The test of everything on earth is simply this; “What is it for?” The answer makes it what it is for you. It has no meaning of itself, yet you can give reality to it, according to the purpose that you serve. Here you are but means, along with it. God is a Means as well as End. In Heaven, means and end are one, and one with Him. This is the state of true creation, found not within time, but in eternity.
A co-creator with the Father must have a Son. Yet must this Son have been created like Himself. A perfect being, all-encompassing and all-encompassed, nothing to add and nothing taken from; not born of size nor place nor time, nor held to limits or uncertainties of any kind. Here do the means and end unite as one, nor does this one have any end at all. All this is true, and yet it has no meaning to anyone who still retains one unlearned lesson in his memory, one thought with purpose still uncertain, or one wish with a divided aim.
…what is yours will come to you when you are ready. Here [in the world] are the means and the purpose separate because they were so made and so perceived. And therefore do we deal with [means and purpose] as if they were [separate]. It is essential it be kept in mind that all perception still is upside down until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means. And it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which it must depend on what you see it for. Perception seems to teach you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what you taught. It is the outward picture of a wish; an image that you wanted to be true. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.VII.6:1-7;7;8:2-10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In the world it seems that we learn from what we perceive with the body. We judge based on what we have learned from our perceptions in the past. But the Course is telling us that our perceptions are just outward pictures of what we want to be true.
If we want to be a separate, special identity, our perceptions will seem to confirm that we are separate. But the oneness of Love which created us like Itself is all that is real. The perception of separation could never be true. The lessons of separation our perceptions have taught us are false. They were made to justify a false substitute for the one Self created by God.
This is why we must practice turning over all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for his interpretation. We must ask the Holy Spirit of everything, “What is this for? What is its purpose?” The Light of the Holy Spirit’s vision will show us what is true and what is false. Because only Love is real, the truth in every situation is either true or some form of a call for Love. The Holy Spirit will show us how to respond to every call for Love with Love. This is how we learn that we are Love and nothing else.
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