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Letting the Holy Spirit Judge on Our Behalf

³You cannot judge. ⁴You merely can believe the ego’s judgments, all of which are false. ⁵It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

Let Him [Holy Spirit] be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before Its face. ²Christ cannot doubt Himself. ³The Voice for God can only honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. ⁴Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys of sin; unheeding of the body’s witnesses before the rapture of Christ’s holy face.

⁶Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. ⁷His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. ²And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. ³And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-151.4:3-5;8;9:6-7;11. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)

The body is the ego’s prime instrument of deception. Its senses filter out the truth and can only bear false witness to what the ego wants us to believe is ‘real’.

In our mind is One Who judges truly. The practice of letting the Voice for God judge all our perceptions on our behalf leads us back to knowing the Certainty of Heaven. He sees changeless Love beyond all images of differences. He speaks to us of the Love that unites with every brother and our Father.

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Accepting Our Will to Be Only Love

Do you not understand that to oppose the Holy Spirit is to fight yourself? ²He tells you but your will; He speaks for you. ³In His Divinity is but your own. ⁴And all He knows is but your knowledge, saved for you that you may do your will through Him. ⁵God asks you do your will. ⁶He joins with you. …¹¹God is no enemy to you. ¹²He asks no more than that He hear you call Him “Friend.”

How wonderful it is to do your will! ²For that is freedom. ³There is nothing else that ever should be called by freedom’s name. ⁴Unless you do your will you are not free. ⁵And would God leave His Son without what he has chosen for himself? ⁶God but ensured that you would never lose your will when He gave you His perfect Answer [Holy Spirit]. ⁷Hear It now, that you may be reminded of His Love and learn your will.

Look once again upon your enemy, the one you chose to hate instead of love. ²For thus was hatred born into the world, and thus the rule of fear established there. ³Now hear God speak to you, through Him Who is His Voice and yours as well, reminding you that it is not your will to hate and be a prisoner to fear, a slave to death, a little creature with a little life. ⁴Your will is boundless; it is not your will that it be bound. ⁵What lies in you has joined with God Himself in all creation’s birth. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.II.1:1-6,11–2:7;3:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self, God’s Voice, is always offering us messages of God’s eternal Love for His Son. But while we adhere to the ego’s messages of fear, we are not getting the loving messages that would restore us to awareness of the Will we share with our Father.

His Voice speaks through our brothers, as well. We will receive His messages if we are willing to listen his true Self, the one we share as God’s one Son. Forgiveness opens our mind to Love’s Presence. It heals our mind and restores our willingness to join in the unlimited extension of our Father’s Love.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Gifts

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. ²Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. ³Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. ⁴There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. ⁵And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.

²The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. ³And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.

From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. ²Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. ³And the memory of all your Father’s Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.

Accept your Father’s gift. ²It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. ³The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.7.1;3:2–5:3)

The profound blessing of God’s Love is beyond our comprehension while we identify with a body. The body is the ego’s prime tool to block our awareness of Love. It limits our perception to illusions of forms that deny our oneness with our Creator and His Creation.

Our Father has given us the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our illusions and open our minds to Love. The Holy Spirit calls to us gently to awaken from our dream. He offers us Christ’s vision, which sees past the ego’s barriers to Love. We need only offer our perceptions to Him with willingness to receive His kind correction to let our mind be healed of fear-based thoughts. In gratitude we accept His gift today.

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Letting Love Replace Fear

How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me. ²My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine. ³Can dreams content me? ⁴Can illusions bring me happiness? ⁵What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? ⁶I will accept no less than You have given me. ⁷I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. ⁸God’s Son must be as You created him.

Today we pass illusions by. ²And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. (A Course in Miracles,W-272. See also ACIM Lesson 272 Insights.)

“I am surrounded by God’s Love.” We remind ourselves of this simple truth throughout this day. The full acceptance of this fact will awaken us from our dream to know that we are in Heaven now.

Each time we remember, our illusions have less appeal. The attraction of the peace and joy of our Father’s Love grows stronger. Gradually we progress from doubt and uncertainty to increasing willingness to let God’s gift of all His Love replace all fear.

