Faith and belief and vision are the means by which the goal of holiness is reached. Through them the Holy Spirit leads you to the real world, and away from all illusions where your faith was laid. This is His direction; the only one He ever sees. And when you wander, He reminds you there is but one [direction]. His faith and His belief and vision are all for you. And when you have accepted them completely instead of yours, you will have need of them no longer. For faith and vision and belief are meaningful only before the state of certainty is reached. In Heaven they are unknown. Yet Heaven is reached through them.
You made perception that you might choose among your brothers, and seek for sin [separation/guilt] with them. The Holy Spirit sees perception as a means to teach you that the vision of a holy relationship is all you want to see. Then will you give your faith to holiness [oneness], desiring and believing in it because of your desire.
Those who would free their brothers from the body can have no fear. They have renounced the means for sin by choosing to let all limitations be removed. As they desire to look upon their brothers in holiness, the power of their belief and faith sees far beyond the body, supporting vision, not obstructing it. But first they chose to recognize how much their faith had limited their understanding of the world, desiring to place its power elsewhere should another point of view be given them. The miracles that follow this decision are also born of faith. For all who choose to look away from sin [separation/guilt] are given vision, and are led to holiness [oneness]. (A Course in Miracles, T-21 III.4;6:5-7;8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
To be free of guilt we need to change our mind about the purpose of what we perceive in the world. The ego’s use for perception is to reinforce our faith and belief in the seeming reality of the dream’s images of separation. We must reach the point of recognizing there may be a different purpose for our dream.
This opens our mind consider the Holy Spirit’s purpose for the world. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose, we overlook the body and images of separation in the world. His vision of our oneness with our Source replaces the ego’s perceptions of separation that justify guilt and fear.
As we withdraw our faith and belief in separation and give them to the Holy Spirit’s vision, we move toward the certainty of Heaven for we have accepted the Holy Spirit’s means for healing our minds. We return to accepting the Love of God is ours.
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