The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him. ²I have already said that the Holy Spirit is the Bridge for the transfer of perception to knowledge…
The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. ³Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. ⁴Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. ⁵The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. ⁷It increases in you as you give it to your brother. ⁸Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. ⁹He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. ¹⁰This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.
⁴See [your brother] through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. ⁵What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.
⁵The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. ⁶He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1-2;2;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The principal that ideas do not leave their source is the key to understanding that we, His Son, are God’s idea. This idea is the Thought of Love. God is only Love so His only Thought is Love. His Will is to share this Thought yet It remains held within His Mind. The shared Thought of Love created His extension, His Son with all His attributes. The attribute of sharing makes the Thought of Love extend forever.
The ego is the wish not to share and therefore cannot know the Reality of Love. While we identify with the ego’s wish for separation and specialness, we cannot experience or know Love. The wish to not share stands as a wall that guards us from the intrusion of Love. This wall is held in place only by a belief.
God gave us the Holy Spirit as a Bridge to transcend the wall the ego hides behind. Because of our engagement with the ego, we cannot understand the oneness and changelessness of God’s Love. But as a Bridge, the Holy Spirit translates the reality of Love into forms we can grasp while we believe we are within the limited perspective of the ego.
To connect with this bridge we must welcome peace into our mind. The Holy Spirit is dwells in peace. When we welcome His peace, we can recognize the Holy Spirit in our brothers. With His help, the barriers we have accepted that separate us from our brothers are undone.
Today we practice welcoming peace to let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our mistaken beliefs. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s undoing of our false beliefs, we remember the Thought of Love that is our true Self.
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