August 2, 2016
Spirit – God’s Teacher – uses time for one prose, to teach us happiness and peace. What more could we want? Happiness and peace are at their purest in the present moment. The egoic thought system uses time for teaching, but for a much different teaching. Peace is inconsistent with the ego’s existence. So it teaches anything but peace. Fear is one of its primary lessons. There are also guilt, attack, lack and a myriad of other lessons it wants us to buy into. Hell is the idea the ego teaches us to believe to reinforce fear in our minds. The egoic thought system teaches us to perceive the world through the lens of fear, teaching us the world is a precursor of hell. It teaches us we are destined to relive our miserable past over and over again into the future until we finally die and end up in hell for eternity. The only way in which the ego allows the fear of hell to be experienced is to bring hell here, into the present, but always as a foretaste of the future. Where is happiness and peace in this scenario?
However, God has something else in mind for us.
The Holy Spirit teaches thus: There is no hell. Hell is only what the ego has made of the present. The belief in hell is what prevents you from understanding the present, because you are afraid of it. The Holy Spirit leads as steadily to Heaven as the ego drives to hell. For the Holy Spirit, Who knows only the present, uses it to undo the fear by which the ego would make the present useless. There is no escape from fear in the ego’s use of time. For time, according to its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever. T-15.I.7.1-7
Fear seems compelling. Nothing appears to threaten happiness and peace like fear, and particularly the fear of hell. Yet Spirit assures us that all that is not happiness and peace is illusion – not real. It is our belief in the lessons of the egoic thought system that keep us attached to the idea that we have anything to fear. Alone – in separation – it is very difficult to unlearn this fear, for we have given up the awareness of our divine nature to learn fear. But when we allow Spirit to guide us in joining in Oneness, we realize our true divine identity and fear fades away into nothing. It seems difficult, yet in unity with the divine it is effortless.
The Holy Spirit would undo all of this now. Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the One Child of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now. T-15.I.8.1-7
Right now, just in this present moment, as we look within to our divine identity, all is well. We have all we need in this moment. We can sense the calm within us. We can be content. We can feel love within us. The past has no place in this instant and so has no effect on our wellbeing. Be in this moment. Feel the holiness that wells up from within you. Feel the connection to all creation and to the Source of your being in this moment. This is the Oneness we are. This is the recognition of who we really are that is unchangeable. This is Heaven on earth. Rest in this holy instant. Let it be just for now. In this instant time has collapsed. There is no past or future to fear in this instant. In this instant we are complete, whole, limitless, loved, loving and at peace. From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time. Be the peace you are.
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