January 29, 2019
We have discussed reason in the previous chapter and earlier in this chapter. Reason is an incorruptible tool that is already within us and is protected from the egoic thought system we made up to support the idea of separation. Reason will guide our mind to correct thinking if we will turn our attention away from our egoic thought system to the Vision within us, for reason and the egoic thought system cannot coexist in our awareness. Reason’s goal is to make plain, and therefore obvious. We can see reason. This is not a play on words, for here is the beginning of vision that has meaning. Vision is literally sense. For it is plain, and what is obvious is not ambiguous. Vision, as Reason, can be understood. And here do reason and the ego separate, to go their separate ways.
The ego’s whole continuance depends on its belief you cannot learn this course. Share this belief, and reason will be unable to see your errors and make way for their correction. For reason sees through errors, telling you what you thought was real is not. Reason can see the difference between sin and mistakes, because it wants correction. Therefore, it tells you what you thought was uncorrectable can be corrected, and thus it must have been an error. The ego’s opposition to correction leads to its fixed belief in sin and disregard of errors. It looks on nothing that can be corrected. Thus does the ego damn, and reason save. T-22.III.2:1-7
Reason understands that sin is not real except that it can serve as a block to the awareness of the peace that surrounds us always. Reason makes way for peace and brings us to a state of mind in which healing can be given to us. Our belief in sin is a block, set like a heavy locked gate across the road to peace. No one who looks on it without the help of reason would dare try to pass it. The body’s eyes perceive it as solid granite, so thick it would be madness to attempt to pass it. Yet reason sees through it easily, because it is an error. The form this blockade takes cannot conceal its emptiness from reason’s eyes. Reason, when we choose to see it, always looks beyond the appearance of whatever stands in the way to our own awareness of peace in our lives.
Our egoic thought system is attracted only to the form of error. It does not recognize meaning or see whether or not meaning is even there. Everything we see with the body’s eyes is a mistake, an error in perception, a distorted fragment of the whole without the meaning that the whole would give. Yet mistakes, regardless of their form, can be corrected. Our egoic thought system is invested in keeping those mistakes seeming real to reinforce the blocks to peace it has placed in our minds.
Reason will tell you that the form of error is not what makes it a mistake. If what the form conceals is a mistake, the form cannot prevent correction. The body’s eyes see only form. They cannot see beyond what they were made to see. And they were made to look on error and not see past it. Theirs is indeed a strange perception, for they can see only illusions, unable to look beyond the granite block of sin, and stopping at the outside form of nothing. To this distorted form of vision the outside of everything, the wall that stands between you and the truth, is wholly true. Yet how can sight that stops at nothingness, as if it were a solid wall, see truly? T-22.III.5:1-8
Take a moment. Stop and consider this. The body’s eyes are part of the world of form. Reason will show us vision – a way of seeing beyond the appearance of the world of form. The world is temporary. It will change, it will erode, it will always change its appearance. Mo two of us will ever perceive the world the same. Vision shows us what is permanent and unchangeable beyond what the body’s eyes see. Take a moment and ask your Higher Holy Spirit, your Higher Power within you, for guidance in seeing with your Vision to see beyond the appearance of what you currently see. This is the divine guidance – the divine Vision we seek. This is where the truth about who and what we really are lies. Open your mind to this shift in perception and step into the peace and love that is your natural state of being.
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