There is no substitute for the Will of God. In simple statement, it is to this fact that the teacher of God devotes his day. Each substitute he may accept as real can but deceive him. But he is safe from all deception if he so decides. Perhaps he needs to remember, “God is with me. I cannot be deceived.” Perhaps he prefers other words, or only one, or none at all. Yet each temptation to accept magic as true must be abandoned through his recognition, not that it is fearful, not that it is sinful, not that it is dangerous, but merely that it is meaningless. Rooted in sacrifice and separation, two aspects of one error and no more, he merely chooses to give up all that he never had. And for this “sacrifice” is Heaven restored to his awareness.
“There is no will but God’s.” His teachers know that this is so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. All belief in magic is maintained by just one simple-minded illusion; — that it works. All through his training, every day and every hour, and even every minute and second, must God’s teachers learn to recognize the forms of magic and perceive their meaninglessness. Fear is withdrawn from them, and so they go. And thus the gate of Heaven is reopened, and its light can shine again on an untroubled mind. (A Course in Miracles, M-16.10;11:6-11)
The fact that there is no will but God’s is why only Love is real. Joy and peace are attributes of Love. Thus God’s will for us is perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed.
If we are not experiencing God’s Love and peace and joy, then we have accepted a will that is different from God’s Will. It is a false will that can have no real effect, but our acceptance of it makes it seem that it has an effect. Acceptance of this false will as a substitute for God’s Will is why we experience fear, guilt, pain and loss.
Yet these are only the effect of magic thoughts which come from belief in a will separate from God’s. If we want to be healed and to heal, we must be willing to recognize that the idea of a will separate from God’s is meaningless. Being meaningless, it can have no effect.
We free ourselves to return to the Heaven of God’s Love by being vigilant for these magic thoughts and giving them to the Holy Spirit to be corrected. This is how we learn to see past the false to the eternal truth that only Love is real.
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