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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 3. 4-26-16

VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 3

3 When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you. Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. The definition of reality is God’s, not yours. He created it, and He knows what it is. You who knew have forgotten, and unless He had given you a way to remember you would have condemned yourself to oblivion.

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Holy moly, if God had not given us His Voice to remind us of the truth, we would be lost forever, we would have condemned ourselves to oblivion! As it is, we have hidden the truth from ourselves and think we have undone it. It is not up to us to decide on reality because we did not create it. Evidently, we can look away from it and see something else instead, and believe we have destroyed reality and made up our own, but reality is perfectly protected from our illusions.

The way we regain Heaven is to listen to the Voice for God. The Holy Spirit sees reality clearly and since the Holy Spirit is in our mind, we can learn to see it again as well. We are not lost because it is not God’s Will that His Son be lost. He has safeguarded us and kept our Self from harm. He has also given us the way to regain our memory and to return home.

This is why it is so important that we learn to hear the Holy Spirit. Jesus says that we can learn to hear only this Voice even here. This is why I sit with Spirit every morning and ask Him for His words, and why I ask all day long for His guidance. I don’t yet hear only His Voice, but I hear it more clearly as I make the decision for His Voice over and over again. He was given to us for us to hear Him, and to see with the same clarity as He sees.

There is no one who cannot learn to hear His Voice and all it takes is desire and practice. I hear His Voice as ideas and inspiration. I hear His Voice as thoughts that are not the thoughts I would think on my own. I hear His Voice when I step back and let Him answer, through me, a call for help. Sometimes, I hear His Voice through another as they say what it is I need to hear. I hear His Voice most clearly in the words that seem to write themselves on the page, and that is why I journal. But always, His Voice is available to me if only I am open to hear it.

The fact is that I must hear a voice. The choice I have is which voice I choose to listen to. I will choose an advisor and the advisor I choose will be either Holy Spirit or ego. I decide on nothing alone, because decision requires union. I am learning to choose to be in union with the Holy Spirit every time as I realize that not only do I not want to make decisions on my own, but that I cannot.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 2. 4-25-16

VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 2

2 God’s Son is as safe as his Father, for the Son knows his Father’s protection and cannot fear. His Father’s Love holds him in perfect peace, and needing nothing, he asks for nothing. Yet he is far from you whose Self he is, for you chose to attack him and he disappeared from your sight into his Father. He did not change, but you did. For a split mind and all its works were not created by the Father, and could not live in the knowledge of Him.

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So I booted myself out of Heaven, separated myself from God and from my Self, and so lost my awareness of what I am and where I am. I see myself as a body in a world of form with lots of problems and many solutions that never actually solve anything. And to make matters more confusing, I don’t remember doing this and on top of that, I believe in what I made. There is a belief that I am not fully aware of, but that affects me, and that belief is that I did something monumentally wrong and I am guilty.

What a mess! But there is a solution that does work. There is an answer to all of this and it is in the mind that made the problem as it appears to me. The solution is in the mind right next to the perceived problem. I can choose the answer as easily as I chose the problem and I will. The question is, when will I make that choice? I can take time, and in fact I can take all the time I can stand. But all this time I suffer, and sometimes, terribly.

I feel the draw toward awakening. I am tired of suffering and the desire not to suffer is the first step toward the door that leads out of the dream state of separation. I feel the draw of Love and that is a giant step forward. I have the key in my hand. I have been throwing off the encumbrances that seem to hold me back. I do this through forgiveness. I forgive and forgive and forgive. As I begin to lighten this load of false beliefs through forgiveness, I feel more confident that I can let this tiny mad idea go and return to Reality.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 1. 4-23-16

VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love
1 Do you really believe that you can kill the Son of God? The Father has hidden His Son safely within Himself, and kept him far away from your destructive thoughts, but you know neither the Father nor the Son because of them. You attack the real world every day and every hour and minute, and yet you are surprised that you cannot see it. If you seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. For if love is sharing, how can you find it except through itself? Offer it and it will come to you, because it is drawn to itself. But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for it can live only in peace.

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How is it that I attack the real world every day, every hour, every minute? First I realize that the real world is love and love is sharing. Then I realize what is opposite to that. Attack in any form is not love and not sharing, and though attack does not destroy reality, it keeps reality from my awareness. I cannot lose God and Self, but I can be unaware of God and Self and it is as if I have lost it.

I am eternal and perfect and joy and peace. I do not have these things; I am these things. I am divine in my nature. I am one with all things, I am part of God, I am safe, I am complete. I have chosen against my true nature to the point that I have lost any memory of what I am and live as if I am something completely opposite of that, and so I suffer. But I am beginning to awaken from this dream of separation.

