September 24, 2019
The world we see is determined by our perception. The fundamental law of perception is: “You see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there.” Another way to say this is: “What I believe I will see.” The world we see reflects what we believe about it. We actually believe the opposite of what is true, that the world we see is out of our control and we are, perhaps, its victims, or at least that the world we see somehow dictates our reality. When we reduce this to basics, if we believe we are separate, we appear to be separate. If we believe we are connected and one, we appear to be one. Our egoic thought system is invested in our belief we are separate and that we have no control over how the world appears. This belief sets us up for our victimhood and the belief we are subject to the experiences we seem to have in this world of form.
Perception has no other law than this one stated above. The rest stems from this, to hold it up and offer it support. This is perception’s form, adapted to this world, of Source’s more basic law; that love creates itself, and nothing but itself. The Course teaches us that Love is all there is, that reality is nothing but Love. Whatever we perceive tells us what we actually believe. Are we in alignment with the law that all there is is love and nothing else, or something else? We have spent a lifetime learning to believe we are subject to the world we see and that we have no control over our own life. This belief is so powerful we have given ourselves over to the control of our egoic thought system which is completely invested in this perception of the world. Could our Source ever have let us get this lost? No! Though Source gave us free will to choose for ourselves, Source has protected our mind from our egoic thought system’s insanity. Our mind is always One with Source’s Mind and thus cannot be corrupted. Source is just waiting for us to wake up from the dream of insanity – separation – and choose to recognize our holiness – the nature of who we really are.
Perception rests on choosing; knowledge does not. Knowledge has only one law because it has one Creator. The world we see has two creators who made it, and they do not see it in the same way. To each creator it has a different purpose, and to each creator it is a perfect means to serve the goal for which it is perceived. For the goal of specialness and separation, it is the perfect frame to set it off; the perfect battleground to wage its wars, the perfect shelter for illusions which it would make seem real. Not one thing in this distorted perception can be upheld and nothing of it can be fully justified.
There is another Maker of the world, the simultaneous Corrector of the mad belief that anything could be established and maintained without some link that kept it still within the laws of Source – the One; not as the law itself upholds the universe as Source created it, but in some form adapted to the need the One Child – We believe we have. Corrected error is the error’s end. And thus has the One protected still the One Child – Us, even in error. T-25.III.4:1-3
There is another choice we can make in this world of perception, the world we seem to see. This world appears to have no room for forgiveness. We tend to blame instead. However, there is another purpose in the world that mistaken perception made, because it has another Maker Who can reconcile its goal with the Creator’s purpose. In the Creator’s perception of the world, nothing is seen that does not justify forgiveness and the sight of perfect sinlessness. Nothing arises that is not met with instant and complete forgiveness. Nothing remains to obscure the sinlessness that shines unchanged beyond the pitiful attempts of specialness to put it out of our mind. The lamps of Heaven are not for mind to choose to see wherever it will. We can only see them where they really are. If our mind elects to see them elsewhere from their home, as if they lit a place where they could never be, then the Maker of the world must correct our error, lest we remain in darkness where the lamps do not exist.
What world do you wish to see? It is the choice of each one of us. We can choose at any moment to allow Spirit to guide and correct our perception, bringing us a more correct appearance of the world we live in. This returns us closer and closer to the real world, to the reality of our Creation. Allow forgiveness to clear the obstacles to your vision allowing the light of Heaven to reveal your sinlessness – your true Self – to you. Let this allow you to step into the awareness of who you really are in Oneness.
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