The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack [to reinforce separation], which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful [full of guilt] it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use [the body] to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all.
Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs. (A Course in Miracles, M-12.5:1-6;6:1-11)
Unity is of the mind. The part of the mind that believes separation is real is sick (insane). It is the sick mind that imagines a world of separation with separate bodies where harm and loss seems to be possible. It is the sickness of the mind that must be healed. The mechanism for this healing is true forgiveness — letting go of belief in separation.
The Word of God, the Holy Spirit, teaches us to see past the illusions of the sick mind. While we identify with the sick mind (ego), it seems that God’s Voice is asking us to sacrifice the valuable. So we need to be taught that we have mistakenly given value to nothing. God’s Voice teaches us to recognize that what we value in the world is meaningless and nothing.
As we accept His lessons, we naturally lay down false values and welcome God’s gifts which are already ours. We are able to overlook the figures in the dream because we know they are illusions. This process of letting go of false values is our journey of awakening to the awareness of Love’s presence.
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