Christ’s vision has one law. ²It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. ³It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. ⁴It sees no separation. ⁵And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.
This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. ²It requires but the recognition that the world can not give anything that faintly can compare with this in value; nor set up a goal that does not merely disappear when this has been perceived. ³And this you give today: See no one as a body. ⁴Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.
Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all.
³This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. ⁴If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. ⁵Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-158.7:1–9:1;10:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)
All our judgments are judgments on ourselves. We disguise these judgments by projecting them on an outside world. All our distress, unhappiness, fear and guilt are the effects on these judgments. They maintain the belief that we are separate from the Love of our Creator.
Christ is the Self that knows It is eternally united with our Father. Christ’s vision sees past all our judgments, for it sees with forgiving eyes. It does not overlook anything that is real. It looks only on the reality of Love.
Today we welcome Christ’s vision, which shows us the Love that is in everything, everywhere. It sees the unity with our Father that can never be broken. In this unity we know our innocence and find the peace of God.
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