When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did. Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.
God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom. The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist. The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against [separation]. If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle demonstrates this. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.A.1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
Because of our allegiance to the ego, we accept the body as what we are. The body is a symbol made by the ego. But symbols cannot be real. They can only seem real in dreams. The body is made real by our mistaken belief that a symbol could be real. Without this belief, the symbol is disregarded, making way for us to awaken to the reality of our real Mind in the Mind of God.
We awaken from the dream by withdrawing our allegiance from the ego. If we are willing to give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit, He will use the body to teach us that we are not limited to it. We are Mind. We share the one Mind of God with Jesus. He demonstrated that what appeared to happen to his body had no effect on his Life in God. His demonstration shows us that we can do the same. We need only accept the help of the Holy Spirit as he did.
As we give our allegiance to the Holy Spirit in our mind, He will guide us to let go of our mistaken allegiance to the ego and the body. His lessons will teach us that the body cannot limit us. We are free to be Love in the one Mind of Love. We will see that we can let Love be extended through us in a world filled with symbols of separation. As we let the Light of Love illuminate our vision, we see the truth in our brothers with whom we share the one Mind of Love. We awaken from the dream of separation to the truth of the one Self Love created like Itself.
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