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Study of Text, C 14: VIII. The Holy Meeting Place, P 1. 6-5-17

VIII. The Holy Meeting Place, P 1
1 In the darkness you have obscured the glory God gave you, and the power He bestowed upon His guiltless Son. All this lies hidden in every darkened place, shrouded in guilt and in the dark denial of innocence. Behind the dark doors you have closed lies nothing, because nothing can obscure the gift of God. It is the closing of the doors that interferes with recognition of the power of God that shines in you. Banish not power from your mind, but let all that would hide your glory be brought to the judgment of the Holy Spirit, and there undone. Whom He would save for glory is saved for it. He has promised the Father that through Him you would be released from littleness to glory. To what He promised God He is wholly faithful, for He shares with God the promise that was given Him to share with you.

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The Holy Spirit has a job to do, and He will not fail. His promise is that He will awaken us to our glory and He is faithful to His pledge. As each of us becomes ready to let go of the ego separation idea, the Holy Spirit directs and guides and heals. How could we fail when we have this certain help? As we accept His help, our awareness of reality is restored.
The only thing that stands between us and the power and glory bestowed on us in our creation is a system of beliefs that allowed us to have this experience. Now that we are ready to awaken from this dream state, the Holy Spirit looks with us at these beliefs and shines the light of truth on them. Their illusory nature becomes so apparent that we withdraw our belief and lose interest in them. The world of separation dissolves, and we see the love and innocence that has always been there.

The way this worked for me and many others, I am sure, is that I began to pay attention to my thoughts. I gradually accepted that they were powerful whether they were real thoughts or not. This new way of perceiving the power of my thoughts pointed to a self that was different than the vulnerable and weak person I had thought myself to be. I had not known that I had such power.

From this more enlightened understanding, I let the Holy Spirit guide me to other truths, and I began to consider the possibility that I was not the guilty person I had believed I was. It made sense to me that I could not change what God created unchangeable, and so I started accepting the Holy Spirit’s offer to heal my mind of the belief that my assumed guilt could be real and permanent.

After some time, I surrendered my mind to the Holy Spirit without reservation. I knew I wanted to remember who I am and so asked what was to be done next, and I did it to the best of my ability. Not to say this was quick or easy, but it did remain simple. The Holy Spirit would point me to a thought that needed to be seen. I would look at it, feel the repercussions of believing it, and then decide to let my mind be corrected by Him. Slowly but steadily, the Holy Spirit and I uncovered enough of the untrue thoughts to let light shine in my darkened mind.

My mind is no longer dark with ego thinking. I still have some shadows and dark corners to explore with the Holy Spirit. But no matter how real the ego story seems to get, I never completely believe it, and I am always willing to be enlightened. There is no hard work rebuilding what I lost because I never lost it. It remains a simple matter of removing what I am no longer interested in believing, and God gave me His Holy Spirit to be sure I had all the help I needed. Thank you, God. I love you, God.

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