the other, so where one is absent the other cannot be."
From peace comes love, and from love comes Self-Esteem.
Love also is happiness.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
"Miracles are seen in light. The body's eyes do not perceive the light. But I am
not a body. What am I?"
A Course in Miracles- Workbook Lesson 91
In the light of love, all things are comprehensible.
"Only those who recognize they cannot know unless the effects of understanding are
with them, can really learn at all. For this it must be peace they want, and
nothing else. Whenever you think you know, peace will depart from you, because
you have abandoned the Teacher of peace. Whenever you fully realize that you know
not, peace will return, for you will have invited him to do so by abandoning the
ego on behalf of him. Call not upon the ego for anything; it is only this that
you need do. The Holy Spirit will, of himself, fill every mind that so makes room
for him.
If you want peace you must abandon the teacher of attack. The Teacher of Peace
will never abandon you. You can desert him but he will never reciprocate, for his
faith in you is his understanding. It is as firm as is his faith in his Creator,
and he knows that faith in his Creator must encompass faith in his creation. In
this consistency lies his holiness which he cannot abandon, for it is not his will
to do so. With your perfection ever in his sight, he gives the gift of peace to
everyone who perceives the need for peace, and who would have it. Make way for
peace, and it will come. For understanding is in you, and from it peace must come.
The power of God, from which they both arise, is yours as surely as it is his. You
think you know him not, only because, alone, it is impossible to know him. Yet see
the mighty works that he will do through you, and you must be convinced you did
them through him. It is impossible to deny the Source of effects so powerful they
could not be of you. Leave room for him, and you will find yourself so filled
with power that nothing will prevail against your peace. And this will be the
test by which you recognize that you have understood."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 11 (12pdf)
"The voice of the Holy Spirit is weak in you. That is why you must share It. It
must be increased in strength before you can hear It. It is impossible to hear It
in yourself while It is so weak in your mind. It is not weak in Itself, but It is
limited by your unwillingness to hear It. If you make the mistake of looking for
the Holy Spirit in yourself alone your thoughts will frighten you because, by
adopting the ego's viewpoint, you are undertaking an ego-alien journey with the
ego as guide. This is bound to produce fear."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, Section 3 (4pdf)
"A holy relationship is a means of saving time. One instant spent together
restores the universe to both of you. You *are* prepared. Now you need but to
remember you need do nothing. It would be far more profitable now merely to
concentrate on this than to consider what you should do. When peace comes at last
to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving in to sin; when
the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is
finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization; "_I
need do nothing_." Here is the ultimate release which everyone will one day find
in his own way, at his own time. You do not need this time. Time has been saved
for you because you and your brother are together. This is the special means this
course is using to save you time. You are not making use of the course if you
insist on using means which have served others well, neglecting what was made for
*you*. Save time for me by only this one preparation, and practice doing nothing
else. "I need do nothing" is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided
loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is
given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation."
To do anything involves the body. And if you recognize you need do nothing, you
have withdrawn the body's value from your mind. Here is the quick and open door
through which you slip past centuries of effort, and escape from time. This is
the way in which sin loses all attraction _right now_. For here is time denied,
and past and future gone. Who needs do nothing has no need for time. To do
nothing is to rest, and make a place within you where the activity of the body
ceases to demand attention. Into this place the Holy Spirit comes, and there
abides. He will remain when you forget, and the body's activities return to
occupy your conscious mind.
Yet there will always be this place of rest to which you can return. And you will
be more aware of this quiet center of the storm than all its raging activity. This
quiet center, in which you do nothing, will remain with you, giving you rest in
the midst of every busy doing on which you are sent. For from this center will
you be directed how to use the body sinlessly. It is this center, from which the
body is absent, that will keep it so in your awareness of it."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 7, Scribed May 31, 1967
"Having made [the choice for the atonement] you will understand why you once
believed that, when you met someone else, you thought he *was* someone else. And
every holy encounter in which you enter fully will teach you this is not so.
You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God"
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 3
Seek Peace, and Seek Light. When you find true peace, the love of God will
naturally enter. The love of God will naturally enter, because the love of God is
already here. It's just like if you were attacking someone who was trying to give
you, they wouldn't be able to give you, and they would go away. If you finally
stopped attacking, they would not be around anymore to give you. If you are not
at peace because of all the responsibilities and interests and worries of this
world, then it is as if you are attacking yourself. Unlike another person, God
will never go away because God is already here. But as long as you persist in
attacking yourself you will not receive God's love. As soon as you return your
mind to peace, the love of God will naturally enter because God is here already.
To be filled with the Holy Spirit merely means to give up corruption.
This is why the Course says "I need do nothing."
This world is a dream, and an illusion, and in your mind. And there is another
world in your mind, that you can see, and this world is the world of light.
"I can escape from this world by giving up attack thoughts.
Herein lies salvation, and nowhere else. Without attack thoughts I could not see
a world of attack. As forgiveness allows love to return to my awareness, I will
see a world of peace and safety and joy. And it is this I choose to see, in place
of what I look on now."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 55 review
https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
https://www.biblegateway.com/
"And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus."
- Paul the Apostle, Philippians 4:7, Holy Bible, New Testament
Miracles Are Seen In Light
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A Holy Relationship Is A Means Of Saving Time
"It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless, just for
an instant, you are willing to see no past or future. You cannot prepare for it
without placing it in the future. Release is given you the instant you desire it.
Many have spent a lifetime in preparation, and have indeed achieved their
instants of success. This course does not attempt to teach more than they learned
in time, but it does aim at saving time. You may be attempting to follow a very
long road to the goal you have accepted. It is extremely difficult to reach
Atonement by fighting against sin. Nor is a lifetime of contemplation and long
periods of meditation aimed at detachment from the body necessary. All such
attempts will ultimately succeed because of their purpose. Yet the means are
tedious and very time consuming, for all of them look to the future for release
from a state of present unworthiness and inadequacy.
Your way will be different, not in purpose but in means. A holy relationship is a
means of saving time."
"It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless, just for
an instant, you are willing to see no past or future. You cannot prepare for it
without placing it in the future. Release is given you the instant you desire it.
Many have spent a lifetime in preparation, and have indeed achieved their
instants of success. This course does not attempt to teach more than they learned
in time, but it does aim at saving time. You may be attempting to follow a very
long road to the goal you have accepted. It is extremely difficult to reach
Atonement by fighting against sin. Nor is a lifetime of contemplation and long
periods of meditation aimed at detachment from the body necessary. All such
attempts will ultimately succeed because of their purpose. Yet the means are
tedious and very time consuming, for all of them look to the future for release
from a state of present unworthiness and inadequacy.
Your way will be different, not in purpose but in means. A holy relationship is a
means of saving time."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 7, Scribed May 31, 1967
So it's all about *Self-Esteem*, isn't it?
