III. From Darkness to Light P 7
7 Only God’s Comforter can comfort you. In the quiet of His temple, He waits to give you the peace that is yours. Give His peace, that you may enter the temple and find it waiting for you. But be holy in the Presence of God, or you will not know that you are there. For what is unlike God cannot enter His Mind, because it was not His Thought and therefore does not belong to Him. And your mind must be as pure as His, if you would know what belongs to you. Guard carefully His temple, for He Himself dwells there and abides in peace. You cannot enter God’s Presence with the dark companions beside you, but you also cannot enter alone. All your brothers must enter with you, for until you have accepted them you cannot enter. For you cannot understand wholeness unless you are whole, and no part of the Son can be excluded if he would know the Wholeness of his Father.
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Jesus is telling us that we are in God’s temple right now but we will not be aware of this until we have allowed our minds to be healed of all the false ego thinking. We must leave behind our dark companions, because we cannot enter into His presence (know that we are in Him) with them beside us, just as he tells us in another part of the Text, we cannot enter into His presence if we attack His Son. In fact, in this paragraph Jesus elaborates on this when he tells us we cannot enter into His presence without our brothers. All of them.
When I was judging my coworker last week, I was not at peace. I had to bring this judgment to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to correct my thinking before I could accept the gift of peace. I was not being denied peace as some kind of punishment for disobedience. I simply could not know I was given the gift of peace while I was in judgment.
It is really a simple concept for me to understand. God is wholeness. He is oneness. There is no thought of separation in the Mind of God. That is the nature of God. I cannot bring a foreign thought into God or it would change His nature, and then He would not be God anymore. Judgment is a foreign concept as is separation. So while I think that my sister is not me and while I think either of us is anything other than a perfect creation of God, I cannot enter into His presence. I must leave those dark thoughts behind if I would know myself as part of the Light.
Today, I dedicate myself to bringing peace to each one I meet. Holy Spirit, I ask that You purify my thoughts today, that I can be free of the dark thoughts I have allowed into my mind in the past. I cannot bring peace unless I am at peace. Help me to see my brother as my self. Vision is mine and I want to learn to use it more consistently. I am ready to awaken from this dream that I am separate from Love, and so I am ready to relinquish all thoughts that are not Love.
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