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Gentle Healing Lesson 174, Text, Manual for Teachers. 11-11-19

LESSON 174
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

1 (157) Into His Presence would I enter now.

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

“But the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.”

Today, I have experienced a touch of Heaven, perhaps not exactly as described in Lesson 157, but definitely a touch of it. My ego mind doesn’t find it to be perfect. I have resisted every effort the ego has made to pull me into one of its stories. Oh, yes, the ego has really tried, but I am more interested in peace today.

This morning during meditation, I asked for help in experiencing a deeper level of meditation and to more often feel the quiet joy of knowing who I am.  Before I read these lessons, I was asking for what is offered here. I was asking the Giver of happy dreams of life to work miracles in my mind.

What I feel is quiet joy. I am not exhilarated or excited, but just quietly joyful. I haven’t done anything differently, and I don’t know anything today that I didn’t know yesterday. But each group I was part of, each person I spoke to seemed precious to me and I felt joyful being a part of it.

Each time an untrue thought came into my mind, I gently released it without effort and with no concern it was there. I knew the Translator of perception was on the job and I didn’t need to concern myself other than to see the need for translation. I just let myself be carried.

“What has been given you? The knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. Nor have you left your Source, remaining as you were created. This was given you as knowledge which you cannot lose. It was given as well to every living thing, for by that knowledge only does it live.”

Today, this passage from 158 was self-evident to me and therefore nothing that happened was important because it was just an illusion. This is what is true and cannot be changed or altered. My only purpose here is to stop believing anything else.

Manual for Teachers

3. WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF TEACHING?
1 The teachers of God have no set teaching level. Each teaching-learning situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the ultimate goal is always the same; to make of the relationship a holy relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless. There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is no one whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.

Every sentence in this paragraph tells me something I am happy to know. Relationships have different forms but all have the same goal. Through the teaching-learning process they have the potential to become holy relationships in which they look on each other and see only innocence. While this can happen with any two, there are very specific contacts for all of us and they will show up in our lives.

I have had relationships that have been very challenging and some of them took most of my life to resolve. I fully accept that there are no accidents in salvation. Every one of these relationships was important to my awakening. Even though some of them were quite painful for a time, I am grateful for the healing that came through them.

I know that I certainly didn’t approach them from the point of view that they had the potential for a holy relationship, yet I know now that they did. I will say that the relationships in my life have been healed of any anger or guilt. I think back on some of them and I see that all contention was just a thought in my mind and had nothing to do with the other person. So, as my thoughts were healed, the relationships were healed.

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This is from one of the Pathways of Light courses that I did. I thought it might be helpful to post it here. We were asked to write on the key thoughts we wish to reinforce to heal our mind and to share with our mind healing partner. Review T-7.VI.1-13

1. “It is impossible, however, to see something in part of it that you will not attribute to all of it. That is why attack is never discrete, and why it must be relinquished entirely. If it is not relinquished entirely it is not relinquished at all.”
So if I see someone as a threat, I will see threats everywhere I look and I will attack. I remember something that happened years ago. I was very upset with my husband and could do nothing about it. When my daughter did something I didn’t like, I attacked her like she had done a terrible thing. I didn’t understand at the time why I did that, and I felt very guilty for it.

I did it because attack is not discreet. The rage at my husband boiled over onto my daughter. Then I attacked myself for my behavior. As I chose to make more of my decisions with God, this kind of thing happened less and less. It never happens now. It became my goal to give up attack for all time.

Knowing that we are all one is what makes this possible. I notice that as I feel the oneness that we are, the desire to attack and defend has ended.

2. If I attack, I lose the awareness of love and since I am love, I have also lost the awareness of my self, my identity.

3. “… the ego attacks what is preserving it, which must result in extreme anxiety.”
Have you ever experienced unspecified anxiety, the feeling something was wrong but not had anything to pin the feeling on? I think this happens because of the ego attacks and what that means to us. We attack and we feel the wrongness of this and if we don’t take responsibility we will project. This just confuses the situation further and creates more anxiety. It is a terrible cycle that would go on forever were it not for the Holy Spirit in our mind.

