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.
Journal
“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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