⁴The real world, in its loveliness, you learn to reach. ⁵Fantasies are all undone, and no one and nothing remain still bound by them, and by your own forgiveness you are free to see. ⁶Yet what you see is only what you made, with the blessing of your forgiveness on it. ⁷And with this final blessing of God’s Son upon himself, the real perception, born of the new perspective he has learned, has served its purpose.
²Perception will be meaningless when it has been perfected, for everything that has been used for learning will have no function. ³Nothing will ever change; no shifts nor shadings, no differences, no variations that made perception possible will still occur.
The real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. ²The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. ³In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. ⁴Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. ⁵Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release. (A Course in Miracles, T-17.II.3:4-7;4:2-3;5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we identified with the ego, we accepted its lessons which taught us to believe that separation is real. The effect of this decision is the world we experience as a body. To free ourselves from this world of fear and guilt we need to choose a different Teacher. His lessons teach us how to forgive our mistaken beliefs to learn that only Love is real.
As we learn these lessons, our perception is purified. When forgiveness is complete, true perception shows us the Love beyond all the fantasy images we made in our allegiance to the ego. These images no longer have meaning to us for we know only the oneness of Love is real.
We need not be concerned about when we will reach true perception. We need only be vigilant to let the Holy Spirit teach us how to forgive our misperceptions. This practice will return us to the realization of the Love we are in the Heart of God.
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