The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him.
The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. ²Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. ³Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. ⁴Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations. ⁵The idea of the Holy Spirit… is strengthened by being given away. ⁷It increases in you as you give it to your brother. ⁸Your brother does not have to be aware of the Holy Spirit in himself or in you for this miracle to occur. ⁹He may have dissociated the Call for God, just as you have. ¹⁰This dissociation is healed in both of you as you become aware of the Call for God in him, and thus acknowledge Its being.
⁴See him through the Holy Spirit in his mind, and you will recognize Him in yours. ⁵What you acknowledge in your brother you are acknowledging in yourself, and what you share you strengthen.
⁵The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. ⁶He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change. (A Course in Miracles, T-5.III.1:1;2;3:4-5;5:5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The Holy Spirit calls to us incessantly every moment of the day, through every brother. He represents the Thought of Love, our Creator. As we answer His call, we recognize our unity with every brother and our Creator.
His call goes unheard while we choose the ego’s thought system as our own. The ego is the thought of denying Love’s presence. Its divisive wish for specialness blocks awareness of Love’s oneness.
But His Call remains available to us. It needs only our choice to listen in quietness. As we learn to step back from the ego’s chaos to the quietness within our mind, we will learn of Love’s presence everywhere. We will see the Love in our brother and join with It in perfect harmony. This is our calling today and every day.
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