²The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. ³It is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance.
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. ²Yet 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. ³To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins. ⁴In this perception, the physical appearance of temptation becomes the spiritual recognition of salvation.
…your function here is to be the light of the world, a function given you by God.… ³The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. ⁴The Son of God is you.
²Let me not forget my function.
³Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.
⁴Let me forgive and be happy. (A Course in Miracles, W-64.1:2-3;2;3:1,3-4;6:2-4). See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.
Forgiveness brings happiness. As we learn to see beyond appearances in the world, we see that they are not real and can have no effect on our Reality as God’s Son. If we are willing, the Holy Spirit will show us the purpose of everything we see with the body’s perceptions.
To receive the Holy Spirit’s help, we can remind ourselves that we do not know what anything means. We can ask the Holy Spirit to show us His purpose in place of the meaning we have given it. With this practice, all our perceptions serve the purpose of forgiveness as we accept the Holy Spirit’s help. This is how we become a Light in the world where Love’s Light is denied.
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