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 Him, 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 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.)
The eternal truth is that only Love is real and Love is one. Our true Self is an extension of God’s Love, eternally united with Him.
This is the opposite of what we experience in the world as an individual identity housed in a body and destined to die. This is a construct of the ego which denies the reality of Love. The world we perceive was made by the ego to hide from Love’s eternal presence. Only our identification with the ego makes this world of conflict, loss, fear and guilt seem real.
God gave us the Holy Spirit to help us undo this mistaken identification. In truth we are not an ego with a separate identity. Our true Self is God’s Son, wholly loving and wholly innocent. To awaken to our true Self, we need to forgive — let go of — our mistaken beliefs that deny the Love we are.
The Holy Spirit’s function is to help us forgive. In our hearts, we want to remember the Love we are. We want to share our Love by joining with the Love that surrounds us everywhere and in everyone. This is the underlying hunger beneath all our searching in the world.
Today we practice opening our hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance. As we are willing to accept His help, He will heal our fear-based thoughts and shine His Light in the world to reveal the presence of Love behind the images of separation. Through this practice we awaken to the Love we are.
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