Miracles Are Seen In Light
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For God Is Not The Author Of Confusion But Of Peace
"For God is not the author of confusion but of peace"
- Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 14:33, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14%3A33&version=NKJV
"God is not the author of fear. You are. You have chosen to create unlike him,
and have therefore made fear for yourself. You are not at peace because you are
not fulfilling your function. God gave you a very lofty function that you are not
meeting. Your ego has chosen to be afraid instead of meeting it. When you awaken
you will not be able to understand this, because it is literally incredible. *Do
not believe the incredible now*. Any attempt to increase its believableness is
merely to postpone the inevitable. The word "inevitable" is fearful to the ego,
but joyous to the spirit. God is inevitable, and you cannot avoid him any more
than he can avoid you."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 1 (2pdf)
"God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with
joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.
Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have
misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God.
What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we
rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin
is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid
than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us
forgive, for we would be at peace."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 359
"For God is not the author of confusion but of peace"
- Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 14:33, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14%3A33&version=NKJV
"God is not the author of fear. You are. You have chosen to create unlike him,
and have therefore made fear for yourself. You are not at peace because you are
not fulfilling your function. God gave you a very lofty function that you are not
meeting. Your ego has chosen to be afraid instead of meeting it. When you awaken
you will not be able to understand this, because it is literally incredible. *Do
not believe the incredible now*. Any attempt to increase its believableness is
merely to postpone the inevitable. The word "inevitable" is fearful to the ego,
but joyous to the spirit. God is inevitable, and you cannot avoid him any more
than he can avoid you."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 4, Section 1 (2pdf)
"God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with
joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.
Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. We have
misunderstood all things. But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God.
What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we
rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin
is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid
than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. Help us
forgive, for we would be at peace."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 359
Miracles Are Seen In Light
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Jesus Teaches To Forgive The Repentant
"If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And
if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to
you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
- Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3-4, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A3-4&version=NKJV
"If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And
if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to
you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”
- Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3-4, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A3-4&version=NKJV
Miracles Are Seen In Light
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The Great Rays Are Mentioned In Five Passages Of A Course In Miracles
1.
"The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and
calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the
recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his
mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has
heard God's voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in
sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can shine into another,
because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it
is eternal.
In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept
the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but
see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there
unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create. Yet in
the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for the separation was
a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the
Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in
it, and God himself will answer you."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 10, Section 4 (5pdf)
2.
"As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the
Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them,
so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is
accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what
this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this
willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it
as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that
God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands.
Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready
now, but you are not.
Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking
straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. For it is
impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want.
The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. And
both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it
impossible. For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and
deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. Yet it remains the only
means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having
been established by God.
In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the
recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see
this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept
the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would
limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think it has a
purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its
purpose into accomplishment. This will never be accomplished. Yet you have
surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether unattainable, will
strive for them with all its might, and will do so with the strength that you have
given it.
It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego,
and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was
given you. Love would *always* give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego,
and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a
brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from
it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it
not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need
only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.
If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the
need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the
attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain
willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are
complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is
impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the
body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits
the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.
You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no
idea of all the loveliness that you could see. But this you must remember; the
attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God. His attraction for you remains
unlimited, but because your power, being His, is as great as His, you can turn
away from love. What you invest in guilt you withdraw from God. And your sight
grows weak and dim and limited, for you have attempted to separate the Father from
the Son, and limit their communication. Seek not Atonement in further separation.
And limit not your vision of God's Son to what interferes with his release, and
what the Holy Spirit must undo to set him free. For his belief in limits has
imprisoned him.
When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means
of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
thoughts will be as free as God's. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to
use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for
separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of
a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only
the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join him wholly, in an
instant. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could
ever want. All truth is here."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 9
3.
"The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. If you value it,
you must also value the body. And what you value you will keep. The special
relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your
perception of others to theirs. The Great Rays would establish the total lack of
value of the special relationship, if they were seen. For in seeing them the body
would disappear, because its value would be lost. And so your whole investment in
seeing it would be withdrawn from it.
You see the world you value. On this side of the bridge you see the world of
separate bodies, seeking to join each other in separate unions and to become one
by losing. When two individuals seek to become one, they are trying to decrease
their magnitude. Each would deny his power, for the separate union excludes the
universe. Far more is left outside than would be taken in, for God is left
without and nothing taken in. If one such union were made in perfect faith, the
universe would enter into it. Yet the special relationship the ego seeks does not
include even one whole individual. The ego wants but part of him, and sees only
this part and nothing else.
Across the bridge it is so different! For a time the body is still seen, but not
exclusively, as it is seen here. The little spark that holds the Great Rays
within it is also visible, and this spark cannot be limited long to littleness.
Once you have crossed the bridge, the value of the body is so diminished in your
sight that you will see no need at all to magnify it. For you will realize that
the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge
with you, and to be released together there."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 16, Section 6
4.
"You who are now the bringer of salvation have the function of bringing light to
darkness. The darkness in you has been brought to light. Carry it back to
darkness, from the holy instant to which you brought it. We are made whole in our
desire to make whole. Let not time worry you, for all the fear that you and your
brother experience is really past. Time has been readjusted to help us do,
together, what your separate pasts would hinder. You have gone past fear, for no
two minds can join in the desire for love without love's joining them.
Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. Not one Ray that shines forever in the
Mind of God but shines on you. Heaven is joined with you in your advance to
Heaven. When such great lights have joined with you to give the little spark of
your desire the power of God himself, can you remain in darkness? You are coming
home together, after a long and meaningless journey that you undertook apart, and
that led nowhere. You have found your brother, and you will light each other's
way. And from this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and
forward unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for his eternal
presence, in which everything is radiant in the light."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 3
5.
"Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son,
forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and
undisturbed within me. I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for
nowhere else can certainty be found. Peace be to me, and peace to all the world.
In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to
You in perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say "Amen."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 360
1.
"The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and
calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the
recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his
mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has
heard God's voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in
sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can shine into another,
because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it
is eternal.
In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God has kept
the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If you but
see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays are there
unseen. Perceiving the spark will heal, but knowing the light will create. Yet in
the returning the little light must be acknowledged first, for the separation was
a descent from magnitude to littleness. But the spark is still as pure as the
Great Light, because it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in
it, and God himself will answer you."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 10, Section 4 (5pdf)
2.
"As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the
Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them,
so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is
accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what
this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this
willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it
as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that
God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands.
Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready
now, but you are not.
Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking
straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. For it is
impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want.
The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. And
both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it
impossible. For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and
deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. Yet it remains the only
means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having
been established by God.
In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the
recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see
this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept
the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would
limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think it has a
purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its
purpose into accomplishment. This will never be accomplished. Yet you have
surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether unattainable, will
strive for them with all its might, and will do so with the strength that you have
given it.
