October 15, 2013
This chapter begins by teaching us about attack, anger, and insanity. Anger cannot occur unless we believe we have been attacked, that our retaliatory attack is justified, and that we are in no way responsible for any part of it. Given that we believe these three wholly irrational premises, the equally irrational conclusion that another is deserving of our attack rather than love must follow. When the thought system we believe is based on insane ideas, the conclusions are inevitably insane. None of this is based in reality. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. The only way to change insane conclusions is to change the insane premises. And, the only way to change the insane premises is to change the insane thought system to a sane thought system. Sound reasonable? We cannot be attacked, so we have no justification for attack, and we are responsible for the thought system we believe. Life presents us with all the situations, encounters and experiences we require to make this shift in our thought systems. Spirit, if we will allow, guides us through all these lessons correctly. The result is the miracle of the healing of the mind. We return to our natural state of being and the awareness of who we really are.
We are free to choose the thought system we hold allegiance to. Because we have that choice we always have the freedom to choose another thought system. The crucifixion is nothing more than an extreme example for us to learn from. It is a learning device. We may have many fearful thoughts about the crucifixion, but it is not a fearful idea if we allow Spirit to reinterpret it for us. The value of the crucifixion is solely in its use as a learning device, as is any other situation or experience. If we allow Spirit to interpret for us we gain the benefit of the lesson and the change in our thought system it produces as a result. Of course if we misinterpret the lesson from a separated thought system, we learn a mistaken lesson based on the thought system we believe and have faith in. The message of the crucifixion must be approached without fear, for there is nothing to be afraid of. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. If destruction itself is impossible, anything that is destructible cannot be real. Since attack can only be made on the body, the body must not be real. In other words we are not our body, for we are real. Source created us, so we must be real. It is insanity to see ourselves as destructible, but it is sanity to know we are indestructible. We must understand this premise so we can understand the meaning of the crucifixion.
At the core of our true real thought system is the knowing of who we really are. We are of God, of our Source, and not the body we have made. It is also important to remember that the body is neither right nor wrong, good or bad, even though it is not who and what we are. The body is a learning device. It is useful to us for that purpose and that purpose only. We choose what we learn through the use of the body, right or mistaken. It may get battered and fixed along the way, but its use is to learn the lessons we need to learn through the use of it. If the body is destructible it is not real and we cannot be our body. We are so accustomed to identifying who we are by our body we may find this a difficult idea to accept. Ask Spirit for guidance. As we accept the idea we are not a body, if follows that another is not a body and none of our sisters and brothers are bodies either. Knowing this frees us from the fear of attack and being hurt. The thought system raises a level or two and becomes joined with the Mind and thought system of God, our Source. Allow this shift to occur and let it be so.
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