June 5, 2012
This section of the Course opens with the statement, “You see the flesh or recognize the spirit.” This is another one of the Course’s statements where it’s either one or the other. We can’t see both at the same time. Our vision is dependent on this choice we make. And our choice is dependent on what we believe about ourselves and who we think we are. The belief we are this body of flesh will always keep us from recognizing spirit within us, \for they are opposites. Our mind cannot be in both beliefs at the same time. If we believe we are flesh, bodies, we believe we are separate. Sprit is Oneness and unity, so if we recognize spirit within, which is One, we cannot be separate. Our minds cannot accept and rationalize two opposing believed truths at the same time. So, we will see ourselves as we believe ourselves to be.
Salvation is undoing. It is the undoing of the limited seeing we have believed so accurate and real. Salvation releases us from the mistake of our belief we are the body and the world we see. But salvation does not ask us to behold the spirit and not perceive the body. That would be almost impossible for our minds which have so long believed we are the body we see. It asks us only to make the choice of which we want to believe and to choose to want to recognize spirit within.
We do not understand haw to see a world apart from the world we think we see. Our mind alone cannot see what it hasn’t made up. This world we made up, salvation will undo and let us see a world our body’s eyes could never see. We have been so entrenched in separation that this world we made up is all we can see. How is the world we see transformed? How is this salvation done? There is no doing to be done. There is no learning or any effort that needs to be done. It just already is for it is our will and God’s Will and it is so.
It doesn’t matter where we think we are, on earth or in Heaven. The Truth of who we are within us remains always radiant and beautiful as a star. That essence of our true being can never be diminished or lost. Our true spirit forever radiates within us, full of love, peace, and joy, waiting for us to recognize it within us. We need do nothing but be willing to choose to believe this truth. The transformation follows our willingness to let go of our attachment to what we think our body’s eyes see. Forget looking for a checklist, the steps we must achieve, and the learning we must do to achieve what we already are. Recognize it by allowing Sprit to remind us who we really are. We are already where we want to be. We just don’t recognize it because we are misperceiving it. Let it all go and recognize sprit.
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