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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 13 "FROM PERCEPTION TO KNOWLEDGE"
V. THE GUARANTEE OF HEAVEN
 

God willed you Heaven and will always will you nothing else. The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is. You will learn salvation, because you will learn how to save. It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wills to teach you. Salvation is as sure as God. His certainty suffices. Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbed the mind of God's sleeping Son holds no power over him. He will learn the lesson of awaking. God watches over him, and light surrounds him.   

     

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   Now we review again, this time aware
   we are preparing for the second part

   of learning how the truth can be applied.

   Today we will begin to concentrate

   on readiness for what will follow next.

   Such is our aim for this review and for

   the lessons following. Thus we review

   the recent lessons and their central thoughts

   in such a way as will facilitate

   the readiness which we would now achieve.|

 

   There is a central theme which unifies

   each step in the review we undertake.

   It can be simply stated in these words:

 

   " My mind holds only what I think with God."

 

   This is a fact. And represents the truth

   of What you are and What your Father is.

   It is this Thought by Which the Father gave

   creation to the Son, establishing

   the Son as co-creator with Himself.

   It is this Thought Which fully guarantees

   salvation to the Son. For in his mind

   no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares.

   Lack of forgiveness blocks this Thought from his

   awareness. Yet It is forever true.|

 

   Let us begin our preparation with

   some understanding of the many forms

   in which the lack of true forgiveness may

   be carefully concealed. Because they are

   illusions, they are not perceived to be

   but what they are; defenses which protect

   your unforgiving thoughts from being seen

   and recognized. Their purpose is to show

   you something else, and hold correction off

   through self-deception made to take its place.|

 

   And yet your mind holds only what you think

   with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take

   the place of truth. No more than can a child

   who throws a stick into the ocean change

   the coming in and going out of tides,

   the warming of the water by the sun,

   the silver of the moon on it by night.

   So do we start each practice period

   in this review with readying our mind

   to understand the lessons that we read

   and see the meaning which they offer us.|

 

   Begin each day with time devoted to

   the preparation of your mind to learn

   what each idea you will review that day

   can offer you in freedom and in peace.

   Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts

   that would deceive, and let this Thought alone

   engage it fully and remove the rest:

 

   " My mind holds only what I think with God."

 

   Five minutes with this Thought will be enough

   to set the day along the lines which God

   appointed, and to place His Mind in charge

   of all the thoughts you will receive that day.|

   They will not come from you alone, for they

   will all be shared with Him. And so each one

   will bring the message of His Love to you,

   returning messages of yours to Him.

   So will communion with the Lord of Hosts

   be yours, as He Himself has willed it be.

   And as His Own completion joins with Him,

   so will He join with you who are complete

   as you unite with Him and He with you.|

 

   After your preparation, merely read

   each of the two ideas assigned to you

   to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes

   and say them slowly to yourself. There is

   no hurry now, for you are using time

   for its intended purpose. Let each word

   shine with the meaning God has given it

   as it was given to you through His Voice.

   Let each idea that you review today

   give you the gift which He has laid in it

   for you to have of Him. And we will use

   no format for our practicing but this:|

 

   Each hour of the day, bring to your mind

   the Thought with which the day began, and spend

   a quiet moment with It. Then repeat

   the two ideas you practice for the day

   unhurriedly, with time enough to see

   the gifts which they contain for you, and let

   them be received where they were meant to be.|

   We add no other thoughts, but let them be

   the messages they are. We need no more

   than that to give us happiness and rest

   and endless quiet, perfect certainty,

   and all our Father wills that we receive

   as the inheritance we have of Him.

 

   Each day of practicing, as we review,

   we close as we began, repeating first

   the Thought that made the day a special time

   of blessing and of happiness for us;

   and through our faithfulness restored the world

   from darkness to the light, from grief to joy,

   from pain to peace, from sin to holiness.|

   God offers thanks to you who practice thus

   the keeping of His Word. And as you give

   your mind to the ideas for the day

   again before you sleep, His gratitude

   surrounds you with the peace wherein He willed

   you be forever, and are learning now

   to claim again as your inheritance.

