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Study of the Text V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit. Paragraph 1   1-3-14

V. The Lessons of the Holy Spirit
1 Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. You did not believe in your own perfection. Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. God’s extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. So He thought, “My children sleep and must be awakened.”

When my kids were little they would play pretend. I knew their games were not real. They didn’t become the cop because they played that part, any more than they would become the robber because it was their turn to take that part. I would not sit them down and tell them there was something wrong with them because they were pretending to be something they were not.

After a time I would call them in and sometimes one or the other would still be attached to the game she was playing, and when I tried to talk to her she would stay in her role. It made it impossible to communicate. I would have missed her and want to cuddle and ask about her day, but, she would try to arrest me for robbing the bank. I would have to break the hold her imagination had on her before we could communicate with each other.

My relationship with God is not a whole lot different.  I’m pretending to be something I’m not, and lost in my role as I am, communication with my Father is blocked. Nothing is harmed, not me or God or our relationship. The blocks are not permanent and are being removed now. It is God’s desire to extend Himself as Joy and Love and our imaginative play keeps us from receiving as fully as He gives.

We are asleep to our reality, and dream of illusions in which there exists a gap between us. God communicates oneness and love, but we fail to recognize it because we dream of fear, guilt and defenses. We have gotten lost in our role, but God knows who we are and He knows how to awaken us from our dreamy play. We are learning that it is our truest desire to remember. That is our part. So simple.

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Study of the Text IV. The Only Answer, Paragraph 11   1-1-14

IV. The Only Answer, Paragraph 11
11 That is why the Holy Spirit never commands. To command is to assume inequality, which the Holy Spirit demonstrates does not exist. Fidelity to premises is a law of mind, and everything God created is faithful to His laws. Fidelity to other laws is also possible, however, not because the laws are true, but because you made them. What would be gained if God proved to you that you have thought insanely? Can God lose His Own certainty? I have frequently said that what you teach you are. Would you have God teach you that you have sinned? If He confronted the self you made with the truth He created for you, what could you be but afraid? You would doubt your right mind, which is the only place where you can find the sanity He gave you.

I wonder if there has ever existed a Course student that at one time did not have the wish that God would just wake her up. I certainly did. I just wanted it to be done and didn’t think I ever would be able to do this myself. I questioned why it had to be so hard. Why couldn’t God just pull me out of this illusion? In this paragraph Jesus explains why this cannot happen.

God created us by extending Himself which means we are just like Him. If He came into our dream of something unlike Himself, then what we made would be like Him. He could not do that unless He was as insane and God is not insane. If He were to fix us He would, in effect, be saying that we need fixing and that is not true.

He made us like Himself so could we be incapable of anything; could we be broken? This could be true only if God is incapable and broken. God would not teach us that we are what we are not, which is what He would be doing if He forgave us. He would be teaching us that we sinned and if He did that it would be true. He would never teach us that we have done something wrong in imagining this ego world, because He would be teaching us to doubt our right mind.

Today when I was meditating I was asking Jesus for help and he reminded me not to come as a supplicant, but as an equal Son of God. It is very easy to forget this because in my confused dream of separation I do not seem like the Son of God. This paragraph reminds us that we are equal to the Holy Spirit. The difference is that the Holy Spirit remembers who we are, and we have temporarily forgotten. It reminds us that we can and will awaken.

We will not do this as the ego self, but we will use the ego story of self to undo what we have done. The story of Myron and the story of each of us is a mirror that reflects the beliefs that make up the ego. Through contrasting the effects of these beliefs to the promises of God, we are inspired to abandon our beliefs in favor of Knowledge, which takes their place. We begin to remember who we are.

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