Think not you made the world. Illusions, yes! But what is true in earth and Heaven is beyond your naming. When you call upon a brother, it is to his body that you make appeal. His true Identity is hidden from you by what you believe he really is.
God has no name. And yet His Name becomes the final lesson that all things are one, and at this lesson does all learning end. All names are unified; all space is filled with truth’s reflection. Every gap is closed, and separation healed. The Name of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. In our practicing, our purpose is to let our minds accept what God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves.
Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184,W-pI.184.8:1-5;12;15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)
A name is a symbol used to define differences. In the oneness of Love, there is no need for a name because there are no differences in what is one. That is why, in truth, God has no name.
But we believe in a world of differences. We dedicate our life to learning and using names for all the differences. Most importantly, we believe the differences we have labeled are real and have meaning. Differences conflict and compete with each other. But because only the oneness of Love is real, these differences must be illusions, and therefore meaningless.
This belief in the reality of differences hides the truth of Love’s oneness that is everywhere. The Name of God is a unifying symbol as we accept His Name as the one Identity we all share. The fact that His Name is our inheritance makes us all one as His Creation. There are no differences in God, so there are no differences in our inheritance.
To accept our inheritance, we need to replace all the labels and identities that we assign to differences in the world with the one Identity given us by God. This means we withdraw our belief in the reality of differences. As we do this, the seeming importance of differences fades and the eternal presence of Love shines forth. We accept the reality of our Identity as Love in place of the made up illusions of differences in the world.
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