      
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   [133] "I will not value what is valueless."

 

   [134] "Let me perceive forgiveness as it is."   

 

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What is it that I give value to? What bodily concerns do I have that seem important to my well-being, my safety, and my image? What do I believe will bring satisfaction? Today, not only do we evaluate the things in our lives, but also what draws our attention---why we are doing what we are doing. What is the purpose? How are we choosing to use our time? What do we strive for? What do we really want? What do we believe will make us happy? Where are our attachments? What do we deem important? And most of all, what is it for?

These, and other questions, are part of how we examine our lives when we are not on auto pilot simply putting one foot in front of the other, and never asking about the purpose behind everything. It is our questions that got us on this path in the first place. It is our searching that motivated us to question what is valuable and what is valueless to our awakening. Yet it is also our disappointments, our hurts and our heartbreaks that contribute to our journey. Jesus teaches that we don't know the difference between what is helpful and what sets us back. We think our heartaches are defeats when, in fact, they can offer the greatest gains in our spiritual advancement. It is the acceptance of it all that can alleviate our suffering. Only the ego insists, " I want it thus!" (T.18.II.4.1)(ACIM OE T.18.III.17) Everything that serves the ego's purposes can be used by the Holy Spirit, when we choose to turn it all over for healing.
 
How many trivial things are occupying your mind today? Jesus tells us that, as we are drawn into the things of this world, we ask for sorrow. We ask for too little of life. We are not asked to sacrifice what we value, but only realize that it is indeed valueless, and there can never be satisfaction in the valueless. The power we have is in the choices that we make, but the range of choice is only two. We choose the valuable or the valueless, with each choice we make. We choose everything or nothing. Everything offers us the eternal, where no one loses, there is no compromise, and  there is no guilt. Guilt is the measure by which we can tell what we have chosen. When we gain at our brother's expense, we too feel that we should have nothing. We give loss and get loss for ourselves. We receive what we give, because we always only give to ourselves.

We now have criteria, where we can apply these four tests and ask: " What purpose does it serve?" (W.133.8.4) Is my goal to know the eternal Self, where I have everything with no guilt, or for the world of the ego, where guilt is reinforced? This choice is there for us in every situation. Do I want to know my eternal Self, and offer benefit for all my brothers, or do I look for my personal benefit, which is always at the expense of my brothers, though I lie to myself about my motives, while working hard to maintain an image of innocence?
 
Jesus asks us why does the choice we make has value to us and what attracts our minds to it? What purpose does it serve? And, unless we are able to really look at these questions honestly, we will be deceived. The ego is devious. We do everything we can in order to look innocent and pretend that our intentions are noble and honest when, indeed, they are anything but that when guided by the ego. The guilt in our minds is protected by our projections. Thus, we blame others for our lack of peace that we ourselves have chosen to throw away. We blame them for taking it from us. We are cautioned by Jesus not to make mistakes into sins, but just to notice that " the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain" (W.133.9.3) by the choice made for the ego. The ego is maintained through guilt, which leads to our punishing ourselves, accepting ourselves as unworthy and attacking ourselves and others. Thus, the cycle of guilt and fear is continued. Jesus reminds us that nothing real has happened and thus there is no cause for guilt. Each time that we choose attack, we have merely failed to gain. And when we recognize that our plans for our happiness will always fail, we are ready to turn to the Holy Spirit to be taught the nature of true happiness. " How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery, and the awareness that your plan has failed, and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind?" (T.24.II.14.2)(ACIM OE T.24.III.25)
 
Through forgiveness, Jesus teaches that all thoughts that are not of God can be undone. This involves looking at your ego thoughts without judgment and recognizing the cost to you in holding these thoughts. They are thoughts of fear, guilt, anxiety, depression, hate, special love, anger, upset, vulnerability, and anything that keeps us separate from others. Any blame that we put on others for how we feel is an indication that we are not prepared to take responsibility for our own minds as the cause of our distress, whatever form it takes. Forgiveness requires that we look at the thoughts that show up in our experience, without judging ourselves for them. When we are willing to recognize that we are never upset for the reason we think, (W.5) we are shown that all of our upsets originate with ourselves, and behind any upset is some kind of wound.

