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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VI. The Vision of Christ, P 3. 3-10-16

VI. The Vision of Christ, P 3
3 You do not want the world. The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. This gives it the only reality it will ever have. Its value is not in itself, but yours is in you. As self-value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. Make the world real unto yourself, for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so it belongs to you.

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Jesus is making a clear distinction between the world as we typically see it, and the real world, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When I see someone as an enemy, my competition at work or the woman who rushed to grab the parking space I was clearly moving toward, I see the world I made. If I am angry at something done to me or to anyone else; if I am afraid of something happening in the world, terrorists or thieves, then I am looking at the world I made with the ego.

As I begin to ask the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of these ego thoughts, I extend love instead of hate and fear, and I start to see the real world. That is how it is a gift of the Holy Spirit, it is as He heals my mind that I see the world differently.  What I see of the ego world is not real and not there. It is a picture of my beliefs, but not of reality.

Is the real world, real? Does it exist outside my mind? I think I understand that the only value the world has, and its only reality is the love in which I look upon it. It is the love that I extend that has value and that is real.  Before I know reality, I will know the real world. It is like a step I take, a stop I make, on the way home.

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