I began this awakening process as I learned to recognize attack and decide against it. It is odd I had to learn to recognize something so far from my true nature, but I had become so accustomed to living in fear, and so my life as I experienced it seemed natural and necessary. I felt I had to defend myself and one defends only through attack.

Here is what I discovered. When I am angry that is an attack. It is an attack on my true nature which is love. It doesn’t matter what triggered the attack thoughts and feelings. Blame, cause, and justification are completely irrelevant. Only that I am angry and anger keeps me in hell, matters.

I can choose to release anger and ask the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of the belief it has any value to me at all. I can do this in spite of circumstances. I simply desire to be free and if the desire to be free is greater than the desire to build my defenses by feeding my anger, then it is done. It requires only trust in Jesus, in God.

As Jesus tells us, we don’t have to believe what he says or even understand it. We only need to trust enough to do it. I can muster that much trust. After all, what do I have to lose? When I am free of anger, I am free of what kept me from love. Letting anger go, I become aware of love, and love naturally shares itself. It flows from me to everyone. As it does so it is reinforced in my own mind. As I give, I receive.

This is as true of guilt, whether directed inward or outward. It is as true of depression, jealousy, spite, fear, lack, and loss. These all seem different, with different causes and different effects, but they are all the same. They are the same because they are not love and are attack. They attack reality. They attack the Son. They attack the Father. And each one, as it appears in its special form, can be denied as easily. True denial is very powerful because it is a return to reality.

It requires only that we be vigilant for what is an attack on God, and that we be willing to receive healing. Our part is simple and not hard to do. It may feel hard as we resist it, but if we stay persistent we receive much support and our continued success will motivate us further. Jesus said that we can do anything he asks of us.

When my resistance is strong, I find it helpful to remind myself of this.
In the beginning, I was deeply discouraged by my level of resistance, but then I came to understand that it is not that I am lazy or that this is too much for me, but only that I did not believe I was worthy of this level of effort or this lofty goal, much less its conclusion.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VII. Looking Within, P 15. 4-22-16

VII. Looking Within, P 15
15 When you are tempted to yield to the desire for death, remember that I did not die. You will realize that this is true when you look within and see me. Would I have overcome death for myself alone? And would eternal life have been given me of the Father unless He had also given it to you? When you learn to make me manifest, you will never see death. For you will have looked upon the deathless in yourself, and you will see only the eternal as you look out upon a world that cannot die.

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Death is not real and we do not have to die. In fact, since it is not real we do not die, but we believe in it and so we have that experience. And yet, Jesus did not die. He says we will believe that when we look within and see him. Of course he doesn’t mean look within the brain, the little self, the separate self. I don’t look within Myron to find Jesus. I look within the mind to find the Christ. It is there right behind all the ego beliefs.

Right now there are still a lot of the ego beliefs in my mind and they are what manifests in my life. However, that is not all that is in my mind. Christ is in my mind, and as many of those ego thoughts have fallen away the Christ manifests, and I see a life more peaceful and happier.

So I continue the work I do as I look at my life to see what needs to be released and then ask the Holy Spirit to heal the beliefs that are the source of the remaining darkness. It is in this way that we begin to become aware of the Christ within. And as we do this, we make It manifest in the world and there will come a time when we will not manifest even an appearance of death because we will know our eternal nature.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VII. Looking Within, P 14. 4-21-16

VII. Looking Within, P 14
14 The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible. But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your Father. That is why the undoing of guilt is an essential part of the Holy Spirit’s teaching. For as long as you feel guilty you are listening to the voice of the ego, which tells you that you have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death. You will think that death comes from God and not from the ego because, by confusing yourself with the ego, you believe that you want death. And from what you want God does not save you.

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The ego thought system is built on guilt and without guilt it has no foundation on which to stand. So the lesson is always one that leads us to understand that guilt is not real and we are innocent. With that healing the mind will naturally turn to God. It is only the belief that we have somehow betrayed God that keeps us clinging to this illusion.

We believe we have been treacherous to God and therefore deserve death. God will not save us from what we want, so we must change our minds about what we want. That is our only function here. We must accept the Atonement for ourselves. All that means is that we forgive the idea that the Son of God is guilty for anything. We remember that we are innocent.

For awhile we do this one guilty thought at a time, coming to understand that it does not matter if we see ourselves as guilty or the other one as guilty. The ego thought system says that we are guilty but that we can get rid of the guilt by seeing it elsewhere. The Holy Spirit is showing us that trying to get rid of guilt is what convinces us that guilt is real and frightening.

