Only if it were possible the Son of God could leave his Father’s Mind, make himself different, and oppose His Will, would it be possible that the self he made, and all it made, should be his master.
Behold the great projection, but look on it with the decision that it must be healed, and not with fear. Nothing you made has any power over you unless you still would be apart from your Creator, and with a will opposed to His. For only if you would believe His Son could be His enemy does it seem possible that what you made is yours. You would condemn His joy to misery, and make Him different. And all the misery you made has been your own. Are you not glad to learn it is not true? Is it not welcome news to hear not one of the illusions that you made replaced the truth? (A Course in Miracles, T-22.II.9:6-10:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
It does seem difficult to believe that everything we perceive in the world is an illusion, a projection of our own mind. We cannot dismiss it by proclaiming, “It’s just an illusion.” If anything we perceive in the world interferes with our joy or disturbs our peace, we are believing the world is real, not an illusion.
If we are willing, the Holy Spirit will use these disruptive and disturbing perceptions to bring our attention to the need to heal our minds. We can bring these perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision in their place. This is how we heal our mind. This is how we loose the world from all we thought it was.
Through this process, we learn to see the illusions of the world for what they are — not through proclamation but through accepting a new vision received of the Holy Spirit. This is how we learn to distinguish illusion from truth. This is how we learn to recognize our brother as our savior, at one with us.
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