October 22, 2013
What Source creates is indestructible because what is real cannot be threatened or destroyed. Since the body is destructible it cannot be real. Therefore we are not a body because we are a creation of the Creator and indestructible. Remember the lessons that centered around the statement “I am not a body, I am free, for I am as God created me?” For us to understand the message of the crucifixion we must understand that we are real and that we cannot be threatened or destroyed. We may still believe we are vulnerable, but the Course is asking us to be open to the idea that we are not our body. We are really an extension of the Creator. And, what we believe about ourselves we also teach each other.
The message the crucifixion was intended to teach was that it is not necessary to perceive any form of assault in persecution because we cannot be persecuted. If we react to anything with anger, we have chosen to see ourselves as destructible and therefor regard ourselves insanely. We have believed we are something we are not and have opened our mind to the idea that we are separate rather than One. The crucifixion is an extreme example of the body’s vulnerability to destruction. But it results in the resurrection, which demonstrates that even though the body may be destructible, we are not. The belief we are our body and thus fragile or destructible, is a mistaken belief, a belief of the lower thought system or split mind. Allowing our thought system to shift to the belief that we are whole, unchangeable, and indestructible, is the miracle of healing of the mind that we really seek. It is not a new thought system. It’s the thought system the Creator placed within us at our creation. We have simply forgotten who we really are. We have simply blocked our awareness of who we really are.
We are free to choose the thought system with which we perceive ourselves. Once we make that choice we believe it. We are invested in it. We continually reinforce that belief and strengthen our resolve to maintain that belief in that thought system. Sprit has patiently held our True thought system within us, waiting for us to be ready to allow a corrective shift in our thought system. Whatever we believe, we teach. And we teach by example. If we believe we are our body we teach others that they are their bodies. If we believe we are the One Child of God, we teach others we are the One Child of God. No matter what the world throws our way, the lesson we are to learn is to return to the awareness of who we really are. Once we reawaken to that Truth, we know who our brothers and sisters really are and we reawaken to the knowledge that we are all One. We begin to see the world with corrected perception. And we find ourselves in the awareness of the Heaven around us. What more could we possibly want? We are the Divine presence of Divinity itself. Love, Peace, and Joy are ours for the awakening. Let it be so.
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