July 9, 2013
The Course tells us that Creation and Communication are synonyms. We probably don’t think this way in our accustomed way of thinking. We generally think that creating is concrete – things – and communication is not concrete – ideas and thought. The world of form is the world we think is real and therefore concrete or solid. Our idea about our identity is primarily based on this idea. It involves a body we believe we are, physical things and needs we have, other people we interact with and either love and care for or wish they would get out of our lives, and a God “out there somewhere” we want or don’t want to intervene in our physical world. This “concrete” world is the egoic world, the world of form, the separate world that is the ego’s existence. This world we identify as real is not the actual physical world, but the world we perceive with our separated or split mind governed by the ego. The egoic mind perceives each thing or idea as a separate whole that has no relationship to anything else, thus making everything appear separate unless it is in the ego’s interest to see some benefit to that relationship.
The Realm of God – the real world – is the opposite of this. Spirit reacts the same to all that is true and real and does not respond to anything else. In Truth, nothing unreal exists. Spirit knows that all that is true is everything created by the Creator. Everything true is in direct and complete communication with all of creation and thus the Creator and Spirit. The Creator creates every mind by communicating the One Mind to each of us, thus establishing a permanent natural channel of communicating the One Mind and Will. This is our natural order of being and we cannot lose this. It is always our natural state of being whether or not we are aware of it. Allowing our mind to believe we are separate from the reality of who we are blocks our awareness of who we really are, but it doesn’t change our natural order of being.
The Creator created us with everything, both in Oneness and individually, with the natural desire to share all of what we have. Nothing real can be increased except by sharing. Divine Abstraction takes joy in sharing. The Realm of Heaven is not about the physical world at all. It is about an abstract world, a world that is perceived by the mind. It is our choice whether we perceive with the split or separate mind or the One Mind. The One Mind is the connected Mind. It is the Mind in communication with Source and all of Creation. It is the Mind we were created from and to be. Our state on being is certainly abstract. It is not determined by our circumstances, conditions, or experiences. Our state of being is determined by our state of mind and the belief and thought system to which we hold allegiance.
The Realm of Heaven rises in our mind whenever we learn to be wholly helpful and thus harmless. The Miracle Workers’ Prayer in Chapter 2 of the Course sums it up; “I am here only to be truly helpful.” This is our purpose in this world. We raise our mind’s vibration to the transforming perception of Spirit that moves us into the awareness of who we really are allowed by our mind’s willingness to let the blocks to our awareness of our true being fall away. Yes, it takes practice. Yes, we will try, succeed, and then fall back again. But we always carry with us our true and natural state of being that we truly are. Our memory of that will bring us back to the awareness of who we really are again and again. Meanwhile we share and multiply the Peace, Love, and Joy of our One Mind all along the journey.
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