It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego,
and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was
given you. Love would *always* give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego,
and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a
brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from
it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it
not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need
only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.
If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the
need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the
attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain
willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are
complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is
impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the
body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits
the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.
You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no
idea of all the loveliness that you could see. But this you must remember; the
attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God. His attraction for you remains
unlimited, but because your power, being His, is as great as His, you can turn
away from love. What you invest in guilt you withdraw from God. And your sight
grows weak and dim and limited, for you have attempted to separate the Father from
the Son, and limit their communication. Seek not Atonement in further separation.
And limit not your vision of God's Son to what interferes with his release, and
what the Holy Spirit must undo to set him free. For his belief in limits has
imprisoned him.
When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means
of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
thoughts will be as free as God's. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to
use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for
separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of
a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only
the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join him wholly, in an
instant. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could
ever want. All truth is here."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 9
3.
"The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. If you value it,
you must also value the body. And what you value you will keep. The special
relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your
perception of others to theirs. The Great Rays would establish the total lack of
value of the special relationship, if they were seen. For in seeing them the body
would disappear, because its value would be lost. And so your whole investment in
seeing it would be withdrawn from it.
You see the world you value. On this side of the bridge you see the world of
separate bodies, seeking to join each other in separate unions and to become one
by losing. When two individuals seek to become one, they are trying to decrease
their magnitude. Each would deny his power, for the separate union excludes the
universe. Far more is left outside than would be taken in, for God is left
without and nothing taken in. If one such union were made in perfect faith, the
universe would enter into it. Yet the special relationship the ego seeks does not
include even one whole individual. The ego wants but part of him, and sees only
this part and nothing else.
Across the bridge it is so different! For a time the body is still seen, but not
exclusively, as it is seen here. The little spark that holds the Great Rays
within it is also visible, and this spark cannot be limited long to littleness.
Once you have crossed the bridge, the value of the body is so diminished in your
sight that you will see no need at all to magnify it. For you will realize that
the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge
with you, and to be released together there."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 16, Section 6
4.
"You who are now the bringer of salvation have the function of bringing light to
darkness. The darkness in you has been brought to light. Carry it back to
darkness, from the holy instant to which you brought it. We are made whole in our
desire to make whole. Let not time worry you, for all the fear that you and your
brother experience is really past. Time has been readjusted to help us do,
together, what your separate pasts would hinder. You have gone past fear, for no
two minds can join in the desire for love without love's joining them.
Not one light in Heaven but goes with you. Not one Ray that shines forever in the
Mind of God but shines on you. Heaven is joined with you in your advance to
Heaven. When such great lights have joined with you to give the little spark of
your desire the power of God himself, can you remain in darkness? You are coming
home together, after a long and meaningless journey that you undertook apart, and
that led nowhere. You have found your brother, and you will light each other's
way. And from this light will the Great Rays extend back into darkness and
forward unto God, to shine away the past and so make room for his eternal
presence, in which everything is radiant in the light."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 18, Section 3
5.
"Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son,
forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and
undisturbed within me. I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for
nowhere else can certainty be found. Peace be to me, and peace to all the world.
In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to
You in perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say "Amen."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 360
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The Cornerstone Of God's Creation Is You, For His Thought System Is Light
"You make by projection, but God creates by extension. The cornerstone of God's
creation is you, for his thought system is light. Remember the rays that are
there unseen. The more you approach the center of his thought system, the clearer
the light becomes. The closer you come to the ego's thought system, the darker
and more obscure becomes the way. Yet even the little spark in your mind is
enough to lighten it. Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it
up to the foundation of the ego's thought system. Be willing to judge it with
perfect honesty. Open the dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring
it out into the light. There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and
that everything of which you have been afraid was based on nothing.
My brother, you are part of God and part of me. When you have at last looked at
the ego's foundation without shrinking you will also have looked upon ours. I
come to you from our Father to offer you everything again... I give you the lamp
and I will go with you... Will you not answer the call of love with joy?"
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Introduction (1pdf)
"You make by projection, but God creates by extension. The cornerstone of God's
creation is you, for his thought system is light. Remember the rays that are
there unseen. The more you approach the center of his thought system, the clearer
the light becomes. The closer you come to the ego's thought system, the darker
and more obscure becomes the way. Yet even the little spark in your mind is
enough to lighten it. Bring this light fearlessly with you, and bravely hold it
up to the foundation of the ego's thought system. Be willing to judge it with
perfect honesty. Open the dark cornerstone of terror on which it rests, and bring
it out into the light. There you will see that it rested on meaninglessness, and
that everything of which you have been afraid was based on nothing.
My brother, you are part of God and part of me. When you have at last looked at
the ego's foundation without shrinking you will also have looked upon ours. I
come to you from our Father to offer you everything again... I give you the lamp
and I will go with you... Will you not answer the call of love with joy?"
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Introduction (1pdf)
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Would You Know Of One Who Gives Forever, And Who Knows Of Nothing Except Giving?
"Hear me speak for God and for yourself. You cannot understand how much your
Father loves you, for there is no parallel in your experience of the world to help
you understand it. There is nothing on earth with which it can compare, and
nothing you have ever felt apart from Him resembles it ever so faintly.
Would you know of One Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?
You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and part of
him, are more than merely guiltless. The state of guiltlessness is only the
condition in which what is not there has been removed from the disordered mind
that thought it was. This state, and only this, must you attain... for until you
do, you will still think that you are separate from God.
When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be undone for
you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will give himself to you
as he has always done. Giving himself is all he knows, and so it is all
knowledge. For what he knows not, cannot be, and therefore cannot be given."
Would you know of One Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?
God created you out of himself, but still within him. He knows what you are.
Remember that there is no second to him. There cannot, therefore, be anyone
without his holiness, nor anyone unworthy of his perfect love."
Atonement does not teach you what you are, or what your Father is. The Holy
Spirit, Who remembers this for you, merely teaches you how to remove the blocks
that stand between you and what you know. So will he teach you to remove the
awful burden you have laid upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying
to teach him guilt instead of love. Give up this frantic and insane attempt that
cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking gladly to
his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you, making you one with him.
The Holy Spirit's memory is yours. Remembrance of reality is in him, and
therefore in you.
Communication with God is life."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
"Hear me speak for God and for yourself. You cannot understand how much your
Father loves you, for there is no parallel in your experience of the world to help
you understand it. There is nothing on earth with which it can compare, and
nothing you have ever felt apart from Him resembles it ever so faintly.
Would you know of One Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?
You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and part of
him, are more than merely guiltless. The state of guiltlessness is only the
condition in which what is not there has been removed from the disordered mind
that thought it was. This state, and only this, must you attain... for until you
do, you will still think that you are separate from God.
