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The Savior’s Vision

To everyone has God entrusted all, because a partial savior would be one who is but partly saved. The holy ones whom God has given you to save are but everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are; all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will yet meet; the unremembered and the not yet born. For God has given you His Son to save from every concept that he ever held.

Yet while you wish to stay in hell [separate from Love’s oneness], how could you be the savior of the Son of God? How would you know his holiness while you see him apart from yours? For holiness is seen through holy eyes that look upon the innocence within, and thus expect to see it everywhere. And so they call it forth in everyone they look upon, that he may be what they expect of him. This is the savior’s vision; that he see his innocence in all he looks upon, and see his own salvation everywhere. He holds no concept of himself between his calm and open eyes and what he sees. He brings the light to what he looks upon, that he may see it as it really is. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VII.10:4-11:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

To be savior to the world, we must first save ourselves. We save ourselves by letting go of (forgiving) the image of ourselves as a separate identity. As long as we hold a wish to have a separate, special identity different from all ‘others,’ we keep ourselves in hell. The illusion of harm and justification for guilt can only appear real to a separate image of our self. Innocence is universal in the oneness of Love.

Letting go of judgment, forgiving all appearances of harm, clears the way for Christ’s vision in our holy mind. When every thought of separation is released, we have accepted our holiness in place of the wish for specialness. Now we see the face of Christ in everyone for we have seen Christ within. We release the false image of our self by bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to receive His perception in their place. His vision shows us face of Christ in every circumstance. This is how we learn to forgive and be savior to the world.

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The Key to Release from Fear

Redemption has been given you to give your brother, and thus receive it. Whom you forgive is free, and what you give you share. Forgive the sins your brother thinks he has committed, and all the guilt you think you see in him.

Give faith to your brother, for faith and hope and mercy are yours to give. Into the hands that give, the gift is given. Look on your brother, and see in him the gift of God you would receive.

Together we will disappear into the Presence beyond the veil, not to be lost but found; not to be seen but known. And knowing, nothing in the plan God has established for salvation will be left undone. This is the journey’s purpose, without which is the journey meaningless. Here is the peace of God, given to you eternally by Him. Here is the rest and quiet that you seek, the reason for the journey from its beginning. Heaven is the gift you owe your brother, the debt of gratitude you offer to the Son of God in thanks for what he is, and what his Father created him to be. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.D.15:8-10;17:1-3;19. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We give faith to our brother by seeing him as the Christ, the one Self we share as God’s one Son. As we look on our brother as Christ, he reflects the Christ back to us. He becomes the mirror that shows us the truth of What we are.

When we judge our brother as an ego and see him as guilty, he becomes a mirror showing us the ego we think we are. The ego always sees its guilt reflected in the world it perceives. The Christ in us always sees its innocence reflected everywhere.

Judgment denies innocence. That is why forgiving our brothers wholly, without exception, is the only meaningful purpose for our journey in the world. It is the key to release from fear. Forgiveness clears the way for acceptance of the Love that is our brother and ourself, united as the Son of God.

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Accepting the Reality of Love’s Oneness

Until forgiveness is complete, the world does have a purpose. It becomes the home in which forgiveness is born, and where it grows and becomes stronger and more all-embracing. …It is [Holy Spirit’s] Call God’s teachers answer, turning to Him in silence to receive His Word. The world will end when all things in it have been rightly judged by His judgment. The world will end with the benediction of holiness upon it. When not one thought of sin remains, the world is over. It will not be destroyed nor attacked nor even touched. It will merely cease to seem to be.

The illusion of orders of difficulty is an obstacle the teacher of God must learn to pass by and leave behind. One sin perfectly forgiven by one teacher of God can make salvation complete. Can you understand this? No; it is meaningless to anyone here. Yet it is the final lesson in which unity is restored. It goes against all the thinking of the world, but so does Heaven.

The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed. Until then, bits and pieces of its thinking will still seem sensible. The final lesson, which brings the ending of the world, cannot be grasped by those not yet prepared to leave the world and go beyond its tiny reach. What, then, is the function of the teacher of God in this concluding lesson? He need merely learn how to approach it; to be willing to go in its direction. He need merely trust that, if God’s Voice tells him it is a lesson he can learn, he can learn it. He does not judge it either as hard or easy. His Teacher points to it, and he trusts that He will show him how to learn it. (A Course in Miracles, M-14.2:1-2,7-12;3:6-4:8)

The moment the illusion of separation was accepted as true, God gave His Answer to neutralize this mistaken belief. The insane illusion was instantly replaced with the means to awaken to the Truth. But for us to experience the end of the world of separation, we must learn that separation could never be real; separation never happened in Truth.

The means to awaken from the dream of separation is forgiveness (overlooking what never happened). When we accept Holy Spirit’s lesson in forgiveness, we clearly see that what seemed to happen in the world never really occurred. We are able to overlook what never happened. This lesson must be applied to all our perceptions. When we no longer hold back anything from forgiveness, we will no longer see a purpose for the illusion of separation. The world will simply cease to seem to be.

