The resurrection is the complete triumph of Christ over the ego, not by attack but by transcendence. For Christ does rise above the ego and all its works, and ascends to the Father and His Kingdom.
Would you join in the resurrection or the crucifixion? Would you condemn your brothers or free them? Would you transcend your prison and ascend to the Father? These questions are all the same, and are answered together. There has been much confusion about what perception means, because the word is used both for awareness and for the interpretation of awareness. Yet you cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive is your interpretation.
I am leading you to a new kind of experience that you will become less and less willing to deny. Learning of Christ is easy, for to perceive with Him involves no strain at all. His perceptions are your natural awareness, and it is only the distortions you [ego] introduce that tire you. Let the Christ in you interpret for you, and do not try to limit what you see by narrow little beliefs that are unworthy of God’s Son. For until Christ comes into His Own, the Son of God will see himself as Fatherless.
I am your resurrection and your life. You live in me because you live in God. And everyone lives in you, as you live in everyone. Can you, then, perceive unworthiness in a brother and not perceive it in yourself? (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VI.1:6-2:6;3:6-4:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
We ascend to the Father by identifying with Christ in us. Christ is the part of our mind that knows its unbreakable unity with our Creator, with Love.
We transcend the world of separation by accepting our oneness in Love. We don’t go anywhere; we only accept the unity of Love, which has always been here and now. Christ in us comes to Its own by recognizing only Love is real. Love is our own. Nothing else exists in truth.
The resurrection represents our awakening to our changeless reality in Love’s oneness. It is the release from our mistaken belief in separation and lack of Love through forgiveness. As we forgive or let go of false beliefs, our innate awareness that we are one in Love returns. We see the Love in our brother and know It in ourselves. When we have let go of all mistaken beliefs and accepted only Love in our minds, we have “ascended to Heaven.” We have returned to our Home in God.
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