When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be undone for
you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will give himself to you
as he has always done. Giving himself is all he knows, and so it is all
knowledge. For what he knows not, cannot be, and therefore cannot be given."
Would you know of One Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?
God created you out of himself, but still within him. He knows what you are.
Remember that there is no second to him. There cannot, therefore, be anyone
without his holiness, nor anyone unworthy of his perfect love."
Atonement does not teach you what you are, or what your Father is. The Holy
Spirit, Who remembers this for you, merely teaches you how to remove the blocks
that stand between you and what you know. So will he teach you to remove the
awful burden you have laid upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying
to teach him guilt instead of love. Give up this frantic and insane attempt that
cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking gladly to
his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you, making you one with him.
The Holy Spirit's memory is yours. Remembrance of reality is in him, and
therefore in you.
Communication with God is life."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
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The Peace Of God
"When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will
last forever.
Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished
through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life,
and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because
it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome
death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at
all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, *it will not work* .
God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the
Kingdom. The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a
separation device, and therefore does not exist. The Holy Spirit, as always,
takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as
always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a
demonstration against it. If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal
the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle
demonstrates this."
- A Course in Miracles, "The Lessons of Love" Chapter 6; "To Have, Give All to
All" Section 6 (7pdf)
"Living is joy, but death can only weep. You see in death escape from what you
made. But this you do not see; that you made death, and it is but illusion of an
end. Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies.
Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because
you have decided death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that
everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is
real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our
practicing given its one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit's
whole curriculum specified exactly as it is."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 20, "What Is the Peace of God?"
"Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created
cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real."
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
"What is the peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His
Will is wholly without opposite. There is no thought that contradicts His Will,
yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 20, "What Is the Peace of God?"
"The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can
conceive, belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His
peace, and you remember Him."
"There is no will except the Will of Love."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 331
"When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will
last forever.
Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished
through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life,
and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because
it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome
death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at
all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, *it will not work* .
God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the
Kingdom. The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a
separation device, and therefore does not exist. The Holy Spirit, as always,
takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as
always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a
demonstration against it. If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal
the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle
demonstrates this."
- A Course in Miracles, "The Lessons of Love" Chapter 6; "To Have, Give All to
All" Section 6 (7pdf)
"Living is joy, but death can only weep. You see in death escape from what you
made. But this you do not see; that you made death, and it is but illusion of an
end. Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies.
Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because
you have decided death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that
everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is
real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our
practicing given its one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy Spirit's
whole curriculum specified exactly as it is."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 20, "What Is the Peace of God?"
"Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created
cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real."
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
"What is the peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His
Will is wholly without opposite. There is no thought that contradicts His Will,
yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 20, "What Is the Peace of God?"
"The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can
conceive, belong to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His
peace, and you remember Him."
"There is no will except the Will of Love."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 331
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The World Is Not Left By Death But By Truth - Life Is Peace - Awaken, And You Will
Find You Have The Peace Of God
"There is a risk of thinking death is peace, because the world equates the body
with the Self which God created.
Yet a thing can never be its opposite. And death is opposite to peace, because it
is the opposite of life. And life is peace."
"Awaken and forget all thoughts of death, and you will find you have the peace of
God."
- A Course in Miracles, "The Healing of the Dream" Chapter 27; "The Dreamer of the
dream" Section 7
"If death is real for anything, there is no life. Death denies life. But if
there is reality in life, death is denied. No compromise in this is possible.
There is either a god of fear or One of Love. The world attempts a thousand
compromises, and will attempt a thousand more. Not one can be acceptable to God's
teachers, because not one could be acceptable to God. He did not make death
because He did not make fear. Both are equally meaningless to Him."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 27, "What Is Death?"
"Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "There is no conflict, for my will is Yours."
Lesson 331
"The world is not left by death but by truth, and truth can be known by all those
for whom the Kingdom was created, and for whom it waits."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 3, Section 7
Find You Have The Peace Of God
"There is a risk of thinking death is peace, because the world equates the body
with the Self which God created.
Yet a thing can never be its opposite. And death is opposite to peace, because it
is the opposite of life. And life is peace."
"Awaken and forget all thoughts of death, and you will find you have the peace of
God."
- A Course in Miracles, "The Healing of the Dream" Chapter 27; "The Dreamer of the
dream" Section 7
"If death is real for anything, there is no life. Death denies life. But if
there is reality in life, death is denied. No compromise in this is possible.
There is either a god of fear or One of Love. The world attempts a thousand
compromises, and will attempt a thousand more. Not one can be acceptable to God's
teachers, because not one could be acceptable to God. He did not make death
because He did not make fear. Both are equally meaningless to Him."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 27, "What Is Death?"
"Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, "There is no conflict, for my will is Yours."
Lesson 331
"The world is not left by death but by truth, and truth can be known by all those
for whom the Kingdom was created, and for whom it waits."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 3, Section 7
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The Light Has Come - Forgiveness Entitles You To Vision
"The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. Understand that the Holy
Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. Believe He will
not fail you now. You have forgiven the world. He will be with you as you watch
and wait. He will show you what true vision sees. It is His Will, and you have
joined with Him. Wait patiently for Him. He will be there. The light has come.
You have forgiven the world.
Tell Him you know you cannot fail because you trust in Him. And tell yourself you
wait in certainty to look upon the world He promised you. From this time forth
you will see differently. Today the light has come. And you will see the world
that has been promised you since time began, and in which is the end of time ensured.
The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
The shorter practice periods, too, will be joyful reminders of your release.
Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so that today is a time for special
celebration. Give thanks for mercy and the Love of God. Rejoice in the power of
forgiveness to heal your sight completely. Be confident that on this day there is
a new beginning. Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes, you cannot fail
to see today. And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly extend
today forever.
Say, then:
The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
Should you be tempted, say to anyone who seems to pull you back into darkness:
The light has come.
I have forgiven you.
We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be. Keep it in
your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the
beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to
replace the unforgiven world you thought was real."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 75 "The Light Has Come"
"The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. Understand that the Holy
Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. Believe He will
not fail you now. You have forgiven the world. He will be with you as you watch
and wait. He will show you what true vision sees. It is His Will, and you have
joined with Him. Wait patiently for Him. He will be there. The light has come.
You have forgiven the world.
Tell Him you know you cannot fail because you trust in Him. And tell yourself you
wait in certainty to look upon the world He promised you. From this time forth
you will see differently. Today the light has come. And you will see the world
that has been promised you since time began, and in which is the end of time ensured.
The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
The shorter practice periods, too, will be joyful reminders of your release.
Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so that today is a time for special
celebration. Give thanks for mercy and the Love of God. Rejoice in the power of
forgiveness to heal your sight completely. Be confident that on this day there is
a new beginning. Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes, you cannot fail
to see today. And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly extend
today forever.
