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ACIM-T.25.I The Link toTruth

August 27, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 27, 2019

Are you willing to see your own holiness? We must change our minds to begin to look at ourselves and others differently. Our perception is the means by which we see ourselves and each other and this world as long as we believe we are separate. Our perception is guided by what we believe we are at any given moment. When we believe ourselves to be a body, we see separation and a temporary world which ends ultimately in death. What is holy about this? We have denied our holy Creation in the image the One through holiness. Believing we are a body we deny our own holiness. How can we begin to recognize the Christ in us, or in another, when we deny our holiness?

Perception is a choice of what we want ourselves to be; the world we want to live in, and the state in which we think our mind will be content and satisfied. Perception chooses where we think our safety lies. It is our decision. It reveals who we believe we are to ourselves as we would have us be. It is always faithful to our perceived purpose, from which it never separates, nor gives the slightest witness to anything the perceived purpose in our mind does not support. Perception is a part of what it is our purpose to behold, for means and end are never separate. Thus we learn what seems to have a life apart has none.

You are the means for the One; not separate, nor with a life apart from the One’s. The One’s life is manifest in you who are It’s Creation. Each aspect of the Created is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your friend stand before the Christ in you  now, to let the Christ in you draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart.   T-25.I.4:1-10

We have a purpose even in this world of perception and separation. Because we perceive ourselves as separate, Heaven is presented to us as the link to truth. We need to find the connection that lifts us out of our belief we are a body and moves us to seeing ourselves as holy – as one with our Creator. The Holy Spirit has been given to us to guide our perception in correction, guiding us gently back to the awareness of who we really are. The recognition of our wholeness, completeness and holiness is a change in perception that can be so great and unbelievable that Spirit guides us in doable steps. This is the gift we are offered. It is our choice to accept this gift as we are willing, but it is our return home. The Holy Spirit serves Christ’s purpose in our mind, so that the aim of specialness can be corrected where the misperception lies. It is the Holy Spirit’s function to teach us how this oneness is experienced, what we must do that it can be experienced, and where we should go to do it.

All this takes note of time and place as if they were discrete, for while you think that part of you is separate, the concept of a Oneness joined as One is meaningless. It is apparent that a mind so split could never be the Teacher of a Oneness which unites all things within Itself. And so What is within this mind, and does unite all things together, must be its Teacher. Yet must It use the language that this mind can understand, in the condition in which it thinks it is. And It must use all learning to transfer illusions to the truth, taking all false ideas of what you are, and leading you beyond them to the truth that is beyond them. All this can very simply be reduced to this:

What is the same can not be different, and what is one can not have separate parts.  T-25.I.7:1-7

The link to truth – Heaven on earth – is our link to the awareness of our Oneness – who we really are. We are guided in looking beyond the appearance of all things to the truth beyond. What lies there is our home. It is the home we never left, but blocked from our awareness by the belief we are a body, our belief that we were ever separate from reality. Choose to rejoin the awareness of Oneness, for this is the salvation we offer each other and ourselves. It is time to come together.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God

ACIM T.25.introduction & I The Link to Truth

August 20, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 20, 2019

This chapter brings us right back to the idea of the Christ in you. Whether we think of this as the Christ Spirit or Higher Consciousness or Higher Power, This brings us back to the fact that we are not a body. The Christ in us is eternal and thus cannot be in something temporal that dies. Real life is everlasting – eternal. This is to what the Course tells us:

The Christ in you inhabits not a body. Yet the Christ is in you. And thus, it must be that you are not within a body. What is within you cannot be outside. And it is certain that you cannot be apart from what is at the very center of your life. What gives you life cannot be housed in death. No more can you. Christ is within a frame of Holiness whose only purpose is that the Christ may be made manifest to those who know the Christ not, that the Christ may call to them to come to the Christ and see the Christ where they thought their bodies were. Then will their bodies melt away, that they may frame Holiness in them.   T-25.in.1:1-9

The Christ in us is the Holiness in us. It is the Holiness we are, always have been and always will be. Our Holiness is eternal and unchangeable. It can never be undone. We may block our awareness of it for a time, but it will always be shining below and above the surface. Our Holiness is the essence of who we are.

