November 28, 2017
What does the world you inhabit look like? How does it appear to you? Is it a world filled with light and love or is it filled with darkness and heaviness? Take a good look at what you think you see. Decide if this is where you really want to be. Perhaps the world you see appears as a dark bank of clouds, dense and forbidding, blocking out even the light of the sun from sight. The world we see appears substantial and permanent, impenetrable. Yet, its solidity and permanence has no substance – it is merely temporal, an illusion. The Course tells us this about the world we think we see:
Yet in this cloud bank it is easy to see a whole world rising. A solid mountain range, a lake, a city, all rise in your imagination, and from the clouds the messengers of your perception return to you, assuring you that it is there. Figures stand out and move about, actions seem real, and forms appear and shift from loveliness to the grotesque. And back and forth they go, as long as you would play the game of children’s make-believe. Yet however long you play it, and regardless of how much imagination you bring to it, you do not confuse it with the world below, nor seek to make it real. T-18.IX.7:1-5
Deep beneath and beyond this world is another world free of the dark and heavy clouds appearing before us. We needn’t fret about these dark and dreary clouds before us. They have no substance except that which we give them by believing they are real. While we are engulfed in this world and all it seems to surround us with, there is another world, another reality that has never left us. It remains within us filled with love and light, waiting for us to tire of the darkness and heaviness and turn to our Guide to lead us into the awareness of its light ad love. Let your Guide teach you the dark cloud’s unsubstantial nature as your Guide leads you past them, for beyond them is a world of light whereupon they cast no shadows. Their shadows lie upon the world still further from the light. Yet from them to the light their shadows cannot fall.
This world of light, this circle of brightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. Here there is no attack upon the One Child of Oneness, and you are welcome. Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. T-18.IX.9:1-7
You are ready to leave this dark world behind and step into the world of light. We step from the world of shadows into the light with our brothers and sisters. It is when we allow our relationships to be healed or made whole through forgiveness – the messenger of love – that we find ourselves standing in the brilliant light of Oneness. This is the holy instant in which we are united with each other and lifts us gently far above the darkness to the light of Oneness. As we are lifted gently beyond the shadows, only what is untrue is removed and we are left with only bright and true perception. This is our purpose now. And peace awaits us here in this real world. Chose this world of Oneness and light and love now.
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