Say, then:
The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.
Should you be tempted, say to anyone who seems to pull you back into darkness:
The light has come.
I have forgiven you.
We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be. Keep it in
your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the
beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world, which has come to
replace the unforgiven world you thought was real."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 75 "The Light Has Come"
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On 2/8/2020 10:31 PM, course zealot wrote:
> When you save the present, you save the past,
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> So that Jesus came up with this concept, that the instant the separation occurred,
> God's answer was given to it. That instant is this instant.
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> So you were just looking at darkness, and now you're not. And you never were.
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> You will attain God's peace, and remember him. It's just a question of when:
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> "God is inevitable."
>
> "Behold, now *is* the accepted time; behold, now *is* the day of salvation."
> - Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 6:2b
>
>
> "48. The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling
> time. Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 1
>
> The light you see in your mind is timeless, and connects across time. To see the
> light now, is to see the light you saw in the past. To see the light now, is to
> see the light you saw in the future. See the light now.
>
>
> "Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as
> separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity, where all is one, there
> crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his
> forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both
> accomplishment and real effects. Together, we can laugh them both away, and
> understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that
> time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 27, Section 8
>
> "Just as the separation occurred over millions of years, the Last Judgment will
> extend over a similarly long period, and perhaps an even longer one. Its length
> can, however, be greatly shortened by miracles, the device for shortening but not
> abolishing time. If a sufficient number become truly miracle-minded, this
> shortening process can be virtually immeasurable. It is essential, however, that
> you free yourself quickly, because you must emerge from the conflict if you are to
> bring peace to other minds."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, Section 9
>
> So "A Course in Miracles" is saying all this isn't real, and then it's saying it
> is huh? Is it all my dream; or are there others "out there?" What is up with
> People Problems? Health and wealth problems, one can believe Miracles can solve
> expeditiously. But what is the analytical religious scientific theory on people
> problems? "Solipsism" - my dream, as "A Course in Miracles" says? Or "Duality,"
> as "A Course in Miracles" apparently says above? What of someone meditating on
> peace, being slapped in the face? I think when you manifest love, you shine away
> your adversary's error; for the fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your
> own mind_. There is no error. But I'm not sure how this applies completely when
> someone declares war or takes violence on you.
>
>
> "Birth was not the beginning, and death is not the end"
>
> "The emphasis of this course always remains the same;--it is at this moment that
> complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept
> it. This is still your one responsibility."
> - Manual for Teachers, Section 24, Is Reincarnation So?
> When you save the present, you save the past,
>
> So that Jesus came up with this concept, that the instant the separation occurred,
> God's answer was given to it. That instant is this instant.
>
> So you were just looking at darkness, and now you're not. And you never were.
>
>
> You will attain God's peace, and remember him. It's just a question of when:
>
>
> Now.
>
>
>
> Or now.
>
>
>
> Or now.
>
>
>
> Or now.
>
>
> "God is inevitable."
> "The word "inevitable" is fearful to the ego, but joyous to the spirit."
> In Truth you are Spirit.
>
> "Behold, now *is* the accepted time; behold, now *is* the day of salvation."
> - Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 6:2b
>
>
> "48. The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling
> time. Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 1
>
> The light you see in your mind is timeless, and connects across time. To see the
> light now, is to see the light you saw in the past. To see the light now, is to
> see the light you saw in the future. See the light now.
>
>
> "Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as
> separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity, where all is one, there
> crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his
> forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both
> accomplishment and real effects. Together, we can laugh them both away, and
> understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that
> time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 27, Section 8
>
> "Just as the separation occurred over millions of years, the Last Judgment will
> extend over a similarly long period, and perhaps an even longer one. Its length
> can, however, be greatly shortened by miracles, the device for shortening but not
> abolishing time. If a sufficient number become truly miracle-minded, this
> shortening process can be virtually immeasurable. It is essential, however, that
> you free yourself quickly, because you must emerge from the conflict if you are to
> bring peace to other minds."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, Section 9
>
> So "A Course in Miracles" is saying all this isn't real, and then it's saying it
> is huh? Is it all my dream; or are there others "out there?" What is up with
> People Problems? Health and wealth problems, one can believe Miracles can solve
> expeditiously. But what is the analytical religious scientific theory on people
> problems? "Solipsism" - my dream, as "A Course in Miracles" says? Or "Duality,"
> as "A Course in Miracles" apparently says above? What of someone meditating on
> peace, being slapped in the face? I think when you manifest love, you shine away
> your adversary's error; for the fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your
> own mind_. There is no error. But I'm not sure how this applies completely when
> someone declares war or takes violence on you.
>
>
> "Birth was not the beginning, and death is not the end"
>
> "The emphasis of this course always remains the same;--it is at this moment that
> complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept
> it. This is still your one responsibility."
> - Manual for Teachers, Section 24, Is Reincarnation So?
Miracles Are Seen In Light
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On 2/8/2020 10:39 PM, course zealot wrote:
> "Life is but a flash in the pan, and yet eternity is found in a single instant."
> - The Buddha + A Course Student,
>
>
> "47. The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. It
> establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. In
> this sense it is timeless."
> out-of-pattern time interval, the ordinary considerations of time and space do not
> apply. When you perform a miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust
> to it." [???? - only place mentioned in book]
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, Section 6
>
>
> "The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than
> is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle worker,
> therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly. He recognizes that every
> collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time, in
> which the Son and the Father are One."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 5
> "Life is but a flash in the pan, and yet eternity is found in a single instant."
> - The Buddha + A Course Student,
>
>
> "47. The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. It
> establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. In
> this sense it is timeless."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 1
>
> "1. The miracle abolishes the need for lower-order concerns. Since it is an
>
> out-of-pattern time interval, the ordinary considerations of time and space do not
> apply. When you perform a miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust
> to it." [???? - only place mentioned in book]
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, Section 6
>
>
> "The basic decision of the miracle-minded is not to wait on time any longer than
> is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle worker,
> therefore, accepts the time-control factor gladly. He recognizes that every
> collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time, in
> which the Son and the Father are One."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 1, Section 5
Miracles Are Seen In Light
Feb 3, 2022, 3:01:32 AM2/3/22
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On 2/9/2020 1:54 PM, course zealot wrote:
> "All that the ego is, is an idea that it is possible that things should happen to
> the Son of God without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose
> Will cannot be separate from his own. This is the Son of God's replacement for
> his will, a mad revolt against what must forever be. This is the statement that
> he has the power to make God powerless and so to take it for himself, and leave
> himself without what God has willed for him. This is the mad idea you have
> enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship. And everything that threatens
> this seems to attack your faith, for here is it invested. Think not that you are
> faithless, for your belief and trust in this is strong indeed."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 3, "The Responsibility for Sight"
>
> "Your will be done, you holy child of God. It does not matter if you think you
> are in earth or Heaven. What your Father wills of you can never change. The
> truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love
> itself. And you are worthy that your will be done!"
