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Study of Text, C 15: The End of Doubt, P 1, 10-5-17

II. The End of Doubt, P 1
1 The Atonement is in time, but not for time. Being in you, it is eternal. What holds remembrance of God cannot be bound by time. No more are you. For unless God is bound, you cannot be. An instant offered to the Holy Spirit is offered to God on your behalf, and in that instant you will awaken gently in Him. In the blessed instant you will let go all your past learning, and the Holy Spirit will quickly offer you the whole lesson of peace. What can take time, when all the obstacles to learning it have been removed? Truth is so far beyond time that all of it happens at once. For as it was created one, so its oneness depends not on time at all.

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In this paragraph, Jesus is sharing with us some difficult concepts, difficult because they are unlike what we experience now. He is telling us that we are given the Atonement in time where it is useful to us, but it has nothing to do with time, being Itself eternal. The Atonement holds the memory of God and nothing with that memory can be bound by time. This is good news because that memory is in us and so we are eternal as well, and cannot be bound by time.

He also talks about the holy Instant as one that is offered to the Holy Spirit. He says that when we offer that moment to the Holy Spirit who offers it to God on our behalf, in that instant we will awaken gently in Him. I have done this many times, this offering the moment to the Holy Spirit, and I don’t seem to have gone past all learning, and I don’t seem to have received the whole lesson of peace.

And yet it must be true. This is why Jesus explains the relationship between the Atonement and time and eternity. In eternity, where we are, the moment was offered and the world fell away. We exist with and in God in perfect bliss. It was instantaneous because there is no time to traverse in eternity. In time, where we think we are, the answer unfolds gently and seems to span time, years usually.

It is all part of the illusion that includes the world and time and space. So we are both awake and waking up depending on your perspective, but there is only one truth, and in truth, we are awake in God because there is only God. I have been practicing shifting my awareness from the world. In this practice, I have had brief instances of something closer to my reality than life as if I am a body. This is possible because it is actually the truth right now. Shift your focus from the body and you will shift into reality, or as close to reality as you are ready for.

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