April 10, 2018
The fourth obstacle peace must flow over is like a heavy veil that hangs between our mind and our Mind. This heavy veil obscures the reality of Love by making it seem disfigured, diseased and ugly to our separated mind. Love seems to appear scarred and repulsive. Love’s appearance through this heavy veil appears undesirable and something that instills fear in our mind. Even though it is an illusion caused by the distortion of the veil of fear, it appears very real to us when we are unwilling to seek the guidance of Spirit in our perceiving. As we rely on our egoic thought system to guide our perception of the world, we see a world colored by fear: fear of peace, fear of death, fear of pain and fear of God. All this “fear of” occupies our mind and paralyzes our ability to see with our Spirit Eye. We have the ability within us to see clearly, to see Love, Joy and Peace holding steadfastly within our One Mind waiting for us to realize we want to see clearly.
The fourth obstacle to be surmounted hangs like a heavy veil before the face of Christ. As the face of Christ rises beyond it, shining with joy because the Christ is in the Creator’s Love, peace will lightly brush the veil aside and run to meet Love, and to join with Love at last. For this dark veil, which seems to make the face of Christ like to a leper’s, and the bright Rays of the Creator’s Love that light the face of Christ with glory appear as streams of blood, fades in the blazing light beyond it when the fear of death is gone. T-19.IV.D.2:1-3
No matter what form this imagery takes for us, the distortion in our perception is easily pulled aside when we look for the divine guidance within us; the presence of our Higher Holy Spirit Self. We are the Divine guidance we seek. We have simply denied its existence within our mind. And, our denial has kept it well hidden behind this veil. This darkest veil is the result of our solemn vow, the promise we made in secret to our egoic thought system, never to lift this veil. Not to approach it, nor even to suspect that it is even there. This is the secret bargain we made with our egoic thought system to keep what lies beyond the veil forever blotted out and unremembered. Here is our promise never to allow union to call us out of separation; the great amnesia in which the memory of the Divine seems quite forgotten; the cleavage of our Self from us, the fear of God, the final step in our dissociation.
Every obstacle that peace must flow across is surmounted in just the same way; the fear that raised it yields to the love beyond, and so the fear is gone. And so it is with this. The desire to get rid of peace and drive the Holy Spirit from you fades in the presence of the quiet recognition that you love Spirit. The exaltation of the body is given up in favor of the spirit, which you love as you could never love the body. And the appeal of death is lost forever as love’s attraction stirs and calls to you. From beyond each of the obstacles to love, Love Itself has called. And each has been surmounted by the power of the attraction of what lies beyond. Your wanting fear seemed to be holding them in place. Yet when you heard the Voice of Love beyond them, you answered and they disappeared. T-19.IV.D.5:1-8
Listen, then, for the call of Love that calls from its dwelling place within us. Love’s attraction points us to what lies beyond all the obstacles to peace we could ever dream up to the Divine truth of the Love we are. Peace dwells within that Love. We are and have always been that Love and Peace. This is what we really are. When we choose to allow our Divine nature to rise in our consciousness, all else fades gently into nothingness, for all that is not Love and Peace is surely nothing. Look within to the Holy and recognize yourself in the One of Oneness.
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