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Study of Text, C 15: IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P 1. 6-4-18

IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P 1
1 As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them, so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands. Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready now, but you are not.

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The ego mind sees only with the eyes and so it sees only bodies. Our holy mind will show us what is really there, something that we can see only with the mind, not with the eyes. The Holy Spirit will release our vision and then we will see the Great Rays (the extension of the Light of God) shining from everyone. Jesus says these rays reach to God.

The Great Rays are there now, we just are not aware of them because we are intent on arresting our sight at the body. How do we get this shift of vision? It is accomplished in the holy instant, that instant in which we have chosen forgiveness instead of guilt. This shift in vision will be made permanent, as we are willing to make it the only perception we would have.

So this would mean that we would have no grievances, no attack thoughts. We would then be in the Holy Instant and in that instant God will do His part and translate perception into knowledge. What a thing that will be! The Holy Instant will be the only instant and we will know ourselves as One and as Love. We will know ourselves as part of All That Is and know ourselves as everywhere at once. What bliss that will be! I am excited to read on to see what is necessary to experience this shift so that I will be ready for it.

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Manual for Teachers: 12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 1. 5-31-18

12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 1
1 The answer to this question is-one. One wholly perfect teacher, whose learning is complete, suffices. This one, sanctified and redeemed, becomes the Self Who is the Son of God. He who was always wholly spirit now no longer sees himself as a body, or even as in a body. Therefore he is limitless. And being limitless, his thoughts are joined with God’s forever and ever. His perception of himself is based upon God’s judgment, not his own. Thus does he share God’s Will, and bring His Thoughts to still deluded minds. He is forever one, because he is as God created him. He has accepted Christ; and he is saved.

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“He who was always wholly spirit now no longer sees himself as a body, or even as in a body.”

I am becoming more adamant with myself as to what I am. I remind myself often that I am not this body, and that I am not even in this body temporarily. This body is an illusion that exists only in the mind. I have used words to refer to my self, words like spirit, pure consciousness, awareness, and the Course says that we are the Son of God and sometimes it says, we are Christ Consciousness or the Mind of Christ. None of these words evoke a sense of knowing in me.

What the Course is very clear about is that I am not a body, and of course, the body is the only idea that seems real to me. I have thought of myself as a body for eons, evidently. But believing something for a long time does not make it true, it simply reinforces a false idea to the point that it becomes a hardened belief. And as Jesus says, what we believe is true for us.

Another thing Jesus tells us is that if we believe we are a body we will suffer when the body suffers. I am especially aware of this right now because this body is sick and so I feel sick, not because I must, but because I am identified with the body. But as always now, I notice this phenomenon and realize it is a form of insanity, and as such, I deny it can be true. It is saner to deny what is not real than to simply accept it, and since it is not real, I can eventually learn to perceive it as not real. Then my experience will be of what is real and will know myself as unlimited, as I truly am.

“His perception of himself is based upon God’s judgment, not his own.”

What I have learned and what I am learning to master is that I cannot judge myself or anyone else. I choose to stop giving any credence to the ego’s incessant judging. How do I know that I am judging? If I am not perfectly peaceful, I have asked the ego for its interpretation. This is not hard to discern, nor is it hard to turn around. I asked the ego to begin with and so with a simple change of mind, I disregard the ego and now ask the Holy Spirit for a different interpretation. The Holy Spirit will teach me God’s judgment, which I will share with everyone else. We will remember our oneness. We will be saved.

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Manual for Teachers: 11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? P 4. 5-28-18

11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? P 4
4 Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! It is not the world that makes peace seem impossible. It is the world you see that is impossible. Yet has God’s Judgment on this distorted world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. And peace descends on it in joyous answer. Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. What else but a Thought of God turns hell to Heaven merely by being what it is? The earth bows down before its gracious Presence, and it leans down in answer, to raise it up again. Now is the question different. It is no longer, “Can peace be possible in this world?” but instead, “Is it not impossible that peace be absent here?”

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Is peace possible in the world? It depends on what we choose to see as the world. The world that we see with the body’s eyes is a world of war and cannot be anything else. But in T 5:V, Jesus says: “You keep an ancient memory before your eyes. And he who lives in memories alone is unaware of where he is.” What we see with our eyes is just an ancient memory and it is a memory of hell. We are no longer there, we are in Heaven now, but we don’t know we are because we keep the memory of hell alive in our mind.

We can stop believing what our eyes show us and instead ask the Holy Spirit to show us what is really there. Jesus said that God redeemed the world and that it is now peaceful. It has been turned from hell into Heaven by the presence of a Thought of God. Are we not Thoughts of God? Just by being what we are, we transform the world. And yet, we choose to deny our true Self and to dwell in hell a little longer. This can and will change, why not now?

The only thing that keeps this world before our eyes is our desire for it to exist. There must be something of this world that we value or we would have already turned from it as others have done. Let those ideas rise up in your mind so that you and the Holy Spirit can look at them together and see that they have no value after all. As you let them go, the real world, the world that is actually here now, will be revealed.

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Study of Text, C 15: VIII. The Only Real Relationship, P 5. 5-25-18

VIII. The Only Real Relationship, P 5
5 The Holy Spirit is God’s attempt to free you of what He does not understand. And because of the Source of the attempt, it will succeed. The Holy Spirit asks you to respond as God does, for He would teach you what you do not understand. God would respond to every need, whatever form it takes. And so He keeps this channel open to receive His communication to you, and yours to Him. God does not understand your problem in communication, for He does not share it with you. It is only you who believe that it is understandable. The Holy Spirit knows that it is not understandable, and yet He understands it because you made it.

