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.
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