Section I begins teaching about the link to truth. In previous chapters, the Course has taught that the one we travel with at this very moment is our savior. They are where we look to see the truth about them and also about ourselves. Do we use the temporal to see each other framed there? That would be like faming ourselves in death. Perhaps a death mask. There is no life there. On the other hand, we can choose to frame another in holiness and see the infinite there in that holiness. Choosing to look through the frame of holiness gives us a clearer picture. When we allow Spirit to guide our vision and our perception. In this manner, we see our holiness shining brightly and reflecting our own holiness to us. The perfection of our true nature as we are created is there waiting to be seen. It is indestructible and eternal. It is who we really are.

You are the means for the One; not separate, nor with a life apart from the One’s. The One’s life is manifest in you who are It’s Creation. Each aspect of the Created is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your friend stand before the Christ in you  now, to let the Christ in you draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart.   T-25.I.4:1-10

The one we journey with – our brother, our sister, our friend – are each our link to truth. When we allow ourselves to look on them in holiness, we see them differently. They may appear a bit strange at first, but we are beginning to see them for who and what they really are. They are the ones who will reflect our holiness back to us when we look upon them through holiness. This is the correction we need. This is the correction we want. We can join together and continue our journey joined together as One. We are on our way to the awareness of our Oneness with each other and all Creation. This is what we have been seeking all this time but didn’t look within ourselves where it has been all along. Take the hand of the One you are with and allow yourself to be led into the awareness of who you really are. Here is the peace and love you have been seeking all along.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 25 – The Justice of God, Uncategorized

ACIM T.24.VII The Meeting Place

August 13, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 13, 2019

There are many tests the Course suggests for things we encounter in life. They all give us the opportunity to see something differently. They all give us the opportunity to allow Spirit to reinterpret our perception to see things more clearly. And it will never be more than we can handle at the moment. It may stretch our unwillingness to accept change, but never more than we can handle. The ones we encounter on this journey we call life are our own creations They may appear to be out of our control, but we control our perception of them. Our perception is our creation. The test at this point is, “What is this for?” Be perfectly honest with yourself in answering this question. They are in our lives to teach us something. The root lesson is to forgive them and see their holiness, and recognize our own holiness reflected back to us in them. To recognize we are truly One in Oneness.

A co-creator with the Creator must have a Creation. Yet must this Creation have been created like its Creator. A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in their memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.   T-24.VII.7:1-5

The lessons of the Course are learnable and teachable. In fact, they are not difficult if we are willing to see clearly. It is essential we keep in mind that all perception is upside down until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means. And it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which perception must depend on what we see it for. Perception seems to teach us what we see. Yet perception witnesses to what we teach. It is the outward picture of a wish; an image that we want to be true, whether or not it is true. Perception can be used to see separation or see Oneness. Perception is means rather than end. Only when we understand this can we begin to see differently and see reality beyond the appearance of the world we think we see.

A dualistic world is made of the way we perceive through separation. We appear to be separate from each other as we walk this world. We seem to exist here without a meeting place and no encounter. We never join in this world. We dance around each other. We blame and accuse, even attack, but maintain that one is inherently inferior to the other. The purpose we have given our creation is to compare ourselves to and see ourselves “better” than. What if we choose a different purpose?

Yet can perception serve another goal. It is not bound to specialness but by your choice. And it is given you to make a different choice, and use perception for a different purpose. And what you see will serve that purpose well, and prove its own reality to you.   T-24.VII.11:10-13

Have you grown tired of the world you seem to see? Are you ready to make another choice? The reality of Heaven is already within you for it has never left you.  In fact, you have never left Heaven. You are as complete, whole and holy as when you were created. We simply denied the reality of who we are by choosing separation instead of Oneness. We can change our mind now as easily as we changed it before. There is no penalty or price to pay. It is a simple matter of letting go of the separation we believed in and rejoining the Oneness we are. This is the journey we are on back t the awareness of who we really are. When will you make that choice?

