I will there be light.
³The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. ⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷[The ego’s wishes] make nothing that is real.
Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain [the world], peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. ⁴They stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁵Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. ²The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. ³Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. ⁴Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles, W–pI.73.1:3–2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)
The ego’s projections are an attempt to disown its inherent guilt for denying God’s Love. Our projections thus are a mirror of what we believe about ourself. We are not the ego — never were, never can be. We were created by Love and forever one in Love.
The fact that the world is our projection can be key to our awakening if we let the Holy Spirit use our projections as teaching aids. This is how all things in the world become lessons God would have us learn. The core of His lesson is we are Love and nothing else. The Holy Spirit teaches us to recognize that our projections are effects of our mistaken beliefs. With His help, we learn to let go of the projections and see beyond them to the Love that unites us with every brother.
Appearances of lack of Love in any form are recognized as calls for Love. Since projections come from our own mind, these appearances reflect our own calls for Love. Today we are willing to learn the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.
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