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 31, Section 6
>
> "God, being Love, is also happiness."
> - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 103
>
> "Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone
> must recognize himself. This recognition is the recognition that his will and
> God's are one. In the presence of truth, there are no unbelievers and no
> sacrifices. In the security of reality, fear is totally meaningless. To deny
> what is can only seem to be fearful. Fear cannot be real without a cause, and God
> is the only Cause. God is Love and you do want him. This is your will. Ask for
> this and you will be answered, because you will be asking only for what belongs to
> you."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1
>
> "The projection of the ego makes it appear as if God's Will is outside yourself,
> and therefore not yours. In this interpretation it seems possible for God's Will
> and yours to conflict. God, then, may seem to demand of you what you do not want
> to give, and thus deprive you of what you want. Would God, Who wants only your
> will, be capable of this? Your will is his life, which he has given to you. Even
> in time you cannot live apart from him. Sleep is not death. What he created can
> sleep, but cannot die. Immortality is his will for his Son, and his Son's will
> for himself. God's Son cannot will death for himself because his Father is life,
> and his Son is like him. Creation is your will *because* it is his."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Section 1, (2pdf)
>
> "When you accepted the Holy Spirit's purpose in place of the ego's you renounced
> death, exchanging it for life. We know that an idea leaves not its source. And
> death is the result of the thought we call the ego, as surely as life is the
> result of the Thought of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 9
>
> The idea of God, has no meaning, apart from you.
>
> "The world you perceive is a world of separation. Perhaps you are willing to
> accept even death to deny your Father. Yet he would not have it so, and so it is
> not so. You still cannot will against him, and that is why you have no control
> over the world you made. It is not a world of will because it is governed by the
> desire to be unlike God, and this desire is not will. The world you made is
> therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless "laws," and without
> meaning of any kind. For it is made out of what you do not want, projected from
> your mind because you are afraid of it. Yet this world is only in the mind of its
> maker, along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself,
> for only by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do
> have control over your mind, since the mind is the mechanism of decision.
>
> If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and
> nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must
> end. For in this same place also lies salvation.
>
> The altar of God where Christ abideth is there. You have defiled the altar, but
> not the world. Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring
> your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There
> you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From
> this place, where God and his Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you
> will look out in peace and behold the world truly.
>
> Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you
> project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the
> altar of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7
>
> "If you will recognize that all the attack [disagreement] you perceive is in your
> own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it
> begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation.
> ...Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you
> _project_ it, allowing [Your] Holy Spirit to _extend_ the real world to you from
> the altar of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, "The Holy Spirit's Curriculum" Chapter 12; "The
> Investment in Reality" Section 3
>
> "Possession is very closely related to projection. “Lucifer” could be
> literally translated “Light Bearer.” He literally PROJECTED himself from Heaven.
> Projection still has this “hurling” connotation, because it involves hurling
> something you DO NOT want, and regard as dangerous and frightening, to someone
> else. This is the opposite of the Golden Rule, and having placed this rule upside
> down, the reverse of miracles, or projection, follows automatically.)"
> "Possession really means “Not under Christ‐Control”, thus making him (the
> mind?) vulnerable to projection. The references to the earth‐bound entering
> bodies really refer to the “taking over” by their own earth‐bound “thoughts.” This
> IS Demon Possession. After all, Lucifer fell, but he was still an angel. He is
> thus the symbol for man. Atonement is the knowledge that the belief that angels
> can fall is false."
> "remember that error cannot really threaten Truth, which ALWAYS can withstand
> its assaults. ONLY the error is really vulnerable."
> “Casting spells” merely means “affirming error”, and error is lack of love.
> When man projects this onto others, he DOES imprison them, but only to the extent
> that he reinforces errors they have already made. This distortion makes them
> vulnerable to the curse of others, since they have already cursed themselves. The
> miracle worker can only bless [*extend*], and this undoes the curse and frees the
> soul from prison."
> - A Course in Miracles, Unedited URTEXT, pages 22-24, Combined Version pages 30-33
>
> "I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one
> or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out.
> As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. And then you look out and
> behold his witnesses. This is why you find what you seek. What you want in
> yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the world because you
> put it there by wanting it. When you think you are projecting what you do not
> want, it is still because you *do* want it. This leads directly to dissociation,
> for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived in a different
> place; separated from each other because you made them different. The mind then
> sees a divided world outside itself, but not within. This gives it an illusion of
> integrity, and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. Yet as long as
> you perceive the world as split, you are not healed. For to be healed is to
> pursue one goal, because you have accepted only one and want but one.
> When you want only love you will see nothing else. The contradictory nature of
> the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting
> invitations. You have looked upon your mind and accepted opposition there, having
> sought it there. But do not then believe that the witnesses for opposition are
> true, for they attest only to your decision about reality, returning to you the
> messages you gave them. Love, too, is recognized by its messengers. If you make
> love manifest, its messengers will come to you because you invited them."
> Ch.12, Sec.7 - The Holy Spirit's Curriculum
> it be, if God's Kingdom is freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any
> kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the
> dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the
> Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4
>
> "the advanced teachers of God... see no will as separate from their own, nor
> theirs as separate from God's."
> - Manual for Teachers, Section 5, How Is Healing Accomplished?
>
> We're all supposed to be totally willful, and not jack others.
>
>
> If Solipsism *was* the truth, and you said that it wasn't, it certainly wouldn't
> _be_, would _it_? But you say they hit you first hmm? But thought precedes
> action and:
>
> "There is another vision and another voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting
> your choice. And if you place your faith in them, you will perceive another self
> in you. This other self sees miracles as natural. They are as simple and as
> natural to it as breathing to the body. They are the obvious response to calls
> for help, the only one it makes. Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it
> does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor *could* they
> do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other self is perfectly aware of this.
> And thus it recognizes that miracles do not affect another's mind, only its own.
> They always change *your* mind. There is no other."
> - A Course in Miracles, "Reason and Perception" Chapter 21, "The Function of
> Reason" Section 5
> "You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has
> interfered with reason."
>
> "for now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face"
> - 1 Corinthians 13:12
>
> when the figure in the mirror moves, who moved? To control actions we must
> control thoughts.
>
> I'm...
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
>
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
>
> When you get to the point that you "perceive another self in you," it is not as if
> "outside," like separate from you and the ego, which is merely the thought of
> separation. But...
>
> there *is* One Self which runs through all things.
>
> How do you reconcile duality.
>
>
> Someone who hates themselves is communicating with me, and making me hate myself.
> Therefore making me think like him. The murderous are suicidal, and the suicidal
> are murderous. To respond to them in kind is to become murderous and suicidal.
