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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 4. 3-19-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 4
4 All abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit, Who understands how to use them properly. He uses them only for healing, because He knows you only as whole. By healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God. You have forgotten Him, but the Holy Spirit understands that your forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering.

The way to be certain that our abilities are properly used is to give them to the Holy Spirit. He will then guide and direct their use. He will use them for healing and this healing will remind us of our wholeness. As we remember that we are whole and that we are one, we will remember God. What can any experience on earth give us that would be as meaningful as to remember God.

If you ask me who I am, I will tell you that I am God’s Son, His creation and the extension of Himself. I am in God and part of God. I am holy and I am whole. That is who I am. Those are more than words to me now, but they are not all there is to know. What I yearn for is to Know my Self. To remember my Self. I want to know, not who I am, but what I am. I want to remember God so that I can remember what I am.

What does it feel like to be our holy Self, Jesus? That is what I want to know and what I want to be. I want to be awakened to that. I gladly give all my abilities to Spirit and I ask that He guide me to use them in whatever way would be useful to us all. When I become distracted by the worldly attractions and imagine some other purpose for my abilities, I ask that my holy Self, gently shake me back awake.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 3. 3-18-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 3
3 The ego does not want to teach everyone all it has learned, because that would defeat its purpose. Therefore it does not really learn at all. The Holy Spirit teaches you to use what the ego has made, to teach the opposite of what the ego has “learned.” The kind of learning is as irrelevant as is the particular ability that was applied to the learning. All you need do is make the effort to learn, for the Holy Spirit has a unified goal for the effort. If different abilities are applied long enough to one goal, the abilities themselves become unified. This is because they are channelized in one direction, or in one way. Ultimately, then, they all contribute to one result, and by so doing, their similarity rather than their differences is emphasized.

I have an ability to write clearly. I use this ability to help us wake up. I have developed the ability to hear the Voice for God. I use that ability to help us wake up. I have the ability to speak effectively. I use that ability to help us wake up. I have the ability to teach, and I use that ability to help us wake up. If I was given the ability of clairvoyance I would use it to help us wake up.

All abilities that are given me are used for the same purpose, just as all circumstances in my life are used for that purpose. Spirit guides me to use all things for the same purpose and this consistency makes them all the same. All my gifts are simply the gift to help achieve the one purpose.

How does this differ from the way the ego uses abilities? The ego sees the abilities as a way to differentiate itself from others. If used by the ego maybe I would use the ability to write as a way to become famous, and the ability to speak as a way to make others smaller so I would seem bigger. Maybe I would use the ability to teach as a way to make a living and if I was clairvoyant, maybe I would use that to prove I was special.

The ego uses everything for different purposes. The gifts have different meanings according to the goal that is to be achieved, and different meanings depending on the person using the gift. The one thing they have in common is that the ego use of gifts always leads to separation and specialness. So no matter how successful the use of the gift, the result inevitably leads away from the Kingdom.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 2. 3-17-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 2

2 The Holy Spirit must work through you to teach you He is in you. This is an intermediary step toward the knowledge that you are in God because you are part of Him. The miracles the Holy Spirit inspires can have no order of difficulty, because every part of creation is of one order. This is God’s Will and yours. The laws of God establish this, and the Holy Spirit reminds you of it. When you heal, you are remembering the laws of God and forgetting the laws of the ego. I said before that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly perceived. Perceived improperly, it induces a perception of conflict with something else, as all incorrect perception does. Properly perceived, it can be used as a way out of conflict, as all proper perception can.

I remember when I joined a Unity church I was told that God is in me.  This was a new concept for me but I embraced it. Later when I began to study A Course in Miracles I decided that really, I must be in God. I felt that was true but couldn’t fully wrap my mind around it. That was because I still saw myself as a body and separate and as if all things are separate.

Slowly as I allowed my mind to be healed more and more, I realized there is no separation. Separation is just an illusion, a magic trick. Very realistic, but still just a trick. Then I could accept more completely that I am in God, as is all living things. I have no problem with this idea now. The shift that is occurring for me now is that the idea is moving from the head to the heart. It is becoming something more than a concept.