" I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked." (T.21.II.2.3-5(ACIM OE T.21.III.15) When we recognize our responsibility for the guilt that is in our minds, we are given an opportunity to make a choice to let the Holy Spirit take our misperceptions and offer a new interpretation for the ones we have made. He shows us that no one is guilty, including us. He shows us that in letting go of guilt and blame, peace returns to our minds. Thus, with forgiveness, we are making a choice for our happiness. Now we feel worthy of Heaven's Love. Only that is true. Our thoughts about everything are false. Holy Spirit, help me to recognize that what I see is always my wrong interpretation. The Son of God is innocent. Nothing he thinks he has done is worthy of condemnation. " Let me perceive forgiveness as it is." (W.134.14.6) To forgive is not to overlook something that is real. All behavior either reflects love or is a call for love. It is our own call for understanding, as we recognize our sameness. We forgive in order to release ourselves from the judgments we have placed on ourselves, and projected onto our brothers. When we project our guilt onto our brother, we see our sins now in him. It is really just our own self-condemnation that we see. Forgiveness removes the chains we have laid on ourselves. By our willingness to release our brother, we are freeing ourselves, because it is only our minds that are making it all up. Thus, I ask for help in forgiving myself for using you to project my unconscious guilt, which keeps me from knowing the truth about myself.
 
Forgiveness is the only way out of suffering that is incurred every time we judge something as not the way it should be. When our expectations of how a situation, or an event, should be, or how others should meet our requirements, we are railing against the Love that is our reality. We are saying that we are right about the way we see things, and right about the way we require things to be in order for us to be happy. We are telling God that His Love is not enough and that there is something else that we have set up as a requirement for our happiness. It is this that we need to bring to mind and see that we are wrong about the way we have judged the situation. Now we have an opportunity to bring our misperceptions to the Holy Spirit and choose to see them differently. When we agree to surrender our way, we have taken an important step toward forgiveness.

A friend recently was speaking to her daughter about an incident that had happened a few years ago when her daughter was much younger. My friend had taken her daughter to a dance rehearsal and judged that the teacher was being unnecessarily harsh and domineering with the young students. She chastised the teacher in front of the students. The teacher was very upset and quit her role and told my friend to take over, if she felt she could do it better. My friend was not about to take this role and apologized profusely for what she had done. Her daughter expressed how embarrassed she was at what had happened. Recently, they were again recalling this situation. The daughter told her mother that what the mother had not understood was how much she, the daughter, loved the structure and the discipline, having been raised in a home where there were few restrictions. What came to light was how mistaken my friend, the mother, found her perceptions had been. She was dealing with her own unhealed wound by trying to change things in form. Now, she had another opportunity to look at this situation with new awareness.

Forgiveness recognizes that, if love is the only reality, anything that is distressing or disturbing to our minds cannot be real. When we insist on holding these distressing thoughts and we justify them, we suffer. Yet through our decision to take responsibility for them, we can choose again. Thus, we see that our self-induced decision to suffer need not be. We can now bring all thoughts, that keep us in a state of suffering, to the light. Forgiveness makes space for the love that is in us, but is being blocked by our choice for the ego.

We continue our practice, as before, beginning and ending the day with time devoted to the preparation of our minds to learn what each idea can offer us in freedom and in peace. Let us commit today to raising every judgment, every belief and every concept we hold, to doubt. Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive. Continue with the hourly remembrance and whenever you feel triggered by anything today, do the practice of letting go of the false and remembering the truth.
       
