July 12, 2016
Last week we discussed the test of Truth:
You have one test, as sure as the One, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned the One’s lesson, and not your own. T-14.XI.5.1-2
Freedom from fear and freedom from the perception of fear. Sharing in perfect peace. These are the indications of our awareness of our Oneness – who we really are. It is possible while we remain in this world. However, we don’t do it alone. It is shared will all of Oneness we all are. Our willingness to release our attachment to all past experiences is the key to our transcendence. Our problem that needs solving is that we rely on the lessons we learned in separation to join in Oneness. Separation has no role in Oneness for it is contradictory to Oneness.
When our peace seems threatened, the Course offers us a prayer to help us turn our minds from its attachment to the lessons we have taught ourselves from our past experiences.
I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now. T-14.XI.6.7-9
We must look to the Guide within us – our Higher Holy Spirit Self – that knows our true Self and the truth about who we really are. We have never lost who we are, just ignored our true Self within us as we tried to make sense of our past experiences on our own without benefit of true Vision. Thus have we separated ourselves from the awareness of our perfect peace also within us.
We have a Teacher within us waiting for us to allow ourselves to be taught and guided. This Teacher, whether we call it Teacher, Spirit or our Higher Self, is within our Divine Self. It is Oneness. It is the Unity of all that is. It is eternal where all else is temporary and illusion. As we allow this Divine essence within us to guide us, our eyes are opened to the reality of who we are and our perception of the world is reinterpreted for us. We begin to understand that peace lies within us. We begin to understand that love and compassion are within the core of our being. All else fades away in the light of the truth within us. This is our salvation. This is the remembrance of who we really are and our return to the awareness of who we really are.
The Guide Who has freed you from the past would teach you are free of it. The Guide would but have you accept Its accomplishments as yours, because It did them for you. And because It did, they are yours. The Guide has made you free of what you made. 5 You can deny Him, but you cannot call on Him in vain. Thank the One that this Guide is there and works through you. And all Its works are yours. This Guide offers you a miracle with every one you let be done through you. T-14.XI.10.1-5, 8-10
Release your mind from the lessons you have made. Freedom lies in the awareness of who you really are. Perfect peace and love are within you waiting to rise to your awareness. Step aside and allow the Divine essence within you to rise and overflow. There is a never-ending supply that will reach all of creation as we allow our self-taught lessons to be undone. The One transcends the seeming limitations of our self-taught lessons and teaches us Truth. Let it be done.
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