Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge. Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. Therefore, that is its function in truth.
In God you cannot see. Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, [perception] must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. Perception has no meaning. Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.
You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 43, W-pI.43.1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)
The thoughts we are aware of in the world are not our real thoughts. They are hallucinations that seem to make a world in isolation from God. Our only real Thoughts are the Thoughts we share with God. They are Thoughts of extending and joining in Love, because only Love is real.
This lesson is spelling out the essential role the Holy Spirit plays in helping us awaken from a dream of lovelessness. Without the Holy Spirit as our unbreakable link with God, we would have condemned ourselves to a loveless hell with no chance of release.
We must be willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance to help us heal our misperceptions. As we practice daily, minute by minute, maintaining an open mind to receive the Holy Spirit’s perception in place of our own, we are freed from fear and guilt. The ego uses fear and guilt to command our attention. It speaks first and loudly, drawing upon memories of the past to construct false perceptions of harm that we believe are true.
The presence of lack of peace is a sure sign that we are not accepting the Holy Spirit’s perception. Today we practice frequently pausing to step back from thoughts of fear and guilt. We choose instead to welcome the peace of God in our mind. In quietness we receive Holy Spirit’s message that nothing can happen to harm God’s Son, our true Self.
As the Mediator between perception and knowledge, the Holy Spirit teaches us in a form that we can understand. Each time we accept His perception, we accept the Light of Love in our mind. Our thoughts are purified and we move closer to the full remembrance of the Life we live in God.
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