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Freeing Ourselves from Belief in Death

Now [true healing’s] forgiveness comes to heal the world and it is ready to depart in peace, the journey over and the lessons learned.

This is not death according to the world, for death is cruel in its frightened eyes and takes the form of punishment for sin. How could it be a blessing, then? And how could it be welcome when it must be feared? What healing has occurred in such a view of what is merely opening the gate to higher prayer and kindly justice done? Death is reward and not a punishment. But such a viewpoint must be fostered by the healing that the world cannot conceive. There is no partial healing. What but shifts illusions has done nothing. What is false cannot be partly true. If you are healed your healing is complete. Forgiveness is the only gift you give and would receive.

False healing rests upon the body’s cure, leaving the cause of illness still unchanged, ready to strike again until it brings a cruel death in seeming victory. It can be held at bay a little while, and there can be brief respite as it waits to take its vengeance on the Son of God. Yet [death] cannot be overcome until all faith in it has been laid by, and placed upon God’s substitute for evil dreams; a world in which there is no veil of sin to keep it dark and comfortless. At last the gate of Heaven opens and God’s Son is free to enter in the home that stands ready to welcome him, and was prepared before time was and still but waits for him. (A Course in Miracles, S-3.II.4:4-6:4)

The lessons we need to learn to free ourselves from death are to recognize truth from illusion. The Course begins by telling us that only Love is real. This is the measure of Truth. The ego belief in separation began with the wish for specialness, to have something we can keep for ourselves alone. This wish denies the oneness of God’s Love. Differences cannot exist in what is one. Having bought into the ego’s thought system of separation, we have taught ourselves to believe that illusions are real and that the reality of God’s Love is untrue.

The lessons we have learned from the ego do not teach us to distinguish truth from illusion. At best they offer veiled substitutes still within the illusion of separation. To free ourselves from this dream world, we need to turn to the Teacher within for His lessons that show us the truth of Love’s Oneness. These lessons teach us that we remain Love as Love created us. They teach us to overlook the images of the world by recognizing they are illusions and have no meaning of their own.

The daily practice of choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide opens our mind to His healing lessons. This is what frees us from fear of death and welcomes true healing. The end result of this practice is our return to the Heaven of God’s changeless Love.

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