To be healed is to know that guilt is all smoke and mirrors. It is nothing made to appear threatening. It is a prison we made to keep our brothers separate from us and to keep ourselves separate from God. All that it takes to be free from this prison is to want to be free. In our desire for freedom we receive freedom. But we must desire it for everyone. We must free all of our brothers if we want to be free.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12, VII. Looking Within, P 13. 4-11-16

VII. Looking Within, P 13
13 Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have condemned yourself to death. The death penalty is the ego’s ultimate goal, for it fully believes that you are a criminal, as deserving of death as God knows you are deserving of life. The death penalty never leaves the ego’s mind, for that is what it always reserves for you in the end. Wanting to kill you as the final expression of its feeling for you, it lets you live but to await death. It will torment you while you live, but its hatred is not satisfied until you die. For your destruction is the one end toward which it works, and the only end with which it will be satisfied.

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I always thought Jesus was exaggerating about the ego wanting to kill me. Or maybe that used to be true but isn’t anymore. At any rate, I resisted this idea and so simply ignored it. Lately, I have reconsidered. I see that it is true. Inevitably, we bring ourselves to death, and if we listen to the ego a lot, and believe what the ego says, the stress of doing this brings us to death sooner.

It becomes even clearer that the ego wants me dead as my mind continues to heal, and as I have started thinking that awakening is not only possible but inevitable. When even minor problems nag at me, I have noticed thoughts of death in my mind. It is the desperate attempt of the ego to kill me before I can awaken.

It might sound like this: “I will never get free of this problem. My only escape is death.” It is such a ridiculous and blatant attempt that even in my most confused I know what is happening, and I can only shake my head at the ego determination to claim me. The first time this happened, I finally understood what Jesus means when he says that the ego wants me dead, and I understand why. Awakening is the end of the ego’s ever weakening control. If it brings me to death before I can awaken, the dream continues and that is the ego’s purpose, and the ego is very single minded about its purpose.

I also understand more clearly that the ego mind does believe in my guilt, and does believe I deserve the death penalty for my sins. If I identify with ego, I believe this about myself. That is why I must continue my vigilance for mind watching. I notice thoughts that are not the thoughts I think with God and I know they are not true thoughts so I want them gone.

Once I have asked for healing I focus my mind on the true thoughts. I think about my reality as God’s Son. I think about my holiness and my oneness. I remind myself that the peace of God is my only goal. It is my one purpose. I allow the real thoughts about myself to rise up in my mind and fill me with truth until there is no room for ego ideas.

I go through this process as often as needed. I don’t need it as often as I used to and it is easier each time because I have learned to recognize the ego as the false idol it is, and I know I want to reject it. I am becoming as single minded as the ego. Remembering that I have one goal, one purpose is helping me to let go of the dream I am separated from my brother and from my Creator.

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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VII. Looking Within, P 12. 4-13-16

VII. Looking Within, P 12

12 When you look within and see me, it will be because you have decided to manifest truth. And as you manifest it you will see it both without and within. You will see it without because you saw it first within. Everything you behold without is a judgment of what you beheld within. If it is your judgment it will be wrong, for judgment is not your function. If it is the judgment of the Holy Spirit it will be right, for judgment is His function. You share His function only by judging as He does, reserving no judgment at all for yourself. You will judge against yourself, but He will judge for you.

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It is hard to believe that I can look within and find such perfection and beauty that when I look out I will find it there as well. It is hard to believe that perfection is in me, and it is hard to believe I could find it in the world I see. I believe it is true, though, no matter how hard it is to imagine. The reason I believe it is true is that Jesus says it is.

I am encouraged in this belief by knowing people who have awakened to this truth. They seem to experience love and joy no matter what is going on in the world. This tells me that what I see in the world is not reality, but a judgment given form. This is why it is so important that we accept we cannot judge, and simply allow judgment to be accomplished for us.

When I look without and see something less than peace and joy and innocence, I know that this is what I have looked within and judged to be there. It becomes even more real to me when I look without and see it reflected there. But no matter how real it seems, it is still not true. It is just a judgment made by the ego mind which cannot judge because it is not its function to do so.

This is why I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my thinking, and heal my mind. It is why I ask for the Atonement for my thoughts. This is the same thing as setting aside my own judgment and asking for His. I want to undo these judgments and allow Him to replace them with true judgment. I always seem to judge against myself, and He always judges me innocent and as God created me.

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