Love and blessings, Sarah

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V. The Guarantee of Heaven     

37 When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you value here. For nothing that you value here you value wholly, and so you do not value it at all. Value is where God placed it, and the value of what God esteems cannot be judged, for it has been established. It is wholly of value. It can merely be appreciated or not. To value it partially is not to know its value. In Heaven is everything God valued and nothing else. Heaven is perfectly unambiguous. Everything is clear and bright and calls forth one response. There is no darkness, and there is no contrast. There is no variation. There is no interruption. There is a sense of peace so deep that no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of what it is.

 

38 Nothing in this world can give this peace, for nothing in this world is wholly shared. Perfect perception can merely show you what is capable of being wholly shared. It can also show you the results of sharing while you still remember the results of not sharing. The Holy Spirit points quietly to the contrast, knowing that you will finally let Him judge the difference for you, allowing Him to demonstrate which must be true. He has perfect faith in your final judgment because He knows that He will make it for you. To doubt this would be to doubt that His mission will be fulfilled. How is this possible, when His mission is of God?

 

39 You whose minds are darkened by doubt and guilt, remember this: God gave the Holy Spirit to you and gave Him the mission to remove all doubt and every trace of guilt that His dear Son has laid upon himself. It is impossible that this mission fail. Nothing can prevent what God would have accomplished from accomplishment. Whatever your reactions to the Holy Spirit's Voice may be, whatever voice you choose to listen to, whatever strange thoughts may occur to you, God's will is done. You will find the peace in which He has established you, because He does not change His Mind. He is invariable as the peace in which you dwell and of which the Holy Spirit reminds you.

 

40 You will not remember change and shift in Heaven. You have need of contrast only here. Contrast and differences are necessary teaching aids, for by them you learn what to avoid and what to seek. When you have learned this, you will find the answer that makes the need for any differences disappear. Truth comes of its own will unto its own. When you have learned that you belong to truth, it will flow lightly over you without a difference of any kind. For you will need no contrast to help you realize that this is what you want, and only this. Fear not the Holy Spirit will fail in what your Father has given Him to do. The Will of God can fail in nothing.

 

41 Have faith in only this one thing, and it will be sufficient: God wills you be in Heaven, and nothing can keep you from it or it from you. Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing. They will not prevail against the peace God wills for you. The Holy Spirit will restore your sanity, because insanity is not the Will of God. If that suffices Him, it is enough for you. You will not keep what God would have removed, because it breaks communication with you with whom He would communicate. His voice will be heard.

 

42 The Communication Link which God Himself placed within you, joining your minds with His, cannot be broken. You may believe you want it broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication which God would share with you is known. Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him. Peace will be yours, because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace. You have it now. The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it and, by projecting it, to learn that it is in you.

 

43 God willed you Heaven and will always will you nothing else. The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will. There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is. You will learn salvation, because you will learn how to save. It will not be possible to exempt yourself from what the Holy Spirit wills to teach you. Salvation is as sure as God. His certainty suffices. Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbed the mind of God's sleeping Son holds no power over him. He will learn the lesson of awaking. God watches over him, and light surrounds him.

 

44 Can God's Son lose himself in dreams when God has placed within him the glad call to waken and be glad? He cannot separate himself from what is in him. His sleep will not withstand the call to wake. The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. It is so. Yet the Will of God must be accepted as your will to know it.

 

45 The Holy Spirit cannot fail to undo for you everything you have learned that teaches you what is not true must be reconciled with truth. This is the reconciliation which the ego would substitute for your reconciliation unto sanity and unto peace. The Holy Spirit has a very different kind of reconciliation in His Mind for you, and one which He will effect as surely as the ego will not effect what it attempts.

 

46 Failure is of the ego, not of God. From Him you cannot wander, and there is no possibility that the plan the Holy Spirit offers to everyone for the salvation of everyone will not be perfectly accomplished. You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you and by you in return. For how can you remember what was never true or not remember what has always been? It is this reconciliation with truth, and only truth, in which the peace of Heaven lies.


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