You live by symbols. You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. By this you carve it out of unity. By this you designate its special attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space surrounding it. This space you lay between all things to which you give a different name; all happenings in terms of place and time; all bodies which are greeted by a name.
This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world’s perception is achieved. You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you. Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.
Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. Yet accept them not as your reality. The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name [Identity], one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. Use all the names the world bestows on them [only] for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name [Identity] of God along with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184,W-pI.184.1-2;11. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)
Symbols represent a thing but are not the thing itself. For example, the word “pencil” symbolizes a thing we use to write with. But the word is not the thing. The world of separation we see shows us myriad forms. There are so many forms that we need to spend many years in school learning the names (symbols) for these forms so we can communicate with others who have learned these same symbols.
Yet these names seem to give meaning to forms that are only illusions. An illusion is unreal. But by naming the form we think it has meaning. This is the great deception of the ego thought system. It is self-deception because we have taught ourselves to believe that the names we give the forms make the forms real.
To free ourselves from the limitations of belief in separation, we need to learn that the forms are meaningless. We have been given the Holy Spirit as our inner Teacher to bring us God’s lessons in freedom. As we let the Holy Spirit guide us, we will learn to use the symbols of the world for communication while remembering symbols are not real. Our one Reality lies in our unity with our Creator. We are all united in the oneness of Love.
Today we hold our mind open to the Holy Spirit’s vision that helps us recognize the reality of Love beyond the symbols of the world.
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