The Atonement does not make holy. You were created holy. It merely brings unholiness to holiness; or what you made to what you are. Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion.
Bringing the ego to God is but to bring error to truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets. It is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? What disappears in light is not attacked. It merely vanishes because it is not true. Different realities are meaningless, for reality must be one. It cannot change with time or mood or chance. Its changelessness is what makes it real. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IX.1:1-8;2:1-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
The practice of bringing all our thoughts and perceptions to the Holy Spirit for correction is bringing the ego to God, illusion to truth. What we experience with the body is illusion because the body itself is an illusion. The body is the ego’s principal mechanism for making illusions seem real.
As we learn not to trust what the body shows us and our interpretations of body experiences, we open the door to receive Holy Spirit’s true Vision that is not of the body. To free ourselves from the hell of the ego, we must direct our attention to the inner vision of Christ, which cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. Christ’s vision sees past the body, disregarding it as meaningless of itself. Christ’s vision sees Christ in all things. Love’s innocence is all there is to see in truth. Every day is an opportunity to practice bringing all illusions to truth by letting the Holy Spirit be our Guide.
© Copyright 2016, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.
Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution in support of this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution or become a member online, go to http://www.pathwaysoflight.org/polshop/home.php?cat=254.
Or send a check or money order to Pathways of Light, 6 Oak Court, Ormond Beach, FL 32174-2623 (USD only, please) Thank you for your support.