Hello One Light,
A few days ago, as I was swamped in egoic thoughts, I was led to read Chapter 5 Section 2 in ACIM. The following sentences are what stood out to me. (paragraph numbers are not shown).
It seems that I was receiving the re-minder of What the Holy Spirit IS and does. I found in this reading, the many ways that I allow (choose) for the ego and not H.Spirit. What am I valuing here?
What do I want to make real? Love or fear? Why keep choosing what is impossible and will not lead me Home?
T-5.II.
4 The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness; the decision to heal the separation by letting it go.
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. 2 He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. 3 This is the vocation of the mind.
5 The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating.
8 His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. 9 It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other.
2 The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. 3 His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own.
2 Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided. 3 By choosing one you give up the other. 4 The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God.
The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. 2 You have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. 3 As a result, there are choices you must make. 4 In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 5 Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different. 6 Choosing depends on a split mind. 7 The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. 8 God did not leave His children comfortless, even though they chose to leave Him.
The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. 2 It does not demand, because It does not seek control. 3 It does not overcome, because It does not attack. 4 It merely reminds. 5 It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. 6 It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. 7 The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. 8 Peace is stronger than war because it heals. 9 War is division, not increase. 10 No one gains from strife. 11 What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 12 If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. 13 You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. 14 It is therefore “lost” to you until you choose right.
The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. 2 He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God.
Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar [devotion] you want to serve. 10 The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. 11 The decision is very simple. 12 It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.
I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. 2 This Mind is unequivocal, because it hears only one Voice and answers in only one way. 3 You are the light of the world with me. 4 Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.
When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. “Let us join together, for my message is light.”
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