Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.
Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not.
This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. You know the ancient song, and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.I.7:5-9:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
To know our Self, we are called to accept the vision of the Son of God. It is our true vision. What we have called seeing with the body’s eyes is actually hallucinating, The body itself is an illusion and can perceive only illusions. The choice to accept what the body’s eyes show us is to choose blindness as our reality. It makes us blind to the truth of our unity with All That is — the Love of God.
Today let us join together in the practice of asking the Holy Spirit’s help to receive the vision of God’s Son. We want to know and accept our Self. Our heart’s sole desire is to be the Love That it is.
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