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C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 9. 11-14-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 9

9 As miracles in this world join you to your brothers, so do your creations establish your fatherhood in Heaven. You are the witnesses to the Fatherhood of God, and He has given you the power to create the witnesses to yours, which is as His. Deny a brother here, and you deny the witnesses to your fatherhood in Heaven. The miracle that God created is perfect, as are the miracles that you established in His Name. They need no healing, nor do you, when you accept them.

Journal
I understand that miracles in the world join me to my brothers. I think of this as happening on two levels. I forgive in my mind and from that pure place of love I project love. In the world this appears as a miracle in form. Maybe the person who I didn’t like and who didn’t like me suddenly becomes friendly and kind. Maybe the sickness I believed in until I forgave the idea, in the world disappears. However the miracle appears, it creates a sense of oneness, of unity with my brothers and sisters. It may appear as form in the world, or maybe not, but the joining has occurred.

What I don’t really get is the part about my creations. I do understand that we as the Son of God are witness to His Fatherhood. That makes sense. I have children in this world and they are witnesses to my motherhood. They prove I am a mother. So we prove that God is Father. Then I get to the part that confuses me. God gave me the power to create my own witnesses. He does not mean that I can have children in the world because that is not creation; that is making.

So what are my creations? The reason that I have trouble with this is that I cannot envision formlessness.  And because if creation is extension, then I would create more of me and I don’t have a handle on me, either. There is still too much identity with ego. Or at least while I don’t fully identify with ego anymore, I don’t have an image with which to replace it. I guess what I mean is that I don’t remember anything but form so what I am feels alien and impossible to grasp. So the idea of my creations is intriguing, but not tangible. It is something I take on faith.

Now here is where I get really confused. “Deny a brother here, and you deny the witnesses to your fatherhood in Heaven.” I think he must mean that my brothers here are all, as one, the Sonship, and if any are denied we are not whole. Our creations exist as witness to the Sonship as it exists, whole and complete, so if it is not whole and complete, it is not the Sonship that created them. Of course it was done, and we are whole, but when we deny any part of our Self, we also deny our creations. Well that is being untangled in my mind a bit. Maybe this is why I have no memory or concept of my creations. I still deny my brothers and so I have lost the awareness of my creations.

And then he says: “The miracle that God created is perfect, as are the miracles that you established in His Name. They need no healing, nor do you, when you accept them.” We are the miracle that God created and we are perfect, and our creations that we established in His Name are perfect also. We do not need healing, but only acceptance of what we are and what our brothers are. If we are ever able to accept our true identity, we must accept that our identity is whole and that means none are denied.

There are none I can push away and say that one is not me. I test my resistance as I open my arms and invite in different people, the pedophile, the racist, the murderer, the cruel and the hateful. Do I feel any resistance? How about making it personal? The coworker who seems intent on making my job hard, Trump who seems to be so different from me? Can I accept them both as me, part of the Sonship that I am?

When I accept all my brothers, I accept my creations and I accept our Creator. There is in my mind, a memory of my creations and a memory of God. I long for that memory to be in my awareness, so I am willing to allow the healing that will bring me to that memory, at least as much as is possible here, and completely when I am with my Father again. I do this as I forgive all thoughts that separate me from my brothers.

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Study of Text, C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 8. 11-10-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 8

8 When you have seen your brothers as yourself you will be released to knowledge, having learned to free yourself through Him Who knows of freedom. Unite with me under the holy banner of His teaching, and as we grow in strength the power of God’s Son will move in us, and we will leave no one untouched and no one left alone. And suddenly time will be over, and we will all unite in the eternity of God the Father. The holy light you saw outside yourself, in every miracle you offered to your brothers, will be returned to you. And knowing that the light is in you, your creations will be there with you, as you are in your Father.

Journal
It has been a long time now since I did something that affected a brother and did not consider that what affects one, affects all. I cannot do or say something unkind, even think something unkind without affecting myself and the entire Sonship. Though I sometimes go back to thinking of this one or that one as separate, or sometimes a particular situation triggers a response that is intended to defend or attack. But that is now the exception instead of the rule, and even then there is a knowing in me that I am mistaken.

When I think of our complete unbroken union, I often think of the Borg. If you are not a Trekkie, let me explain. The Borg are a race of people in the Star Trek series. They are a collective; each individual a part of the whole. To me, the Borg represent an ego version of the idea of union. They act as one and act in accordance to the good of the whole, but they are without compassion or love or kindness. Their imperative is survival of the whole through assimilation, defense and attack.