>
> How do I stop someone from communicating with me? How do I stop someone from
> hitting me in the face? How do I control other's thoughts and therefore other's
> movements?
>
> Someone is making me think like him and hate myself like he hates himself.
>
> To know him is to hate him?? Irregardless, I don't want to know him.
>
>
> What is the analytical religious scientific theory on people problems? "Solipsism"
> _be_, would _it_? Moses was using war miracles, but Moses was therefore still
> getting jacked by the Egyptians. But you say they hit you first hmm? But that
> was in the past? Now you just say "oh that's not going to be," and you're not
> afraid? _But they attack you_, and apparently they mean to attack you? But you
> can change their minds with your minds if you overcome the world in your mind? Is
> this really the analytical theory?? We need the answers or we'll just be murdered
> like so many Saints murdered gruesomely throughout the ages...
>
>
> For what is salvation, but to overcome the world, or to know God, or both. And
> what is to overcome the world, but to overcome health, wealth, and people
> problems. Since the foundation of the world, only health, wealth and people
> problems have plagued mankind. If you don't overcome the world, then the world
> overcomes you. But when Jesus says in the Bible, and in A Course in Miracles, "Be
> of good cheer, for I have overcome the world," does he mean to say he has overcome
> people problems as well?
>
> I mean, sure, he loves you. He loves them. But has he overcome the world, when
> they won't let him live? How do you explain this. The Nazi says "God is not here
> today," just before he shoots the Jew in front of you (and Jesus was Jewish), but
> you say, "what motivates you," why get up in the morning. Why didn't the Stoneman
> Douglas killer just stay in bed that day. "Why not just, walk away Nazi," "Let's
> have a nicer time over there." "Put that razor blade away, and stop cutting
> yourself, stop self-harming."
>
> The Children of the Corn need better direction. The boys in William Golding's
> book "The Lord of the Flies," need to meditate, find peace, and look to the light
> within.
>
> This light within gives infinite power and happiness...
>
>
> https://tinyurl.com/Course-In-Miracles-Urtext-pdf
> https://tinyurl.com/ACIM-Urtext-Text-pdf
>
http://www.miraclesinactionpress.com/dthomp74/2008/TOOLBOX/Original%20Versions/FIP.htm
>
> https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
> https://www.biblegateway.com/
> "All that the ego is, is an idea that it is possible that things should happen to
> the Son of God without his will; and thus without the Will of his Creator, Whose
> Will cannot be separate from his own. This is the Son of God's replacement for
> his will, a mad revolt against what must forever be. This is the statement that
> he has the power to make God powerless and so to take it for himself, and leave
> himself without what God has willed for him. This is the mad idea you have
> enshrined upon your altars, and which you worship. And everything that threatens
> this seems to attack your faith, for here is it invested. Think not that you are
> faithless, for your belief and trust in this is strong indeed."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 21, Section 3, "The Responsibility for Sight"
>
> "Your will be done, you holy child of God. It does not matter if you think you
> are in earth or Heaven. What your Father wills of you can never change. The
> truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love
> itself. And you are worthy that your will be done!"
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 31, Section 6
>
> "God, being Love, is also happiness."
> - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 103
>
> "Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone
> must recognize himself. This recognition is the recognition that his will and
> God's are one. In the presence of truth, there are no unbelievers and no
> sacrifices. In the security of reality, fear is totally meaningless. To deny
> what is can only seem to be fearful. Fear cannot be real without a cause, and God
> is the only Cause. God is Love and you do want him. This is your will. Ask for
> this and you will be answered, because you will be asking only for what belongs to
> you."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1
>
> "The projection of the ego makes it appear as if God's Will is outside yourself,
> and therefore not yours. In this interpretation it seems possible for God's Will
> and yours to conflict. God, then, may seem to demand of you what you do not want
> to give, and thus deprive you of what you want. Would God, Who wants only your
> will, be capable of this? Your will is his life, which he has given to you. Even
> in time you cannot live apart from him. Sleep is not death. What he created can
> sleep, but cannot die. Immortality is his will for his Son, and his Son's will
> for himself. God's Son cannot will death for himself because his Father is life,
> and his Son is like him. Creation is your will *because* it is his."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 11, Section 1, (2pdf)
>
> "When you accepted the Holy Spirit's purpose in place of the ego's you renounced
> death, exchanging it for life. We know that an idea leaves not its source. And
> death is the result of the thought we call the ego, as surely as life is the
> result of the Thought of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 19, Section 9
>
> The idea of God, has no meaning, apart from you.
>
> "The world you perceive is a world of separation. Perhaps you are willing to
> accept even death to deny your Father. Yet he would not have it so, and so it is
> not so. You still cannot will against him, and that is why you have no control
> over the world you made. It is not a world of will because it is governed by the
> desire to be unlike God, and this desire is not will. The world you made is
> therefore totally chaotic, governed by arbitrary and senseless "laws," and without
> meaning of any kind. For it is made out of what you do not want, projected from
> your mind because you are afraid of it. Yet this world is only in the mind of its
> maker, along with his real salvation. Do not believe it is outside of yourself,
> for only by recognizing where it is will you gain control over it. For you do
> have control over your mind, since the mind is the mechanism of decision.
>
> If you will recognize that all the attack you perceive is in your own mind and
> nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it begins it must
> end. For in this same place also lies salvation.
>
> The altar of God where Christ abideth is there. You have defiled the altar, but
> not the world. Yet Christ has placed the Atonement on the altar for you. Bring
> your perceptions of the world to this altar, for it is the altar to truth. There
> you will see your vision changed, and there you will learn to see truly. From
> this place, where God and his Son dwell in peace and where you are welcome, you
> will look out in peace and behold the world truly.
>
> Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you
> project it, allowing the Holy Spirit to extend the real world to you from the
> altar of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 12, Section 7
>
> "If you will recognize that all the attack [disagreement] you perceive is in your
> own mind and nowhere else, you will at last have placed its source, and where it
> begins it must end. For in this same place also lies salvation.
> ...Yet to find the place, you must relinquish your investment in the world as you
> _project_ it, allowing [Your] Holy Spirit to _extend_ the real world to you from
> the altar of God."
> - A Course in Miracles, "The Holy Spirit's Curriculum" Chapter 12; "The
> Investment in Reality" Section 3
>
> "Possession is very closely related to projection. “Lucifer” could be
> literally translated “Light Bearer.” He literally PROJECTED himself from Heaven.
> Projection still has this “hurling” connotation, because it involves hurling
> something you DO NOT want, and regard as dangerous and frightening, to someone
> else. This is the opposite of the Golden Rule, and having placed this rule upside
> down, the reverse of miracles, or projection, follows automatically.)"
