II. The Way to Remember God, P 2
2 The light in them shines as brightly regardless of the density of the fog that obscures it. If you give no power to the fog to obscure the light, it has none. For it has power only if the Son of God gives power to it. He must himself withdraw that power, remembering that all power is of God. You can remember this for all the Sonship. Do not allow your brother not to remember, for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. This is what you have forgotten. To perceive the healing of your brother as the healing of yourself is thus the way to remember God. For you forgot your brothers with Him, and God’s Answer to your forgetting is but the way to remember.
Journal
We have obscured the light in our mind with our ego beliefs, but we have done nothing to the light itself. It shines as brightly as ever. The fog that covers the light is of our own making and we can dispel it simply by changing our minds. The fog has no power other than the power we give it through our desire for it to be there.
As we are trying to wake up now, it seems strange that we would be deliberately obscuring the light, but this is what is happening. The reason it is happening is that the mind is still split. There is still a part of the mind that wants its own special separate self to continue as if it exists, and it wants its own thoughts and it wants to decide for itself the meaning of existence. This part of the mind stands in opposition to awakening and clouds the truth to maintain the illusion.
But this separate part of the mind is not an opponent, but simply a choice within the one mind. We made a choice to have an experience and that choice plays out over and over in many different ways until we decide to make a different choice. So we are not at war with something outside our mind, nor at war with ourselves. We are simply viewing options and deciding what it is we most deeply desire.
The confusion occurs as we forget who we are. We become identified with the ego mind and think that to cede power to the God Mind is to lose. In truth there is no ego mind. It is an illusion. We are part of the God Mind and to surrender to that choice is to gain everything we gave up to have this crazy little experience.
We gave the fog power to obscure our reality and now we must withdraw that power. We are doing that now, and we continue the process each time we choose to turn from ego thinking to God Knowing. Separation is the theme of the illusion and so as we join we undo the illusion. In other words, we undo separation through joining.
I know the truth for my brother and this teaches me the truth about myself. See how perfect the plan is for our return to God? We chose the idea of separation as our illusion, now we choose the idea of unity to return to reality. My brother thinks he is sick, and I shine the light of truth into his mind to heal him.
The very idea of this awakens the memory of unity in my mind. As Jesus says: “for his forgetfulness is yours. But your remembering is his, for God cannot be remembered alone. This is what you have forgotten.” And remembering I am healed with my brother and he is healed with me is the way to remember God. Did I ever think that my brother’s awakening had nothing to do with me?
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