It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and cannot bless.
Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there should be light.
Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Source has given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker [ego]. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 92, W-pI.92.3:3-5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 92 Insights.)
Here the Course defines Light and Strength as attributes of God and His Love. As it says in the introduction to the Course, “Only Love is real.” Anything other than Love must be an illusion and therefore has no power of its own. Only our belief in the reality of appearances seems to give them strength.
God gave all of Himself and all His attributes to His Son — our Self. We were given the Light of God in our Creation. It remains the truth of What we are. This Light and Strength remain with us eternally. It is only a mistaken belief that makes it unknown to us. We need to remind ourselves that Light and Strength abide in us because we have convinced ourselves that we live in the darkness of the ego.
This is part of the process the Course is leading us through to undo our mistaken beliefs. As we remember that God’s Light and Strength abide in us, the darkness of the ego thought system is dispelled. We free ourselves from wandering in darkness and awaken to the Light of our true Self.
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