VI. The Vision of Christ, P 6
6 Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ’s is in God. Christ’s Love for you is His Love for His Father, which He knows because He knows His Father’s Love for Him. When the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ at the altar to His Father, perception fuses into knowledge because perception has become so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely its natural extension. Love transfers to love without any interference, for the two are one. As you perceive more and more common elements in all situations, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases and becomes generalized. Gradually you learn to apply it to everyone and everything, for its applicability is universal. When this has been accomplished, perception and knowledge have become so similar that they share the unification of the laws of God.
Journal
Jesus says that as I perceive more and more common elements in all situations,, the transfer of training under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases and becomes more generalized. This is when I start to apply it to everyone and everything. This has already happened for me, though I still resist it for awhile sometimes.
The way I see this generalization on my part is that all things I see with my eyes are really just symbols of what is going on in my mind. All errors I see in my brother are errors I see in my own mind and then project onto my brother. All fearful situations in my life are manifestations of the fear in my mind. I know this is true all the time and in all situations.
The reason perception and knowledge are not closer to becoming one in my mind is that I still resist. It is a kind of passive resistance as I pretend I don’t understand why and how this is all happening “to” me. Once I see what I am doing it never fails to make me laugh. “Fell for it again, ego, but now that I see it, I will not so readily succumb to the old ego story again next time.” And this is how the transfer of training increases and becomes more generalized.
Here is an example. I learn through the Course that my anger is really fear. As I become open to knowing this, more ready to be taught, the Holy Spirit shows me how this works. I see that I was angry with my boss, and I asked Holy Spirit how this was fear.
It sure seemed like he was being a jerk and I had every justification for my anger. Then as I opened my mind I saw the fear in my boss and understood why he was being a jerk. Then I saw the fear in my mind as I saw my feelings of helplessness in the face of his behavior. So it’s true, anger in this case, or rather in both of our cases, was just fear.
Then another time, I was angry with my ex-husband. More than ever I saw his actions and words as being the cause of my anger. I felt completely justified in seeing him guilty of making me angry. But I had been shown something different before, and so I was willing to be shown again.
When I asked what Holy Spirit saw when He looked at this situation, I understood that it was confusion. We were both lost in the darkness of our own thoughts and didn’t know how to get out. We were children who had wandered off to play and stayed out too late. Now it was night and we couldn’t find our way home. We blamed each other for this predicament, because we were afraid and didn’t know what to do.
Each time in my life when I have brought my anger to the Holy Spirit and asked for a different interpretation, He has shown me the fear. Eventually, looking for the fear became second nature, and now I do it all the time. It is so much easier to forgive frightened children than to face down angry enemies. It was easy to forgive my ex-husband when I realized he was just acting out of his fear. I know how that feels.
I do this with all of the Holy Spirit’s lessons. I practice what He would have me do until I begin to see His lesson in every circumstance. I practice the solution until the solution becomes obvious and I practice the solution until it becomes something I want more than the problem. I learn to trust even in those circumstances that seem obscure, because I now believe in the solution and I believe it always works. I have achieved transfer of learning.
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