The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ 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. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 1, C-5.2-3)
Jesus learned a lesson we all must learn. He learned to look at all the forms in the world, but accepted none of them as real. His “life” in the world demonstrated that nothing that seems to occur in the world had any effect on the truth of his Self, the Christ. This Self can never be harmed because it shares the changelessness of God.
This is the lesson all of us can and must learn if we would free ourselves from our mistaken beliefs that separation is real. This lesson fully learned without exception awakens us to the Christ we are, along with Jesus.
We celebrate Christmas by not revering the body named Jesus, but by accepting our true Self as our Identity, by learning the lesson Jesus learned. We take a step in this direction every time we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive a misperception. We accept Christ into our hearts by letting go of our self-made barriers to Love’s presence. As the barriers are released, our true Self, the Christ, is revealed. When forgiveness is complete, the Love we are is united wholeheartedly with the Love that is the truth in every brother.
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