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Study of Text: C 15, VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 7. 3-2-18

VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 7
7 It is through us that peace will come. Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate. If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand Selfhood. And therein is love’s meaning understood. But remember that understanding is of the mind, and only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. If you were not an idea, and nothing but an idea, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, you will not remember the language of communication, which you know perfectly.

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We think we are communicating when we talk to each other, but Jesus is explaining to us that this is not communication. Communication is of the mind; it is ideas in the mind, shared within the mind. This is hard to grasp while we are confused about our very nature. While I think I am a body, I can only use words to try to communicate and that is not very effective.

Words have different meanings to different people and even to oneself at different times and under different circumstances. They differ according to culture as well. We use words to convey what we think of as truth but we also use them to convey what we want others to believe rather than what is actually true. Words are very unreliable.

Eventually, everyone begins to accept that they are not just a body. They begin to see themselves as body and spirit, or maybe body, mind, and spirit. This is a step forward but is not the truth, so communication remains imperfect. There are still misunderstandings and the sense of union that comes from true sharing is fleeting and easily disrupted through miscommunication.

What we are is an idea in the Mind of God. At first, I didn’t understand this at all. I was too immersed in the idea of form. I felt like I was the image I had made of myself rather than the maker of the image. How could a body be an idea? The body seemed so substantial, so real. And yet, I am beginning to understand that form is the illusion and ideas are the substantial reality.

With this understanding, I am able to more often choose peace, whereas before, I didn’t know peace was a choice. I thought I was peaceful when the images I made were peaceful. I thought I taught peace when I talked about peace or spoke in a peaceful manner. Now I see differently. If I notice that I am not at peace I remember what I am, and in making that choice I become aware of peace. My awareness of peace is communicated and ripples throughout the mind where it is shared with all. This is communication.

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Manual for Teachers: 7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 3. 3-1-18

7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 3
3 It is in this that the teacher of God must trust. This is what is really meant by the statement that the one responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. The teacher of God is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. Yet he must first accept them. He need do no more, nor is there more that he could do. By accepting healing he can give it. If he doubts this, let him remember Who gave the gift and Who received it. Thus is his doubt corrected. He thought the gifts of God could be withdrawn. That was a mistake, but hardly one to stay with. And so the teacher of God can only recognize it for what it is, and let it be corrected for him.

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The teachers of God give only what they have accepted for themselves. That is why our only function in this world is to accept the Atonement for ourselves. Having done this we just naturally give what has been given us and we become miracle workers. We heal because we have been healed.

There will be times when we might slip back into ego thinking and that’s OK. We simply ask for correction and accept it, just as we have learned to do. When we doubt our ability to heal something or someone or we doubt that it can be healed, this is just another slip into ego. Believing that we must repeat healing is also a slip into ego. The solution remains the same; we accept the Atonement in this situation.

What I have noticed is that when someone asks for prayers for something that is still an issue for me, I feel doubt, and I may want to offer warnings or ways to fix the situation in a worldly way. For instance, I used to feel confused about relationships and if someone asked for help in that area I would suggest another person they could talk to.

As I accepted the Atonement in my relationships and they healed, I became clear in that area and now I don’t hesitate to work with someone on theirs. If they trigger something in me, I feel it and I step back to receive healing myself. Generally, this doesn’t take very long at all because of the healing I have already received.

Now when this happens, I am very grateful to see what I need to heal in my own mind. The last time it happened, I felt some general discomfort as the person was talking to me about her issues, so I asked the Holy Spirit to show me what I needed to see. I had a quick memory of a time when something similar happened to me and had never been forgiven. I forgave it and then I was ready to offer the healing I had accepted for myself.

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Study of Text: C 15, VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 6. 2-28-18

VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 6
6 In the holy instant nothing happens that has not always been. Only the veil that has been drawn across reality is lifted. Nothing has changed. Yet the awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside. No one who has not yet experienced the lifting of the veil, and felt himself drawn irresistibly into the light behind it, can have faith in love without fear. Yet the Holy Spirit gives you this faith, because He offered it to me and I accepted it. Fear not the holy instant will be denied you, for I denied it not. And through me the Holy Spirit gives it unto you, as you will give it. Let no need you perceive obscure your need of this. For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what is needed.

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Once again, I am so grateful to my Brother for leading the way. It is because he accepted the Atonement that it is mine to accept. The awareness of reality is ours because he lifted the veil first. I think of people who have lifted the veil since then, especially the ones who are living now and are people I can relate to, and it gives me hope.

I want this very much. Jesus says that I can have it. He says it will not be denied me because he did not deny it. He says, “Let no need you perceive obscure your need of this.” I wonder what need I think is so important that I let it obscure the need for the holy instant?  I have a lot of little needs that float in and out of my consciousness, things like losing weight, but I don’t think that is it.

