The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given [the Holy Spirit], to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.
The goal the Holy Spirit’s teaching sets is just this end of dreams. For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to those of love. And when this [translation] is entirely accomplished, learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the eternal truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook What Is the Holy Spirit, W-pII.7.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)
Like getting so engrossed in a movie we are watching that we react to what we see as if it were real, we react to our dream world as though the it is real. We believe we are in the dream, not realizing that the characters and situations in the dream are projections from our own mind. The dream seems to be self-perpetuating and beyond our control. So we need help from beyond the dream to help us awaken.
The Holy Spirit recognizes we are dreaming and offers us familiar images which the ego used to bind us to the world of separation for His holy purpose. His purpose is to lead us away from the ego’s lies to the truth of our oneness in the Heart of Love. The images we have used to engender fear and conflict become images calling us to respond with Love. As we let go of our judgments we learn that the Love’s oneness is our Home. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to teach us His perceptions in place of our own.
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