The fact that salvation from illusion has already been accomplished is not understandable to the mind that believes in the thought system of separation. Through forgiveness we learn to let go of our barriers to Love’s presence. When we have let all barriers go, we will know that only Love is real. We will accept the salvation that has always been true in eternity. Through forgiveness, we step out of time into the eternity of Heaven.

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Only the Unity of Love Is Real

What is true in earth and Heaven is beyond your naming.

It would indeed be strange if you were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever; yet were asked to take a teaching function. You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. But be you not deceived by them as well. They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. [The symbols of the world] become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.

Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name [Identity] which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.8:3;9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

We have been carefully taught to distinguish all things in the world from each other. It is a skill needed to function in the world. This learning makes the world seem real to us because it seems to give it meaning. Yet the way to return to the reality that we remain unified with our Identity in God is to learn to not believe that any of the forms and symbols in the world are real.

The ego defends the belief in separation with all its guile for when we stop believing in the reality of the world of form, the ego will disappear. We will remember that we share our Identity with our Creator. In the Light of this remembrance the dark shadow of the ego will disappear.

The daily practice of taking time to quiet our minds and welcome the peace of God within us will help us loosen our attachment to the meaning we have given the world. We will begin to be aware of the formless, nameless Unity beyond the form. We will feel the comfort and safety of this Unity we share with All That is. As we let ourselves experience this, we can bring that experience into the world. It will help us be less reactive to appearances, for we are remembering more and more that only the Unity of Love is real.

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Forgiveness Recognizes Innocence

My holiness envelops everything I see. From my holiness does the perception of the real world come. Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty. I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me. Seen through understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.

And what are all illusions except false ideas about myself? My holiness undoes them all by asserting the truth about me. In the presence of my holiness, which I share with God Himself, all idols vanish.

I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of Who I am. My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things. His care for me is infinite, and is with me forever. I am eternally blessed as His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 58, W-pI.58.1;3:4-6;5:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 58 Insights.)

We are holy because we share the oneness of God. God is our completion as we, His one Son, complete Him. There is no separation or difference between What we are and What God Is. All His Love, His peace, His joy is ours.

We do not experience ourselves as holy because we have accepted the ego thought system of separation. Separation is demonstrated by illusions of isolation, differences, loss and deprivation. This appears to be the world we live in only because we have accepted separation as real. This belief makes our holiness invisible to us. As we learn to forgive this belief, the veil of separation fades and the Light of our holiness shines through. This Light shines away the illusions that portray our belief in separation.

Forgiveness welcomes the truth of What we are. Forgiveness accepts our holiness. As we forgive, the Love that we are fills our heart and joins with the Love that is everyone. Love is innocent and sees only innocence. Love is holy and sees only holiness. This is how we bring salvation to the world.

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How to Bring Joy to the World

You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God’s plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs.

Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.

He will be there. And you can reach Him now. …What foolish goal can keep you from success when He Who calls to you is God Himself?

He will be there. You are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find what He would have you give. …It is your Self Who calls to you today. And it is Him you answer, every time you tell yourself you are essential to God’s plan for the salvation of the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 100, W-pI.100.4;8:5;9:1-2,5;10:1-4,6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 100 Insights.)

“Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” (Lesson 121) It is our judgments that make us sad, angry, guilty and sick. It is our judgments that draw a veil across the face of Christ. It is our judgments that separate us from God and every brother.

God’s plan for our salvation is His gift to help us release our judgments — the Holy Spirit, our Guide to happiness. The practice of bringing all our judgments to the Holy Spirit is the path to accepting God’s Will for our perfect happiness. As we learn not to make any judgments on our own, our joy increases.

The appearances in the world have less and less effect on our happiness. We learn that God is always there for us. His Will is ours. The attraction of specialness fades, for we experience increasing joy as we let Holy Spirit’s judgment help us look past appearances to the eternal presence of God’s Love. This is our purpose. This is how we bring joy to the world and ourselves.

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Forgiveness Through the Holy Spirit’s Help

Atonement is for all, because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon [error], for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is [the Son of God], if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity [as the Son of God] is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. Do not let any belief in [error’s] realness enter your mind…. What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. By steadily and consistently cancelling out all [error’s] effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

Follow the Holy Spirit’s teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. …Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit’s plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1;5;6:1,3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We are not asked to deny that we perceive fear and guilt, attack and death, in the world. But we are directed to ask the Holy Spirit’s help to correct our perception. The Holy Spirit knows that nothing perceived through the ego thought system of separation exists. When we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to correct our perception, we will learn that our perception of harm is merely the effect of a false belief.

With Holy Spirit’s help, we are able to overlook the effects of ego beliefs because He shows us that these seeming effects are not true. With the Holy Spirit’s help we overlook what is untrue and has no real effects to see the Son of God instead of identifying with the ego. Each time we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, the seeming reality of the ego’s world fades and we recognize with increasing certainty that only the oneness of Love is real.

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