> "Possession really means “Not under Christ‐Control”, thus making him (the
> mind?) vulnerable to projection. The references to the earth‐bound entering
> bodies really refer to the “taking over” by their own earth‐bound “thoughts.” This
> IS Demon Possession. After all, Lucifer fell, but he was still an angel. He is
> thus the symbol for man. Atonement is the knowledge that the belief that angels
> can fall is false."
> "remember that error cannot really threaten Truth, which ALWAYS can withstand
> its assaults. ONLY the error is really vulnerable."
> “Casting spells” merely means “affirming error”, and error is lack of love.
> When man projects this onto others, he DOES imprison them, but only to the extent
> that he reinforces errors they have already made. This distortion makes them
> vulnerable to the curse of others, since they have already cursed themselves. The
> miracle worker can only bless [*extend*], and this undoes the curse and frees the
> soul from prison."
> - A Course in Miracles, Unedited URTEXT, pages 22-24, Combined Version pages 30-33
>
> "I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one
> or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out.
> As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. And then you look out and
> behold his witnesses. This is why you find what you seek. What you want in
> yourself you will make manifest, and you will accept it from the world because you
> put it there by wanting it. When you think you are projecting what you do not
> want, it is still because you *do* want it. This leads directly to dissociation,
> for it represents the acceptance of two goals, each perceived in a different
> place; separated from each other because you made them different. The mind then
> sees a divided world outside itself, but not within. This gives it an illusion of
> integrity, and enables it to believe that it is pursuing one goal. Yet as long as
> you perceive the world as split, you are not healed. For to be healed is to
> pursue one goal, because you have accepted only one and want but one.
> When you want only love you will see nothing else. The contradictory nature of
> the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting
> invitations. You have looked upon your mind and accepted opposition there, having
> sought it there. But do not then believe that the witnesses for opposition are
> true, for they attest only to your decision about reality, returning to you the
> messages you gave them. Love, too, is recognized by its messengers. If you make
> love manifest, its messengers will come to you because you invited them."
> Ch.12, Sec.7 - The Holy Spirit's Curriculum
>
> "There is no will except the Will of Love."
> - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 331
>
> "I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching. How else can
> "There is no will except the Will of Love."
> - A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 331
>
> it be, if God's Kingdom is freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any
> kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the
> dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the
> Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
> - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4
>
> "the advanced teachers of God... see no will as separate from their own, nor
> theirs as separate from God's."
> - Manual for Teachers, Section 5, How Is Healing Accomplished?
>
> We're all supposed to be totally willful, and not jack others.
>
>
> If Solipsism *was* the truth, and you said that it wasn't, it certainly wouldn't
> _be_, would _it_? But you say they hit you first hmm? But thought precedes
> action and:
>
> "There is another vision and another voice in which your freedom lies, awaiting
> your choice. And if you place your faith in them, you will perceive another self
> in you. This other self sees miracles as natural. They are as simple and as
> natural to it as breathing to the body. They are the obvious response to calls
> for help, the only one it makes. Miracles seem unnatural to the ego because it
> does not understand how separate minds can influence each other. Nor *could* they
> do so. But minds cannot be separate. This other self is perfectly aware of this.
> And thus it recognizes that miracles do not affect another's mind, only its own.
> They always change *your* mind. There is no other."
> - A Course in Miracles, "Reason and Perception" Chapter 21, "The Function of
> Reason" Section 5
> "You do not realize the whole extent to which the idea of separation has
> interfered with reason."
>
> "for now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face"
> - 1 Corinthians 13:12
>
> when the figure in the mirror moves, who moved? To control actions we must
> control thoughts.
>
> I'm...
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
>
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
> thinking you thinking me, thinking you thinking me,
>
> When you get to the point that you "perceive another self in you," it is not as if
> "outside," like separate from you and the ego, which is merely the thought of
> separation. But...
>
> there *is* One Self which runs through all things.
>
> How do you reconcile duality.
>
>
> Someone who hates themselves is communicating with me, and making me hate myself.
> Therefore making me think like him. The murderous are suicidal, and the suicidal
> are murderous. To respond to them in kind is to become murderous and suicidal.
>
> How do I stop someone from communicating with me? How do I stop someone from
> hitting me in the face? How do I control other's thoughts and therefore other's
> movements?
>
> Someone is making me think like him and hate myself like he hates himself.
>
> To know him is to hate him?? Irregardless, I don't want to know him.
>
>
> What is the analytical religious scientific theory on people problems? "Solipsism"
> - my dream, as "A Course in Miracles" says? Or "Duality," as "A Course in
> Miracles" apparently says elsewhere? What of someone meditating on peace, being
> slapped in the face? I think when you manifest love, you shine away your
> adversary's error; for the fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your own
> mind_. There is no error. But I'm not sure how this applies completely when
> someone declares war or takes violence on you.
>
> I think when you manifest love, you shine away your adversary's error; for the
> fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your own mind_. There is no error.
>
> If Solipsism *was* the truth, and you said that it wasn't, it certainly wouldn't
> adversary's error; for the fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your own
> mind_. There is no error. But I'm not sure how this applies completely when
> someone declares war or takes violence on you.
>
> I think when you manifest love, you shine away your adversary's error; for the
> fact is "his" error is merely and only in _your own mind_. There is no error.
>
> _be_, would _it_? Moses was using war miracles, but Moses was therefore still
> getting jacked by the Egyptians. But you say they hit you first hmm? But that
> was in the past? Now you just say "oh that's not going to be," and you're not
> afraid? _But they attack you_, and apparently they mean to attack you? But you
> can change their minds with your minds if you overcome the world in your mind? Is
> this really the analytical theory?? We need the answers or we'll just be murdered
> like so many Saints murdered gruesomely throughout the ages...
>
>
> For what is salvation, but to overcome the world, or to know God, or both. And
> what is to overcome the world, but to overcome health, wealth, and people
> problems. Since the foundation of the world, only health, wealth and people
> problems have plagued mankind. If you don't overcome the world, then the world
> overcomes you. But when Jesus says in the Bible, and in A Course in Miracles, "Be
> of good cheer, for I have overcome the world," does he mean to say he has overcome
> people problems as well?
>
> I mean, sure, he loves you. He loves them. But has he overcome the world, when
> they won't let him live? How do you explain this. The Nazi says "God is not here
> today," just before he shoots the Jew in front of you (and Jesus was Jewish), but
> you say, "what motivates you," why get up in the morning. Why didn't the Stoneman
> Douglas killer just stay in bed that day. "Why not just, walk away Nazi," "Let's
> have a nicer time over there." "Put that razor blade away, and stop cutting
> yourself, stop self-harming."
>
> The Children of the Corn need better direction. The boys in William Golding's
> book "The Lord of the Flies," need to meditate, find peace, and look to the light
> within.
>
> This light within gives infinite power and happiness...
>
>
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