But I think in terms of Love. What if we remembered the truth about our nature? What if we remembered we were gods, and remembered that means we are Love itself? We would then turn as one, not to defend or attack, but turn in compassion, turn in peace, turn in joy and certainty and fearlessness. I think that we are actually doing this now. Each of us, as we allow our minds to be healed, is remembering that this is what we are. We are each whole and part of a whole.

We do not assimilate others into our wholeness, but rather we live a life that invites union. As more and more choose to live as one and as the Son of God that we are, the stronger the pull toward that union, and the more impelling it becomes. Love is the force that ties us together. There is a different force, though, that drives us apart, and that is fear and guilt.

When we choose to believe in fear and guilt rather than love we are polarized. We saw that happen recently in the campaign for president. An entire nation began taking sides against each other and in their fear they attacked, friends and even family members turning on each other. Even though a decision has been made, a president elected, there is no peace because there has been no overriding decision for love.

More than ever before we are given an opportunity as spiritual beings to be the love that we are and in so doing to be the miracle workers that we are asked to be. I understand the temptation to turn toward fear, but I also know that this is an ego desire, not my true desire. I think of all that could go wrong and soon the ego mind is off and running and I am filled with regret that our fear turned us toward an idea of defense and self-centered action. I am filled with fear as to where this might lead us.

But then I remember that nothing is happening except that I am projecting my ego fears onto a future, and that is not something I want to do. All thought produces form at some level and this is not a future I want to produce. Also, God is not in the future; He is in this moment. Sometimes I have to drag my mind, kicking and screaming, back to the now, but I do it. I remember that I cannot enter God’s presence if I attack His Son. We are God’s Son and if we attack any part of that Sonship, we are attacking the Whole.

For some lightworkers, their part of this story may be to enter the political arena, or to influence that arena. If so, it must be done from compassion and love and with kindness. It must be done without placing guilt and without working from a place of fear. It must be done with constant guidance. Otherwise, the worker has turned from light and toward the darkness.

We cannot, as A Course in Miracles students, assimilate others, we can only show them the light and that light will offer an irresistible invitation. My intention and my devotion is toward that light and toward the Love in Which I was created. I invite you to join me in this powerful intention. Let us unite with Jesus under the holy banner of His teaching, and as we grow in strength the power of God’s Son will move in us, and we will leave no one untouched and no one left alone.

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President Donald Trump

I woke in the early hours and glanced at my phone. I had an alert that Donald Trump won the election. I was momentarily shocked as I truly expected Hillary to win. But now it is time to pray for him. He will need the love of all light workers as he faces the task of being the leader of this nation. We are all blessed with this opportunity to join with this brother of ours for a higher purpose. And if we feel anxiety about what might happen under his administration, this is only our fear projected into the future, and an opportunity to remember to live in the present moment. In this moment all is well and this is the only moment there is. God is in this moment.

In answer to a fearful response to the election results: I look within for what I see that supports this kind of fear based action and thinking, and I allow it to be healed. I see my brother is my brother regardless of his behavior. I pray for him through seeing him as he truly is not as he appears in time and through his ego actions. In other words, my only function is to accept the Atonement for myself and in doing so I am able to offer the miracle of healing to whoever is ready for it. I can see Trump’s ego behavior, recognize it for what it is and still see that my part in this is to trust Jesus’ plan of Atonement rather than to fall into fear, judgment and reaction.

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Study of Text, C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 7. 11-9-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 7

7 Be you content with healing, for Christ’s gift you can bestow, and your Father’s gift you cannot lose. Offer Christ’s gift to everyone and everywhere, for miracles, offered the Son of God through the Holy Spirit, attune you to reality. The Holy Spirit knows your part in the redemption, and who are seeking you and where to find them. Knowledge is far beyond your individual concern. You who are part of it and all of it need only realize that it is of the Father, not of you. Your role in the redemption leads you to it by re-establishing its oneness in your mind.

Journal
God’s gift to me is Christ’s vision and I can bestow that gift to everyone and everywhere. This is what I am to do. I accept the Atonement for myself, and then I see with Christ’s vision. In doing so I offer miracles to those who seek them. To whom do I offer the miracle? That is not my concern. The Holy Spirit knows my part and who it is I am seeking. I just follow His lead.

Ask Him very specifically:
What would You have me do?

Where would You have me go? 

What would You have me say, and to whom?

Asking this is the way we agree to our part in the Atonement. It is our commitment to be a miracle worker.