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God does not understand our problem with communication but He understands that we think we have a problem and so He supplies the Answer to that problem. The Holy Spirit can correct this for us because while He knows it is not understandable He understands it because we made it. That is what the Holy Spirit is for and we make use of the Answer when we call on Him to correct our thinking.

Jesus says that the Holy Spirit asks you to respond as God does, for He would teach you what you do not understand. My first thought was that I don’t know how God responds so how can I do that. Then the next sentence answered my question. Jesus says that God would respond to every need, whatever form it takes. I think that I am being told to be as open and responsive as God is.

Let me repeat that. God responds to my every need, whatever form it takes. What a wonderfully loving and reassuring sentence that is! I believe this is true and yet, sometimes I fail to receive His response. This is part of my communication problem. I ask for a need to be filled and then I fail to accept the answer and so even though God keeps the communication channel open between us, I cannot take advantage of that channel because I block it on my end.

The real question is why on earth would I ever do this? Why would I ask and then refuse to accept? Part of the problem, I think, is that I have chosen to experience myself as separate from God and this separation is so strongly reinforced in my mind that I no longer even realize how I communicate with my Father.

Sometimes I ask in words for what it is that I think I need. But mostly, it is my heart crying out for help and I may not even be aware on a conscious level that it is happening. My heart, the center of my being, knows what is needed, but my conscious (mostly ego) mind thinks it knows what is needed but is often completely wrong. No wonder I have a problem with communication.

If I ask for help but have already decided what the answer should be, I will not recognize I have been answered with that which is in my best interests. I am learning to ask for help with my heart and to let go of all expectations so that the answer, when received, will be recognized and appreciated, and thus accepted. My prayers now are more like this: “Here is my problem as I see it. Thank you for your answer.” Now, I am much closer to keeping the channel open to receive His communication to me, and mine to Him.

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Manual for Teachers: 11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? P 3. 5-23-18

11. HOW IS PEACE POSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD? P 3
3 The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the Answer to all problems you have made. These problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical situation,—one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible,—God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. How is peace possible in this world? In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. But in the Judgment of God what is reflected here is only peace.

Journal
Jesus gives the Holy Spirit different names in the Course depending on His particular function in a situation. Just as He is the Voice for God He is also the Answer and is God’s Judgment.  He is the Answer because through the power of our belief we have made problems that need an answer, and because we believe in what we make, we cannot answer our own problems. This conundrum is something Jesus speaks of more than once. We cannot heal ourselves, for that we need the Holy Spirit Who is God’s Answer to our self-made problems.

I had one of those problems recently that triggered feelings of unworthiness. I know this is the ego mind that is judging the situation. What happens is that a particular thing occurred that reminded me of something from the past, and without giving it thought, I automatically ask the ego what this means. The ego reminded me of my unworthiness, and as I accepted the ego’s judgment, I began to feel bad about myself. I then projected this feeling onto the one that triggered me because I had asked the ego what to do about this feeling and projection is the ego’s advice.

When this happened, I knew that I had been listening to the ego and I knew that I must stop listening to the ego’s judgment and turn my attention to the Holy Spirit. Even knowing this, I wrangled with it for hours, going back and forth between asking the ego for help and then asking the Holy Spirit instead. It is such an odd place to be, sitting there on the fence, leaning first one way and then the other, knowing this isn’t helping and yet somehow compelled to do it. It can sometimes take a little while for me to come down on one the Holy Spirits side because I made this problem and so believe in it.

I was on Lesson 142. This lesson begins with the reminder that my mind holds only what I think with God, and when I finally decided for the Holy Spirit, reminding me of this lesson is how he helped me to accept His judgment. I was walking on a track for my daily exercise listening to a book to keep me distracted because walking is something of a chore for me. Suddenly, I felt Holy Spirit telling me to stop the story and contemplate on the lesson.
I did as was asked and let my mind rest on the idea that my mind holds only what I think with God. It seemed an absurd statement considering what a messy place my mind was on this day. I asked the Holy Spirit how this could be.

Holy Spirit: This is merely a fact. When it seems to not be true, you may rest assured that you are dreaming of other things. You are dreaming that you can change the nature of God. You are dreaming that you are a human being rather than a Divine Being. But dreams do not change reality. Your mind holds only what you think with God.

Wake up, my sweet sister. Let me show you your real thoughts. You have been searching in dreams for these thoughts and that is not where they will be found. Even as you remember what you have read in the Course and recite these very true words to yourself, you do this alone within the ego mind made to give you the illusion of aloneness. There is no power in decisions made alone.

Now you are changing your mind in union with Me and that is power indeed, power that will move mountains. This seeming problem you have made within your dreaming is the mountain we are interested in today. Give me your wholehearted desire for the solution and I will be your Solution.

Me: Holy Spirit, I give you this problem, this belief that God could have ever created a Being that was unworthy, the belief that any Being could make of itself something that God did not create. I am ready to remember my true Self, to know myself as the magnificent creation I am.

Oh my gosh, Holy Spirit, I can feel the ego mind rushing in to save me from God.

Holy Spirit: Do not be afraid of the ego mind that continues to chatter away and makes futile efforts to keep you involved in this story. It is nothing, a collection of beliefs from which I will relieve you. It has no power to contain your glory unless this is your desire.

Me: I give You my ego; it knows not what it does.

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