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Remembering Our Invulnerability in Love

What Comforter can there be for the sick children of God except His power through you? ²Remember that it does not matter where in the Sonship He is accepted. ³He is always accepted for all, and when your mind receives Him the remembrance of Him awakens throughout the Sonship. ⁴Heal your brothers simply by accepting God for them. ⁵Your minds are not separate, and God has only one channel for healing because He has but one Son. ⁶God’s remaining Communication Link [Holy Spirit] with all His children joins them together, and them to Him. ⁷To be aware of this is to heal them because it is the awareness that no one is separate, and so no one is sick.

To believe that a Son of God can be sick is to believe that part of God can suffer. ²Love cannot suffer, because it cannot attack. ³The remembrance of love therefore brings invulnerability with it. ⁴Do not side with sickness in the presence of a Son of God even if he believes in it, for your acceptance of God in him acknowledges the Love of God he has forgotten. ⁵Your recognition of him as part of God reminds him of the truth about himself, which he is denying. ⁶Would you strengthen his denial of God and thus lose sight of yourself? ⁷Or would you remind him of his wholeness and remember your Creator with him? (A Course in Miracles, T-10.III.2–3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Because God is Love and nothing else, His Creation is only Love and remains one with Himself. In the dream of separation, His Son appears as many, but God sees them all as one. The Course refers to them as the Sonship as a bridge to help us look past the illusion of many to the recognition that we all united in one Love with our Creator.

In the dream, the illusion of sickness appears to demonstrate that we are separate and vulnerable. But as we learn to see the Love that is the true Identity of our brothers, we learn that we are that same Love. Love shows us our invulnerability in our unity with all that is Real.

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Remembering Our Eternal Self

You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. ²Is it your decision to do so? ³You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep. ⁴Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all. ⁵You do not think this strange, even though all the laws of what you awaken to were violated while you slept. ⁶Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking?

⁷When you remember, you will know that what you remember is eternal, and therefore is now.

You will remember everything the instant you desire it wholly, for if to desire wholly is to create, you will have willed away the separation, returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator and your creations. ²Knowing Them you will have no wish to sleep, but only the desire to waken and be glad. ³Dreams will be impossible because you will want only truth, and being at last your will, it will be yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-10.I.2;3:7–4:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Everything in the dream is perceived in bits and pieces; no thought encompasses all as one. But our true Self is part of the one Thought of Love that is all inclusive. This Thought cannot be accepted partially.

But when we desire Love wholly, without exception, we will know our unity with all of Creation and our Creator. The peace and joy we will experience dispels any dream where Love’s oneness is denied. This is the gift we give ourselves when we forgive all perceptions of differences and see everyone as a perfect Child of God.

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Recognizing Opportunities to Heal Our Mind

Miracles are merely the translation of denial into truth. ²If to love oneself is to heal oneself, those who are sick do not love themselves. ³Therefore, they are asking for the love that would heal them, but which they are denying to themselves. ⁴If they knew the truth about themselves they could not be sick. ⁵The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth. ⁶The sick must heal themselves, for the truth is in them. ⁷Yet having obscured it, the light in another mind must shine into theirs because that light is theirs.

The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. …your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. ⁸This is what you have forgotten. ⁹To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God.

Perceive in sickness but another call for love, and offer your brother what he believes he cannot offer himself. ²Whatever the sickness, there is but one remedy. ³You will be made whole as you make whole, for to perceive in sickness the appeal for health is to recognize in hatred the call for love. ⁴And to give a brother what he really wants is to offer it unto yourself, for your Father wills you to know your brother as yourself. ⁵Answer his call for love, and yours is answered. ⁶Healing is the Love of Christ for His Father and for Himself. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.II.1:1–2:1,7-9;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Why is it important to answer a brother’s call for Love? Because the Love we offer to our brother is offered to our self. We are one and the same Self.

In the dream of separation, we see ourselves as different. As we forgive our perceptions of differences, we welcome the unity of Love. We experience the blessing of trusting the truth that we dwell together in Love’s Light. This Light guides us on a shared path of return to Love. Every perception becomes an opportunity to heal our mind.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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