Since this is my commitment, I realize that whoever is in my life today is there for me to share this holy instant. It may not be immediately evident to me, and often isn’t. But sometimes I am looking for change in my purse to pay the clerk and when I look up, I smile at her and her face lights up for just that moment.

The love that I am has connected with the love that she is. Maybe she doesn’t understand what just happened, and I likely I don’t understand the extent of what has happened, but it happened because I did my part. In that moment I used the gift of Christ’s vision and both of our minds were lightened. What happens next is not my concern.

Sometimes it is a word or two, or a teaching. Sometimes it is just my presence at the right moment. Sometimes it is the example I set as I react with love rather than defense. I have no way to know what is helpful in the moment, or who it is that is ready for the miracle. And believe me, love in any form is the miracle, the part that matters.

3 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

I have spent a long time learning what love is, and learning to release everything that is not love. In so doing, I have allowed purification and so miracles are my right, and they are my responsibility. What I have also learned is that it is a responsibility that I carry lightly. I need only stand ready to express love and where and how will be decided by the Holy Spirit and communicated to me in some way. The only thing that blocks this is ego thoughts I have not released. So I remain vigilant for those thoughts and ready to release them.

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Study of Text, C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 6. 11-7-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 6

6 They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness. And He will offer them unto His Father as they were offered unto Him. There is one miracle, as there is one reality. And every miracle you do contains them all, as every aspect of reality you see blends quietly into the one reality of God. The only miracle that ever was is God’s most holy Son, created in the one reality that is his Father. Christ’s vision is His gift to you. His Being is His Father’s gift to Him.

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I am having trouble with this paragraph. It is hard for me to understand, and I guess the reason it is hard to understand is that Jesus is explaining something unexplainable. But I am going to look at it closely and ask for clarity. Here is what I understand.

They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness. That is us. We are aspects of a whole, all equal, all the same, all holy.

And He will offer them unto His Father as they were offered unto Him. That is, our awakening is the Holy Spirit’s function given Him by God. In fulfilling His function the Holy Spirit gives us back to God, awakened.

There is one miracle, as there is one reality. And every miracle you do contains them all, as every aspect of reality you see blends quietly into the one reality of God. We are studying A Course in Miracles. We are miracles and we are learning to give miracles, to do miracles, to perform miracles. These are all ways that Jesus refers to this aspect of our function here.

What he seems to be telling us in this paragraph is that every miracle we do contains all miracles. This reference brings to mind a hologram. Here is what I read about holograms: “…the word hologram comes from the Greek words holos, “whole,” and gramma, “message.” If a hologram is cut into pieces, each piece projects the entire image…”

Could it be that we are a whole and each aspect of us (the selves we cut into pieces) contains the whole? Jesus is telling us that miracles are like that. Each miracle, regardless of the form it takes, contains the whole, contains all miracles. Maybe that is what he is saying in the first principle of miracles: There is no order of difficulty in miracles. One is not “harder” or “bigger” than another. They are all the same. All expressions of love are maximal.

And this part of the sentence: …as every aspect of reality you see blends quietly into the one reality of God. I think this is saying that the miracle exposes an aspect of reality, some aspect of Love, and these aspects are part of God as well. God is the one reality and there is nothing else.

The only miracle that ever was is God’s most holy Son, created in the one reality that is his Father. So, the Son of God, of which we are an aspect, is the one miracle. Again I reference the hologram. An apple is photographed in a certain way that allows a holographic image to be seen. When this happens, you have the original image of an apple and you have a small image taken from the original. The small image contains everything the original contains. The Son of God is the miracle, and all the other miracles we perform are the original miracle in every way. Only form makes them appear as if they are different.

And the miracle that is the most holy Son was created in God. So there is still only God.

The Holy Spirit is the Thought of Correction and what is a Thought in the Mind of God is creation. So the Holy Spirit, like the Son, is also in God, therefore, there is still only God. His being is His Father’s gift to Him. And the Holy Spirit’s gift to us is Christ’s vision. Christ’s vision allows us to see only the truth without the errors of the ego distorting it. It is with Christ’s vision that we are able to see the beautiful brilliant light that is our brother in spite of the character he seems to be playing.

This is my present best understanding of this paragraph.

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Study of Text, C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 5. 11-4-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 5

5 This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever. Every miracle you offer to the Son of God is but the true perception of one aspect of the whole. Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until you see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same light and therefore one. Everyone seen without the past thus brings you nearer to the end of time by bringing healed and healing sight into the darkness, and enabling the world to see. For light must come into the darkened world to make Christ’s vision possible even here. Help Him to give His gift of light to all who think they wander in the darkness, and let Him gather them into His quiet sight that makes them one.

