What has no meaning cannot be perceived. And meaning always looks within to find itself, and then looks out. All meaning that you give the world outside must thus reflect the sight you saw within; or better, if you saw at all or merely judged against. Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful outcomes of imagined sin [separation] into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them. These gentle sights and sounds are looked on happily, and heard with joy. They are His substitutes for all the terrifying sights and screaming sounds the ego’s purpose brought to your horrified awareness. They step away from sin, reminding you that it is not reality which frightens you, and that the errors which you made can be corrected.
And after vision, who is there who could refuse what must come after? Think but an instant just on this; you can behold the holiness God gave His Son. And never need you think that there is something else for you to see. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VIII.10;11:2-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
If we believe that separation is real, when we look within, we see a separate identity housed in a body, capable of harming and being harmed, that will end in death. We then project a world of separate images that we must defend against or try to protect from decay and death. These are the nightmares projected from the split mind that believes separation is real.
The Holy Spirit sees only our wholeness, our changeless Identity that is Love and nothing else. He sees only innocence because what is changeless and One can neither harm nor be harmed. He offers us His vision in place of our mad hallucinations. With His vision our perception of a guilty and fearful “reality” is replaced by the calm, loving and joyful reality of our Home in Heaven.
Our minds are transformed by this vision. We need only be willing to accept His vision and our nightmares will disappear into the nothingness from which they came. Today we offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision as our own.
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