Chapter 10: THE IDOLS OF SICKNESS
I. At Home in God
1 You do not know your creations simply because you would decide against them as long as your mind is split, and to attack what you have created is impossible. But remember that it is as impossible for God. The law of creation is that you love your creations as yourself, because they are part of you. Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe, because the laws of God protect it by His Love. Any part of your mind that does not know this has banished itself from knowledge, because it has not met its conditions. Who could have done this but you? Recognize this gladly, for in this recognition lies the realization that your banishment is not of God, and therefore does not exist.
My ACIM group and I were discussing our creations, and as most of us do, wondering about them. In one section of the Course they are referred to as our Extensions. So we decided that since God is Love and He created us through extending Himself, we are Love and we created through extending ourselves. Our creations must be Love also.
To be honest, it is hard to relate to this because I don’t know what I am, really. I can say I am Love, but what does that mean? I have read in the Course that my creations love me and I love them, and this touches something in me and feels true. It makes me want to remember them and return to them. But as long as I am attached to the illusion I made, which is the opposite of Reality in every way, I cannot know my creations because I would reject them as I do all of Reality.
To reject is to attack and Jesus says that it is impossible to attack what I created. This is why I cannot know my creations now. My creations are perfectly safe because they are part of me and it is not possible for creation to be harmed. Just as I cannot harm my creations, God cannot harm me. This alone, if I could completely accept it, would undo guilt in my mind, and undo the fear of God, which keeps us bound to this illusory state.
It is important for me to know that I but do this to myself. I choose what I believe, and I have chosen a belief that I am banished from God. The reason it is important to know that I did this to myself, is that as long as I think God banished me I will be reluctant to accept that He loves me. I will remain afraid that I did something unforgivable and the idea of returning to God will be a fearful thought in my mind. The truth is, God could not have banished us, and therefore we are not banished. We only dream of banishment. It is time to wake up.
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