The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ [the symbol of forgiveness] in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.
In his complete identification with the Christ—the perfect Son of God, His one creation and His happiness, forever like Himself and One with Him—Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. He made a clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God’s Son; nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
Yet still it is [Jesus’] lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this:
There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God’s Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent to you to care for as I care for you. (A Course in Miracles, C-5.2-3;6:8-12)
Jesus demonstrated what happens when we forgive all the illusions of the world without exception. Seeing the face of Christ means seeing the innocence of Love in our brother and nothing else. It means we see Love’s Reality and dismiss as meaningless the ego’s illusions of the body and other images in the world.
Seeing the face of Christ without exception is our single vocation in the world. Every encounter in our daily life experience is an opportunity to practice. In every instant we choose between seeing the face of Christ or believing that the ego’s illusions are real. Choosing Christ’s vision leads us to remember our true Self, the Christ, the perfect Son of God.
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