A New Way to See

WB Lesson 136 Synopsis

Sickness is a defense, an insane device for self-deception. Like all the rest, its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it, render it inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce it to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole. The parts are seen as if each one were whole within itself.  [bold mine]

Defenses are not unintentional, nor are they made without awareness. They are secret, magic wands you wave when truth appears to threaten what you would believe.
Who but yourself evaluates a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to reduce the threat that has been judged as real? All this cannot be done unconsciously. But afterwards, your plan requires that you must forget you made it, so it seems to be external to your own intent; a happening beyond your state of mind, an outcome with a real effect on you, instead of one effected by yourself.

But what you have forgot can be remembered, given willingness to reconsider the decision which is doubly shielded by oblivion. Your not remembering is but the sign that this decision still remains in force, as far as your desires are concerned. Mistake this not for fact.

Sickness is not a thing that happens to you, quite unsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering. It is a choice you make, a plan you lay, when for an instant truth arises in your own deluded mind, and all your world appears to totter and prepare to fall. Now are you sick, that truth may go away and threaten your establishments no more.

How do you think that sickness can succeed in shielding you from truth? Because it “proves” the body is not separate from you, and so you must be separate from the truth. Thus is the body stronger than the truth, which asks you live, but cannot overcome your choice to die. Your defenses turn truth into lies, and all the universe made slave to laws which your defenses would impose on it. Yet who believes illusions but the one who made them up, and who else can see and react to them as if they were real?

God knows not of your plans to change His Will. Heaven has not bowed to hell, nor life to death. You can only choose to think you die, or suffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created is apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What is unalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.

Truth merely wants to give you happiness, for such its purpose is. Perhaps it sighs a little when you throw away its gifts, and yet it knows with perfect certainty, that what God wills for you must be received. It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. For time lets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it must be. What He Wills is here, and you remain as He created you.

Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. It comes to any mind that has laid down its arms and ceases to play with folly. It is found anytime, today, if you will choose to practice giving welcome to the truth.

Truth will come for it has never been apart from us. It merely waited for the invitation we give today. We use this invitation to help us rise above defensiveness, and let truth be as it always has been:
Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of
What I am and let my mind be healed today.

Healing will flash across your open mind, as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. There will be no dark corners sickness can conceal and keep defended from the Light of truth. Your mind will be healed of all the sickly wishes that it tried to authorize the body to obey.
As the purposes you gave the body are laid aside, the strength the body has will always be enough to serve truly useful purposes. You need do nothing now to make it well, for sickness has become impossible.

Yet this protection need to be preserved by careful watching. If you let your mind harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced yourself and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mind is sick.

Give instant remedy should this occur:
I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself.
Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body.
And my mind cannot attack. So I can not be sick.

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