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness

ACIM T.24.VII The Meeting Place

August 6, 2019 1:00 pm ⋅

August 6, 2019

We have been looking at our misplaced desire for “specialness” in this chapter. We have learned that the desire for “specialness” is an egoic desire to see ourselves better than others, especially those we are walking with right now. We become judgmental. We attack or defend to preserve our “specialness.” We believe we are vulnerable. We believe we are failing and so believe we are in danger of being “less than” or inadequate. Have I said enough “bad” things yet? Have I succeeded in dissing myself and others? These ae the kind of thoughts we think when we align our minds with our egoic thought system – our separated mind. We could even call this our “specialness” mind. All these ideas could not be further from the truth of who and what we are. We are the holy creations of Source, forever holy and changeless. And, therefore, holy and changeless ourselves. How do we really see ourselves? Look at the one you are walking with at this moment. What do you see? Do you see their holiness and changelessness? What you see in them is what you believe about yourself, whether right or mistaken.

The memory of Source shines not alone. What is within the one you walk with still contains all of creation, everything created and creating, born and unborn as yet, still in the future or apparently gone by. What is in them is changeless, and your changelessness is recognized in its acknowledgment. The holiness in you belongs to them. And by your seeing it in them, returns to you. All of the tribute you have given specialness belongs to them, and thus returns to you. All of the love and care, the strong protection, the thought by day and night, the deep concern, the powerful conviction this is you, belong to them. Nothing you gave to specialness but is their due. And nothing due them is not due to you.   T-24.VII.2:1-9

We cannot know who we really are when we have placed our value in “specialness.” Our belief in “specialness” blocks our awareness of our true holiness, our wholeness and our limitlessness. So, the one we walk with right now is in our life to show us our holiness. Not that “they” correct our vision, but we allow ourselves to see our holiness in them reflected back to us. We allow our eyes to be opened to see reality and eternity. Our eternal holiness and wholeness are there where Source created it in us. It had never gone away. It has never been corrupted or banished. We blocked it from our awareness by our own belief in specialness and separation. Do not seek to make your specialness the truth, for if it were you would indeed be lost. Rather, be thankful you can see the holiness of the one you walk with now because it is the truth. And what is true in them must be as true in you because we are all one..

Source keeps what Source created safe. You cannot touch it with the false ideas you made, because it was created not by you. Let not your foolish fancies frighten you. What is immortal cannot be attacked; what is but temporal has no effect. Only the purpose that you see in it has meaning, and if that is true, its safety rests secure. If not, it has no purpose, and is means for nothing. Whatever is perceived as means for truth shares in its holiness, and rests in light as safely as itself. Nor will that light go out when it is gone. Its holy purpose gave it immortality, setting another light in Heaven, where your creations recognize a gift from you, a sign that you have not forgotten them.   T-24.VII.5:1-9

Are you unsure of the reality of what you see? The test of everything we see on earth is simply this; “What is it for?” The answer makes it what it is for you. Look at this answer. Does it ring true? Ask Spirit for guidance if you are unsure. Everything you need is already within you. In Heaven, means and end are one. This is the state of true creation, not found in time, but in eternity. This is not describable to anyone aligned with separation and specialness. This cannot be learned. We must go past learning to the Given and again make a holy home for our creations to make it understood.

Release your attachment to “specialness.” Open your eyes and see the one you walk with now in the light of their holiness and see your holiness reflected there to you. This is all the proof you need of who you really are. This is where you return to the awareness of who you really are – whole, holy, complete and limitless. Step into the awareness of love, peace and freedom which you never ever left behind.

Posted in: ACIM Ch. 24 – The Goal of Specialness