July 19, 2016
We are always One. We are indivisible. We are One with our Creator, God, the One, and we are One with each other. Nothing can ever change this. If we don’t know this about ourselves, we have simply blocked our awareness of our Oneness with a belief that we are separate. This mistaken belief cannot harm us, but it can make our life in this world seem miserable. This mistaken belief also blocks our awareness of the deep peace and understanding within us. The Course tells us:
We – our true Self – will always be indivisible. As we are held as one in Oneness, so do we learn as one in our Creator. The One’s Teacher is as like to the Creator as is the One Child – Us, and through the Teacher does the One proclaim the Teacher’s Oneness and Ours. Listen in silence, and do not raise your voice against the Teacher’s. For the Teacher teaches the miracle of oneness, and before the Teacher’s lesson division disappears. Teach like the Teacher here, and you will remember that you have always created like your Creator. The miracle of creation has never ceased, having the holy stamp of immortality upon it. This is the Will of the One for all creation, and all creation joins in willing this. T-14.XI.11.1-8
Those who remember always that they know nothing in separation, and have become willing to learn everything, will learn everything. But those that remain believing in separation will not learn. We have convinced ourselves, believing we are separate, that we know through our past perceptions rooted in separation. Release your mind from your past and come with an open receptive mind to Spirit, the Teacher, until you pass the test of perfect peace, for peace and understanding go together and can never be found alone. Recall the test of peace from paragraph 5 of this section:
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.
Let go of fear. What fear? Any and all fear. Release all you hold as true so that the Teacher may undo all that is mistaken and leave remaining all that we have created that is of Oneness. We needn’t fear we will lose anything for what is real and true and holy will remain while what is mistaken will fade from our mind as the illusion it is. In this perfect peace will we find that our creations are much more in our right healed mind than they ever seemed in our separated mind. Allow the Teacher – Spirit – to undo our misperceptions and see perfect peace and understanding rise in our One Mind.
If you want peace you must abandon the teacher of attack. The Teacher of peace will never abandon you. You can desert the Teacher of peace but that Teacher will never reciprocate, for your Teacher’s faith in you is your Teacher’s understanding. It is as firm as is your Teacher’s faith in the Creator, and your Teacher knows that faith in the Creator must encompass faith in all creation. In this consistency lies the Teacher’s Holiness which the Teacher cannot abandon, for it is not the Teacher’s Will to do so. 6 With your perfection ever in your Teacher’s sight, your Teacher gives the gift of peace to everyone who perceives the need for peace, and who would have it. Make way for peace, and it will come. For understanding is in you, and from it peace must come. T-14.XI.14.1-8
The power of our Oneness is within us. It remains hidden as long as we harbor any hidden thoughts of separation. Each miracle of forgiveness lets go of another block to our awareness of who we really are. Release all the attachments held so dear about our past experiences and what we think they mean. Do not fear the miracle of freedom each transcendence brings. Leave room for your Teacher, and you will find yourself so filled with power that nothing will prevail against your peace. And this will be the test by which you recognize that you have understood. Release yourself from the limitations of separation and find perfect peace and understanding right where it’s always been – within you. Peace be unto you.
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