Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love. Are these inherent in the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real, and cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false, for God’s creation is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made [the world] and [your thoughts] must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.
Release the world! Your real creations [extensions of Love] wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, [or] the Son begin as something separate from Him.
There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.11-13. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)
Only Love is real and only Love creates by extending Itself. These facts are the core upon which the message of A Course in Miracles is built. By believing in a world of bodies and images of separation, we are denying the truth by believing in the lies of the ego, which itself is a denial of Love.
We release the world by denying the lies of the ego and accepting the reality of Love and only Love. We have become so engaged with the ego’s illusions that it seems impossible that anything but fear and guilt, pain, sickness and death are real. Evan death does not seem to be an escape. The ego would have us believe that our guilt will pursue us beyond the death of the body.
But there is a way out, which the ego will never teach us. To find our way out, we must realign our allegiance from the ego to the Voice for God in our mind. It will teach us that we are not the image of a body; that we remain as God created us. When we are willing to let the Holy Spirit direct our thoughts, He will patiently and lovingly teach us to recognize the lies of the ego for what they are. He will teach us to overlook the lies and see the eternal presence of Love in which we live in perfect safety and timelessness. We will learn to see that Love in every brother and ourselves.
Today we practice asking frequently,
Holy Spirit, show me how you would see this. Help me to respond to this perception with Love, for I would remember Who I am.
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