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Awakening from the Vast Illusion

What has been given you? ²The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. ³Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. ⁴This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. ⁵It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.

You have received all this. ²No one who walks the world but has received it.… ⁷Experience cannot be shared directly, in the way that vision can. ⁸The revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind.

The time is set already. ²It appears to be quite arbitrary. ³Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance.… ⁶We but undertake a journey that is over. ⁷Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. ²Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. ³The script is written. ⁴When experience will come to end your doubting has been set. ⁵For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.1;2:1-2,7-8;3:1-3,6-7;4. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

The thought of timelessness is inconceivable in the dream of individuality and separation. This dream seems to have no escape. At best its end is oblivion which is labeled death. Yet this dream of separation and time is a vast illusion.

The truth of What we are is mind in the Mind of God. His Mind is eternal and changeless. Because our mind is in His Mind, our true Self is eternal and changeless. This means we are eternally Love and nothing else.

Outside of the dream, we know this to be true. But we have given credence to a dream that denies truth. We need to be taught to recognize the unreality of the dream. We have a Teacher given us by our Creator to teach us how to let go of the dream and awaken to eternal Life. This Teacher recognizes our beliefs and gently guides us to let them go, as we are willing.

With His help we learn there is no cause for fear or guilt. We let go of the beliefs that deny Love’s presence. We join in the joy of extending the Love given us by our Creator as we join Him in Love’s extension. Thus do we awaken to timelessness and eternal Life.

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