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Study of Manual for Teachers 8-1-12

8-1-12
2 The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their own illusions.

Jesus was a man, just like us. He lived in the world and experienced the illusion just as we do, with all the apparent issues and challenges we have. While he was doing this he became aware that the world is an illusion. He remembered that his brothers are not what they appear and he saw in them the Christ they truly are. In seeing the Christ in them, he remembered God.

As we live in the world and experience all of the challenges of doing so, we too, can make that final shift. We can remember the truth, recognize the innocence that we all are and see the face of Christ in our brothers, and see the face of Christ in the mirror. This is how we remember God. All that we have to do is accept that what we see now is not true. The truth will then reveal itself to us as it did to Jesus.

Christ used the form of Jesus to show us all that it could be done and to show us how to do it. This can be done through us as well. The body of Myron can be used in this way. The body that you are identified with can be used in this way by Christ. Each time one of us chooses to remember the truth while we are living the illusion, we become a model that others can follow in the same way that Jesus did this for us.

Why do I think I am Myron? I have chosen to identify with the story of Myron and with the body that is part of this story and is called Myron. The more closely I identify with it the harder it is for me to consider I might be something else. If I am fully identified with Myron I will think this whole idea of being something else is insane.

I have gone through a period of allowing myself to consider another possibility. It has been a time of shifts. I shift my thinking, my belief, a little at a time. Because I was so identified with the story of Myron, I accepted all the “sins” I imagined were committed as if they were real, and as if they defined me.

First I had to relax my belief that I am only this body and this personality. Then I had to let go of the idea that I am this body/personality at all. I began to accept that this life I had imagined was me, is just an illusion. Because in identifying with the body of Myron as me I had also identified with all her “sins,” this was something to be let go. First I let go of the idea I am sinful, then I had to let go of the idea of sin. As I did this, I also shifted in my vision of all my brothers.

As I am letting go of what I thought was true, something else is taking its place. I am learning to see the false and to know its not true. Right now I see this happening in the present moment. It takes form in whatever way fits the story for today. I notice I have a headache and I remember that pain is not real. How interesting that I seemed to have called for pain. I wonder why I did that. I give the idea that pain could be real to the Holy Spirit. I am grateful that I know this is not real no matter the appearance.

This morning I realized that yesterday I got caught up in the story making plans and deciding what I should do. I notice the thought that I should not have done this. It is an invitation to guilt. This is just a thought and it doesn’t mean anything to me anymore. I did notice that it doesn’t feel peaceful to do this and I am choosing differently today. I give the Holy Spirit the idea that plans and decisions need to be made. I wait to see what comes next. 

I have such gratitude for Jesus I can barely contain it and it overflows as tears. I am grateful to him for being the way-shower. I am grateful to the Holy Spirit for being my guide and my comforter. I am grateful for another way, and that I am willing to claim this now.

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