4. “Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear.”
First, I notice that Jesus is putting fear before the ego. That is, we felt fear then we made the ego in response to that fear. So, in the tiny mad idea, we made a decision to experience separation and this decision caused us to be afraid. Then the fear in our mind caused the ego as a way of dealing with that fear, thus we came up with a thought system that allowed us to have the experience we wanted within a system that provided a means of dealing with the emotional effects through projection. We could make it someone else’s fault thinking this would hide our evil deed.
Since all thoughts produce after its kind, that fear thought continued to produce more fear thoughts which were then given form and projected as the world we seem to live in. The same power that made all of this can be used to undo it. As we notice the effects of the fear in our minds, we can learn to see it differently, to withdraw our belief in it, and to focus on the truth, which is love. Just as fear makes more fear and then manifests as fearful events, love, will make more love and will manifest as loving experiences.

5. “No one who has everything wants the ego.”
It is absolutely necessary that the ego deny your true self. If the ego accepts any part of you as love, it will be completely undone. If it accepts anyone else as pure love, it will be undone. So, it keeps everyone as enemies and hides this way of thinking from us. It does this, as far as I can see, by increasing fear and guilt and making everything seem so complex that we give up trying to understand it or change it. This is why we need the Holy Spirit and why God created the Holy Spirit. It is not fooled by the ego and can help us disentangle from it when we are ready to do so.

6. “The Holy Spirit does not want you to understand conflict; He wants you to realize that, because conflict is meaningless, it is not understandable.”
The Holy Spirit does not fight the ego or try to understand it. The Holy Spirit simply disregards it because it does not exist. Ultimately, this is my goal as well. I began by learning about the ego so I could recognize it. I was not trying to understand it or destroy it, I just wanted to know the difference between ego’s voice and the Voice for God. I then began to loosen my hold on these untrue thoughts and allow my mind to be corrected. I am still not at war with the ego, but I see that it is not me and I am practicing recognizing the tendency to identify with it so I can stop doing that. I hope that soon I will be able to disregard it completely because no part of my mind believes in it or has an interest in it. I am very close to this.

7. “If the mind cannot attack, the ego proceeds perfectly logically to the belief that you must be a body.”
The ego wants me to be the body because that is its chosen home, its chosen identity. It works diligently toward engaging my mind as its own delusional thought system, which keeps us from remembering who we are. It does this because knowledge would dispel the ego immediately. We must believe in one or the other, but not both if we are to remain at peace. This is why we must be vigilant for the truth if we want to be free.

8. “Unless you perceive His creation truly you cannot know the Creator, since God and His creation are not separate.”
It is when we accept our God and all His creations as whole and indivisible that we recognize our own identity and our power. This is why I cannot accept conflict and grievances in my mind. It is why I ask for correction the moment I notice this belief in my mind. If I believe in attack, I will think I am attacked and I will defend myself. And this very act of defense, the very thought of defense, keeps the ego in place. It leaves me feeling weak and vulnerable and makes attack seem fully justified.

9. “The attack must be blind, however, because there is nothing to attack.”
And yet, what do I attack? There is nothing to attack so we make up images that allow us to seem to attack and so seem to defend. That is what everyone and everything is to the ego. It is something to project upon and to attack, thus to seem to keep myself as innocent and everything else as guilty. It also serves the purpose of fleshing out my existence so that I can actually believe in this body as myself. This is clearly insane.

10. “Allowing insanity to enter your mind means that you have not judged sanity as wholly desirable.“
I think I need to defend myself against God and this is what I seem to be doing as I divide my allegiance by making instead of creating. I need scapegoats and I need to pretend none of this happened and the world I see is the only world there is. But in my mind is the truth and I cannot altogether ignore it and so I am not happy no matter what I do. I am not sane either while I claim two diametrically opposed thought systems and try to operate from both at the same time. This is almost completely gone now.

11. “In this depressing state the Holy Spirit reminds you gently that you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God, and are therefore depriving yourself of joy. “
Thank, God, we are not left in this state. We but do this to ourselves and we have been given the means to undo it. We begin by deciding to remember that we are one with our brothers in spite of appearances and that we love our brothers as we must if we are one. Then we accept that we are one with God and that this oneness does not in any way diminish us. It is actually easy to shift into this way of thinking because it is the simple truth.

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