November 6, 2012

This section talks about how separation came to be and what it really is, though it is not real.  To understand separation, we need to understand something about who we really are and at least be willing to entertain that truth.  We are God’s creation, an extension of God.  We are created with all that God is within us.  That creation is the essence of our being.  We have all the power of creation that God has.  And we hold, in partnership with God and each other, all the power and love of the universe.  In a nutshell, we are created perfect.  And there is no emptiness in us.  As God created us, we also have free will to create as God does.

The ability to create is inherent in all of us, and cannot be lost.  However the ability to create can be used inappropriately when we project rather than extend.  This inappropriate use of extension, or projection, happens when we believe there is some emptiness or lack within us that we think we can fill with our own misperceived ideas rather than truth.  This belief that we have any kind of lack or that we have needs that must be filled from outside ourselves is the cause of our idea of a separate self that we see as lacking.  None of this existed before separation and it certainly doesn’t exist now even, though it seems very real to us.  God’s creation is always whole and perfect and it cannot be otherwise.  But we can think and believe it otherwise and be thrust into a world of illusion and fear.

Look at the 4 steps outlined in paragraph 2 of this section and see how we have led ourselves to a misperceived existence of separation, unaware of who we really are because of a simple error of perception.  We have simply believed an untrue thought and built our illusory world on that thought and all the other misperceived thoughts since that first one.  We are simply dreaming a dream in a spiritual sleep from which we haven’t awakened.  Perhaps it’s time we awaken from that dream

The Atonement is the escape for this misperceived illusory world we seem to be caught in.  It is the awakening from the dream f this world we have mistakenly made up.  The dream certainly seems to be real and not made up, but we have not been looking at it from an awakened spirit mind.  We’ve been looking through the distorted lens of separation and thus fear.  Miracles are the release from this world of illusion.  They are freely given to us, in fact are always within us.  These miracles show us a new thought, a correction of thought that opens our spirit vision and shows us the reality of who we really are.  The awareness of our connection to God through extension brings an awareness of peace deep within us.  It brings the extension of Love flooding through us in such abundant waves it cannot be contained or held on to, but floods forth to all we encounter and beyond.  This is all within each and every one of us.  This is the Divine core of our being.  It can never be lost or taken away.  The truth abbot ourselves is there for the seeing.  Open your eyes, that you may see.  You will find the truth about yourself and rejoice in that truth.