Journal
Every time I see someone as if this is the only moment of their existence, I am seeing them in reality, and I am undoing the separation. I see that one as they are now and without a past and that is a miracle. It is a miracle of true perception, and a miracle of healing brought into the world. If I see my son as if a moment ago doesn’t exist, he is pure in my mind. If I do that for you, you become pure in my mind. Now you are the same. If I have done it for me, then we are all three the same. The miracle has helped me to know that we are all aspects of the One. We are each whole and each part of the Whole.

As I do this in the world, I have accomplished forgiveness in its truest sense. I have accepted the Atonement. This is my gift to the world, this deliberate choice to use Christ vision to bring light into a darkened world. Every time I do this for anyone, I help the Holy Spirit to light this brother’s way. This is such a lofty goal, that I feel joy as I think of it. It is so easy, so simple, so necessary. Then I have some meaningless grievance against someone and I forget my lofty goal, and instead I nurse my grievance as a way to justify my judgment. It doesn’t make me happy and it doesn’t gift the world, so I don’t know why I do it.
Maybe I will remember to choose differently the next time.

I imagine us all walking around with costumes and acting out our parts on a stage. When we are through with our part, we go back stage and take off our costume, which includes walking away from the body, which is just another part of the costume. As we do so, we all stand there together, and we are all exactly the same. Without the body-costume, there is no way to tell one from another, really. We walk away from the costume and with it the play with all its dramas. Could you imagine being angry with an actor because of the part he played for a brief moment in time? Without the costume what would there be to distinguish one aspect from another aspect? Without the past performance to refer to, and without a specific person to attach to that performance, how could we hold onto any grievance, anyway?

This visualization is helping me to see everyone as the same and to let go of the past. I just imagine them walking out of the scene they just played and into another. That previous scene simply ceases to exist. There, the past is gone. Then I imagine this longest running play ending. I imagine us shucking off the bodies and expanding as light that we know as unending. Light blending into never ending light. There, we really are the same, just aspects of a whole. I don’t know what we are in reality, I guess, but this is a helpful image for me.

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Study of Text, C 13: VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 4. 11-2-16

VIII. From Perception to Knowledge, P 4

4 Apart from the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit has no function. He is not separate from Either, being in the Mind of Both, and knowing that Mind is One. He is a Thought of God, and God has given Him to you because He has no Thoughts He does not share. His message speaks of timelessness in time, and that is why Christ’s vision looks on everything with love. Yet even Christ’s vision is not His reality. The golden aspects of reality that spring to light under His loving gaze are partial glimpses of the Heaven that lies beyond them.

Journal

Ooh, I like this glimpse at the Holy Spirit. He is part of me (the Son of God) and a part of God, in the Mind of Both. And He knows that Mind is One. Here is something else that I love to read here. He is a Thought of God, and God has given Him to me because He has no Thoughts He does not share. Imagine that! God has no Thoughts He does not share with us. And I think that Thought is not the same as the thoughts we have. I think that what is a Thought in God’s Mind is a Creation.

The Holy Spirit brings some of Reality into our illusion. He says that his message speaks of timelessness in time. I was thinking about those times when I needed Him to manipulate time for me so that I could get my writing and my posting done before I absolutely had to stop and go to work, and He did! I would finish my writing and make my last posting and look at the clock to see that almost no time passed. I don’t know if this kind of thing is what Jesus means by that sentence, but it sure feels like a miracle to me. It feels like timelessness brought into time.

And he says that Christ vision works the same way. Through His vision we see love everywhere we look. I haven’t been able to do this universally and consistently, yet, but I have had glimpses and it is remarkable. It can happen right in the middle of a grievance, and simply because I want Christ vision more than I want to justify my grievance. I can be very angry or very resentful and ask for another way to see it, and everything changes. Just like that! It is a miracle when it happens.

As wonderful as it is, Jesus says Christ’s Vision is not His Reality. It is just a glimpse of the Heaven that lies just beyond that miraculous change. Can you imagine what it must be like to see only God everywhere you look? Cate says that is what she sees. I long to join her there in that place where she sees with Christ. That is why I never for a moment stop looking at the mind, letting Holy Spirit heal what I find there that is not God. I really do believe that I can learn that I want to see only with Christ vision, and that this holy vision is meant for me. I believe that all I need is to wholly desire, to desire nothing above that elevated vision, in order to have it.

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