I think these obscuring needs must be grievances and judgments. I checked my bank balance just a few minutes ago and noticed the bank clerk deposited my money into my checking even though I asked her to put it in my savings, and for just a moment I felt annoyed with her. Lesson 21 says that annoyance is nothing but a veil drawn over intense fury. Jeez! That’s crazy.

But it is an example, I think, of the value I place on grievances. It seems that I am resisting the holy instant so that I can be furious at a nice lady for a simple error. I did, however, catch it quickly and I changed my mind just as quickly, so there is that. I would be discouraged with myself except that Jesus reassures me that I will have the holy instant and he also reminds me that it has gone nowhere. It may be obscured, but it has not ceased to exist.

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Study of Text: C 15, VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 5. 2-22-18

VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 5
5 In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect love is in him. In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. By holding it within itself, there is no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. From this it follows you can only give. And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God. In the holy instant the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all. When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound, or limited in any way. In that instant he is as free as God would have him be. For the instant he refuses to be bound, he is not bound.

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This world is a world of scarcity and without love. But we are not of this world and we are not meant to accept this as reality. The only way to be love in this world is to know that you are one with all. Without the idea of separation being true, you know your brother when you meet him. You know who he is and you know that you are one with each other. You know you are meeting yourself in another disguise. If you are one with all there is, how could there be scarcity? You have everything and you are everything and so you give freely without limit or concern.

You are like God in every way and God gives and gives and gives. He gave all of Himself to you in your creation, and your creation is endless. It is happening now and now you are receiving God and this is what sustains you. Because you are like God, it is your deepest desire to give as He gives and when you don’t you suffer. That little ego thought that is scarcity and that still exists in your vast and holy mind cannot be real because it is not part of your creation. There is no place in God for scarcity and so none in you.

Miserly giving does not come from your created mind. It comes from that tiny thought of separation on which you still place your attention. Remember to laugh at that thought and it will fade away into nothingness in an instant. Nothing can bind you to poverty of love except your desire to be a personal self with a will apart from your true will in God. Your memory will return and with it your joy and the peace of God.

Jesus came to remind you that you are abundant and if you listen and accept his gift, that abundance will translate into an abundant world before it disappears. You will dream a happy dream before you awaken from the dream. You will assist him in waking your brothers. How you will laugh when you see past the body and realize it is only your Self you meet. How funny this ego thought will seem to you when you realize there is nothing to take because it is already yours. And how peaceful you will be when there is no one to compete with and nothing to win or lose, and there is just the endless joy of giving.

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Manual for Teachers: 7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 2. 2-18-18

7. SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED? P 2
2 Whenever a teacher of God has tried to be a channel for healing he has succeeded. Should he be tempted to doubt this, he should not repeat his previous effort. That was already maximal, because the Holy Spirit so accepted it and so used it. Now the teacher of God has only one course to follow. He must use his reason to tell himself that he has given the problem to One Who cannot fail, and must recognize that his own uncertainty is not love but fear, and therefore hate. His position has thus become untenable, for he is offering hate to one to whom he offered love. This is impossible. Having offered love, only love can be received.

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Whenever a teacher of God has tried to be a channel for healing he has succeeded.

This is not a hope or a possibility; this is a fact. When I pray for someone’s healing, I have succeeded. It is done and does not need my continued effort. The Holy Spirit accepted my prayer for healing and so has already used it. Jesus doesn’t say that I don’t need to keep trying; he says that I should not repeat my effort. There must be a reason he would phrase it like this, and there is.

When I feel like I need to keep trying it is because to do so would indicate a lack of faith, my uncertainty would not be love but fear. When I pray for someone’s healing, that is an act of love. When I doubt the healing, that is an act of fear. Then Jesus is very blunt as he says that fear is hate. Yikes! I never want to do that. I offered love and so it impossible that I now offer hate where love has been received.

In the past, I have made this mistake. I would pray for someone and then I would watch for proof that the person was healed. If I did not see signs of healing, I would pray again. I have since learned that the illusion is not a reliable source of information. Sometimes the effects of the healing show up in a way that I can see it, but not always. I have learned to trust the Holy Spirit to complete His function and so now I trust that healing has occurred.

I will use myself as an example. I have asked for healing of certain beliefs that are the root cause of both emotional distress and physical illness. I know that this has been done because I asked. Some of these beliefs are clearly undone in my mind. Some still show up in their effects, but they are undone as well. The physical manifestation is waiting for my acceptance, and that will occur, as I am willing to release the guilt that prevents me from accepting it.

I am part of a prayer ministry through Pathways of Light, and when I accept a prayer request, I agree to pray for the person for 30 days. The way this works for me is that I pray for their healing and then after that when I look at my prayer list, I express my gratitude for their healing. I might think of something else to do, such as to pray that they will feel God’s gentle touch on their hearts and so be comforted, but I do not repeat the original healing as that is done.

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