There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and when you reach it is apart from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that is received instead.
[Perception and knowledge] are brought together, and only one continues past the gate where oneness is. Salvation is a borderland where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, out of place, and every choice has been already made. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.III.2,3:5-6)
The Course tells us that there is no world and that we have never succeeded in separating from our Source, from Love. Yet our experience of the world seems very convincing because we are firmly dedicated to the belief that we are separate, limited to a body and only able to perceive through the body. We are told that the body is the ego’s instrument to limit our perception so that we are only able to perceive “proof” that separation is real, that our mind is separate from other minds, unable to communicate mind to mind.
In this world of limitation the Holy Spirit’s purpose is to teach us that we are unlimited. Because of our dedication to our belief in being separate, we have denied knowledge of oneness so the Holy Spirit must reach to us and help us to soften our investment in separation and isolation.
Forgiveness is the means of loosening our identification with the thought system of being separate. In Oneness, there is no need for forgiveness, for there is nothing to forgive. But the Holy Spirit brings us the illusion of forgiveness to help us let go of the illusions that keeps us locked into the closed thought system of separation.
As we let the Holy Spirit transform our limited perception so that we can see past it, we recognize that the meaning we have given the world can be let go. And so we approach the borderland where we still seem to see forms of separate bodies in time and space but we realize that these are only temporary and that they do not truly limit us. We can lay them down and open our minds to the experience of Love’s oneness without fear and guilt. When we welcome this experience without reservation, the Holy Spirit’s job is done and we remember our Home in Love. Our joy and peace are complete.
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