Just as I had to ease into the concept, I have had to ease into the actuality of it. The way this is done for me is that I experience God moving through me. I ask for clarity and it comes through me. I ask for words to explain this clarity and they are given to me. I ask for the perfect way to help someone and the help comes through me. This is an intermediary step toward the knowledge that I am in God because I am part of Him.

As I feel that I am part of God, I naturally let go of the idea that there is an order of difficulty in miracles. I forget the rules of the world which dictate that everything is ordered by size and position, by difficulty and ease. That law used to be so self evident to me, and now it is an artifact, a relic of a belief left behind through no effort on my part, just as a natural progression as I open more and more to the truth.

In the world, forgetting is the opposite of remembering. But the Holy Spirit uses it differently. I must set aside what I now believe so I can make room for the truth. I forget the laws of the world so that I can fully remember the laws of God.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 1. 3-14-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth
1 Truth can only be recognized and need only be recognized. Inspiration is of the Holy Spirit, and certainty is of God according to His laws. Both, therefore, come from the same Source, since inspiration comes from the Voice for God and certainty comes from the laws of God. Healing does not come directly from God, Who knows His creations as perfectly whole. Yet healing is still of God, because it proceeds from His Voice and from His laws. It is their result, in a state of mind that does not know Him. The state is unknown to Him and therefore does not exist, but those who sleep are unaware. Because they are unaware, they do not know.

Well this is certainly good news. Basically, Jesus is telling us that nothing is wrong. The problem is, we are unaware that nothing is wrong, and so we still act as if it is wrong. We are in God, a part of Him, and so what we think of as our life could never be happening in truth, only in dreams. We can imagine a life of pain and suffering, but can pain and suffering be in God? Of course not. So it cannot be happening to us because we are in God.

When we began to imagine life outside reality, God placed the Truth in our mind so that we could not become lost in our dreams. Now that we are ready to wake up from the dream of separation, the Truth (Holy Spirit) has been activated. We wake up because we want to wake up, and the Holy Spirit is our Guide through the process of waking.

Exactly how this happens varies with each of us. The Holy Spirit knows the path our soul is to take and arranges each moment of our lives according to that path and in perfect timing. We really don’t have to worry about any of that. We need only notice what is happening in our lives and our minds with a desire to become aware of our true selves. The healing is done of God through His Voice.

This is very exciting, isn’t it? If we thought it would be interesting to experience an illusory existence, it is even more thrilling to watch the Truth unfold as we return our awareness to God.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: III.The Reality of the Kingdom, Paragraph 5. 3-12-14

III. The Reality of the Kingdom, Paragraph 5
5 God has lit your mind Himself, and keeps your mind lit by His Light because His Light is what your mind is. This is totally beyond question, and when you question it you are answered. The Answer merely undoes the question by establishing the fact that to question reality is to question meaninglessly. That is why the Holy Spirit never questions. His sole function is to undo the questionable and thus lead to certainty. The certain are perfectly calm, because they are not in doubt. They do not raise questions, because nothing questionable enters their minds. This holds them in perfect serenity, because this is what they share, knowing what they are.

Everything about the ego mind is the opposite of reality. In the ego mind we question everything. Nothing is absolute. Everything is unstable, doubtful, and uncertain. The more “advanced” science becomes the less we actually know and with each advancement we feel the sand shift beneath our feet as we wake up to discover what we were told yesterday is not longer true today. We seem to get smaller and more insignificant as we discover the vastness of the universe.

But there is in our mind a Light. We never lose that Light because it was placed there by God and so it is what we are. In this Light there is Knowledge that is certain and unchanging. Here questioning is unheard of because there is nothing to question. Here we have no doubts and so we have no fears. In the Light, doubt and fear are unknown. In the Light we are the vastness in which the universes exist.

What incredibly powerful beings we are that we can block from our awareness the brilliant Light that we are, and block it so completely that we must be taught what is already known. And so like not very bright students we muck around in our classroom, our eyes tightly closed against the obvious, pretending we have questions that need answers. The Holy Spirit answers us with the truth: There are no answers because there are no questions.

We will not be taught to make sense of the nonsensical. We will simply be led out of our delusions into Reality. In the end, the only thing that happens is that we open our eyes (metaphorically speaking) to what is right here. We spend all our time learning that there is nothing to learn. We already are what we seek. Sometimes I giggle when I think about this. Imagine how we will laugh when the truth finally dawns on our mind.

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