The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.
The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you [in your mind]. Use it for sin or for attack [to reinforce separation], which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful [unworthy]. Because it is sinful [full of guilt] it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use [the body] to bring the Word of God to those who [think they] have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all. The mind makes this decision, as it makes all decisions that are responsible for the body’s condition. Yet the teacher of God does not make this decision alone. To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps it holy. God’s Voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role, just as It tells him what his function is. He does not suffer either in going or remaining. Sickness is now impossible to him.
Oneness and sickness [belief in separation] cannot coexist. God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. …Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.4:6-5:11;6:1-2,6-11)
As we learn that our true Self is not a body but Spirit, united with our Creator, we learn to overlook appearances in the dream of bodies and forms of separation. With the help of the Holy Spirit’s gentle lessons we are able to see as the Holy Spirit sees. The images of forms in the world become less believable and less disturbing of our peace. As we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we see past appearances to the reality of Love’s unity.
As teachers of God this is the message we must bring to our brothers. As we teach under Holy Spirit’s guidance, we learn that we are Spirit in the Mind of Love, along with all our brothers. Differences fade in their seeming importance. The certainty of our unity in Love is accepted more and more. This is how we serve God’s plan of salvation as teachers of God.
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