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How to Escape from Fear to Love

[“Let me not forget my function”] is merely another way of saying “Let me not wander into temptation.” The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. [The world] is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. It is this the body’s eyes look upon.

Nothing the body’s eyes seem to see can be anything but a form of temptation, since this was the purpose of the body itself. Yet we have learned that the Holy Spirit has another use for all the illusions you have made, and therefore He sees another purpose in them. To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins.

The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness [seeing innocence], because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. The Son of God is you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-pI.64.1-2:3;3:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

It could be said that the body’s eyes give us fake news. The body is an illusion and is capable only of “seeing” illusions, fake images of separation. If we believe the body is our real identity, we will believe the illusions it seems to see are real. The temptation to believe the body is our identity is the temptation to abandon God and His Son, our true Self.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can learn to use all our perceptions in the world as opportunities to see past the false images to the truth of changeless Love. The Holy Spirit sees the illusions we see, but does not believe them. By accepting His vision, we learn to recognize the ego’s illusions as unreal and overlook them. With the Holy Spirit’s vision, we see only Love’s innocence everywhere. The appearance of a brother’s error is recognized as a call for Love and answered with Love. This is how we awaken to our shared one Self, the Son of God.

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