VI. The Holy Instant and the Laws of God, P 7
7 It is through us that peace will come. Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate. If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand Selfhood. And therein is love’s meaning understood. But remember that understanding is of the mind, and only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. If you were not an idea, and nothing but an idea, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, you will not remember the language of communication, which you know perfectly.
Journal
We think we are communicating when we talk to each other, but Jesus is explaining to us that this is not communication. Communication is of the mind; it is ideas in the mind, shared within the mind. This is hard to grasp while we are confused about our very nature. While I think I am a body, I can only use words to try to communicate and that is not very effective.
Words have different meanings to different people and even to oneself at different times and under different circumstances. They differ according to culture as well. We use words to convey what we think of as truth but we also use them to convey what we want others to believe rather than what is actually true. Words are very unreliable.
Eventually, everyone begins to accept that they are not just a body. They begin to see themselves as body and spirit, or maybe body, mind, and spirit. This is a step forward but is not the truth, so communication remains imperfect. There are still misunderstandings and the sense of union that comes from true sharing is fleeting and easily disrupted through miscommunication.
What we are is an idea in the Mind of God. At first, I didn’t understand this at all. I was too immersed in the idea of form. I felt like I was the image I had made of myself rather than the maker of the image. How could a body be an idea? The body seemed so substantial, so real. And yet, I am beginning to understand that form is the illusion and ideas are the substantial reality.
With this understanding, I am able to more often choose peace, whereas before, I didn’t know peace was a choice. I thought I was peaceful when the images I made were peaceful. I thought I taught peace when I talked about peace or spoke in a peaceful manner. Now I see differently. If I notice that I am not at peace I remember what I am, and in making that choice I become aware of peace. My awareness of peace is communicated and ripples throughout the mind where it is shared with all. This is communication.
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