In your questioning of illusions, ask yourself if it is really sane to perceive what was as now. ⁷If you remember the past as you look upon your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is now.
…the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of light. ⁵And only if you are would you choose to bring darkness with you, and by holding it in your mind, see it as a dark cloud that shrouds your brothers and conceals their reality from your sight.
This darkness is in you. ²The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release. ³For if He is as He was created, there is no guilt in Him. ⁴No cloud of guilt has risen to obscure Him, and He stands revealed in everyone you meet because you see Him through Himself. ⁵To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. ⁶The cloud that obscures God’s Son to you is the past, and if you would have it past and gone, you must not see it now. ⁷If you see it now in your illusions, it has not gone from you, although it is not there.
The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again. ²His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him. ³And since his past is yours, you share in this release. ⁴Let no dark cloud out of your past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VI.1:6-7;2:4–3:7;5:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we are afraid of the oneness of Love, we are afraid of light. The world as we see it was made by the ego to hide from the Light of Love. We see only the ego’s dark shadows made up of images from the past projected on the present to keep us unaware of Love’s presence now.
To awaken to the Love we are, we need to be vigilant to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see our brothers as the Love they are now, free of projections from the past. With this practice we will see the one Self we share with every brother reflected back to us. As we release our brothers from the past we see in him, we release our own past to know our true Self as we are in every present moment.
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