A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-14.VIII The Holy Meeting Place

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We are truly whole. We are truly complete. We are innocent and sinless. We are truly the divine beings we are created to be. Nothing of that has changed. The only thing that has changed is that we have shrouded our awareness of our innocence in a dark denial of who we really are. We believed the mistaken idea that we are limited and powerless. We closed the doors to the awareness of our true essence and shrouded our minds in darkness. The closed doors shut out nothing. Neither do the shrouds of darkness hide anything. They merely seem to hide something that is not really there. All it succeeds in doing is interfering with the power and light that shine within us. Yet, we can choose to let all that would hide who and what we really are be brought to Spirit to be undone and released. Spirit is capable of guiding us through this process, for Spirit holds the memory of our true essence for us in our right mind. Our right mind, One with the Mind of the One, is within us waiting for us to allow the doors of separation to be flung open allowing our own light and power to flood into that little corner of our mind we had closed off.

The holy altar within us stands strong. It stands shared by our Source and our true Self, never having split. Yet we cluttered this holy place within us with all the dark hidden ideas that made the barriers to our awareness of our true being. None of these ideas altered who we are but they did succeed in blocking our awareness of who we are. We have so engrained these ideas in our minds that we can’t see beyond them anymore to the truth about ourselves. We have essentially hidden ourselves from ourselves in full view of ourselves! It’s time we opened our eyes to the divine truth about ourselves. And though we have lost sight of how to do this, Spirit is within us waiting to guide us to the awareness of the divine essence we are. The holy meeting place is within us. We are that holy place. We are that divine essence.

Let your mind wander not through darkened corridors, away from light’s center. You and your another may choose to lead yourselves astray, but you can be brought together only by the Guide appointed for you. This Guide will surely lead you to where God and the real You await your recognition. They are joined in giving you the gift of oneness, before which all separation vanishes. Unite with what you are. You cannot join with anything except reality. God’s glory and Yours belong to you in truth. They have no opposite, and nothing else can you bestow upon yourself.   T-14.VIII.3.1-8

Awaken. Open your eyes to the reality of the divine You. There is no substitution for this truth. Allow yourself to be brought with gentle understanding out of the place of unknowingness to knowingness. This is the place you meet with truth. In this holy meeting place, we are joined – God, Us and our Creations – all of Them together as One. This is the one link that holds us in the awareness of our Oneness.

The link with which the One joins to those the One gives the power to create can never be dissolved. Heaven itself is union with all of creation, and with its one Creator. And Heaven remains the Will of the One for you. Lay no gifts other than this upon your altars, for nothing can coexist with it. Here your little offerings are brought together with the gift of the One, and only what is worthy of the One will be accepted by the real You, for whom it is intended.         T-14.VIII.5.1-5

The ultimate gift we will find on the altar is the awareness of who we really are – Divine Oneness. Accept this gift in the holy meeting place within you.

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