IV. The Function of Time P 1
1 And now the reason why you are afraid of this course should be apparent. For this is a course on love, because it is about you. You have been told that your function in this world is healing, and your function in Heaven is creating. The ego teaches that your function on earth is destruction, and you have no function at all in Heaven. It would thus destroy you here and bury you here, leaving you no inheritance except the dust out of which it thinks you were made. As long as it is reasonably satisfied with you, as its reasoning goes, it offers you oblivion. When it becomes overtly savage, it offers you hell.
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It is like when we decided on the tiny mad idea, we made an agreement that we would not see the truth anymore. We would not, in any way, acknowledge the love that we are. We would live in a world that was in opposition truth. To do this we needed a to section off part of the mind and use that part to sleep and to dream. This part of the mind made an ego, a voice that would keep us in the dream, that would direct the dream for us. Its job is to keep the truth at bay so as to extend the dream.
The ego is a way to have this experience and it follows the directives we gave it. It has no power of its own, only what we allow it. To have the dream we had to “forget” the truth and in the course of exploring duality, we have become thoroughly lost in it. But God gave us a failsafe, a way out of the dream when we were done with it. This Voice is the voice of truth and is our Guide and our Helper.
We have taken advantage of this because we are ready to awaken. In fact, it has already been done through our brother, Jesus. Now we are simply accepting the awakening as we are ready to do so. This book, A Course in Miracles, is one of the tools provided by Jesus to help us make that decision. It is a powerful tool. It is about love, which we have forsaken in order to experience duality. But we cannot lose it because it is what we are.
So this book is for us because it is about us. That is why it helps us wake up. It is like an amnesiac looking at photo albums and reading about his life until a memory sparks. This book helps us to see why we don’t want to stay in the dream. Then it helps us to remember that we don’t have to, that we are glorious Beings and that we have a Home.
We are afraid of this course and of waking up only because we are still listening to the ego, which is following its orders to keep the dream going. But we were never meant to stay in the dream forever. We have played the game well, and now it is time to leave it behind and to go home. It is time to turn away from the ego and toward the Voice for God so that It can lead us out of our dream and into Love. It is time to break the agreement, wake up and to wake up our fellow dreamers.
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