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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 31 "THE SIMPLICITY OF SALVATION"
VII. "THE SAVIOR'S VISION"
82 Let not the world's light, given unto you, be hidden from the world. It needs the light, for it is dark indeed, and men despair because the savior's vision is withheld, and what they see is death. Their savior stands, unknowing and unknown, beholding them with eyes unopened. And they cannot see until he looks on them with seeing eyes and offers them forgiveness with his own. Can you to whom God says, "Release My Son!" be tempted not to listen when you learn that it is you for whom He asks release? And what but this is what this course would teach? And what but this is there for you to learn?
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The ego is idolatry; the sign
of limited and separated self,
born in a body, doomed to suffer and
to end its life in death. It is the will
that sees the Will of God as enemy,
and takes a form in which It is denied.
The ego is the "proof" that strength is weak
and love is fearful, life is really death,
and what opposes God alone is true.
The ego is insane. In fear it stands
beyond the Everywhere, apart from All,
in separation from the Infinite.
In its insanity, it thinks it has
become a victor over God Himself,
and in its terrible autonomy
it "sees" the Will of God has been destroyed.
It dreams of punishment, and trembles at
the figures in its dreams, its "enemies"
who seek to murder it before it can
ensure its safety by attacking them.
The Son of God is egoless. What can
he know of madness and the death of God,
when he abides in Him? What can he know
of sorrow and of suffering, when he
lives in eternal joy? What can he know
of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt,
of hatred and attack, when all there is
surrounding him is everlasting peace,
forever conflict-free and undisturbed,
in deepest silence and tranquility?
To know Reality is not to know
the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts,
its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes,
its plans for its salvation, and the cost
belief in it entails. In suffering,
the price for faith in it is so immense
that crucifixion of the Son of God
is offered daily at its darkened shrine,
and blood must flow before the altar where
its sickly followers prepare to die.
Yet will one lily of forgiveness change
the darkness into light; the altar to
illusions to the shrine of Life Itself.
And peace will be restored forever to
the holy minds which God created as
His Son, His dwelling-place, His joy, His love,
completely His, completely one with Him
~ Original Hand Script of ACIM
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L e s s o n 333
Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.
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Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be
evaded, set aside, denied, disguised,
seen somewhere else, called by another name,
nor hidden by deceit of any kind,
if it would be escaped. It must be seen
exactly as it is, where it is thought
to be, in the reality that has
been given it, and with the purpose that
the mind accorded it. For only then
are its defenses lifted, and the truth
can shine upon it as it disappears.
Father, forgiveness is the light You chose
to shine away all conflict and all doubt,
and light the way for our return to You.
No light but this can end our evil dreams.
No light but this can save the world. For this
alone will never fail in anything,
being Your gift to Your beloved Son.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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Lesson 333
Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.
Sarah's Commentary:
This lesson can be understood within the context of the original conflict that arose in our choice for the ego. In that decision, conflict arose in the mind as a result of the guilt and fear that came with the idea that we had chosen to leave God's Love, establish a separate will and make it on our own. Now we have a will that seems to be in opposition to God and thus conflict arises in the mind. This conflicted mind is now reflected in our relationships and in the circumstances and events of our lives. We live in fear of the attacks we think are coming at us. We fear the harm we believe is being initiated by others, and thus we set up defenses both physical and psychological. We feel at the mercy of the world, not recognizing that the conflict in our own minds is the cause of all we perceive. This is precisely why the problem must be resolved in the mind and not in the world.
This world is made up of separate and clashing wills because that is the essence of life in a world that was projected from a conflicted mind. That is why our conflicts can never be resolved in the world. They must be resolved at the source, which is in our own minds. In this dream, conflict is inevitable because the world is rooted in conflict, but outside of the dream, we experience the illusory nature of this world. We see the conflict we experience in the world is a projection of the conflict in our own minds when we experience a miracle. The miracle shifts our perception by showing us the way we saw before was a mistake. Through the miracle, what seemed to block us now opens up to a beautiful flow where all is given perfectly. When we don't defend or attack, when we take no offense, when we turn to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation of the events in our lives, the way is made easy.
"We have come to gentler pathways and to smoother roads."
(W.123.1.2)
"The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love."
(W.165.2.6) This becomes apparent to us when we do the work of watching the mind and bringing all blocks to love.
Today we are encouraged to look squarely at the conflict in our minds without evading it, setting it aside, denying it, disguising it, seeing it elsewhere, calling it by another name or hiding it. In other words, we are asked to undo our denial of where the conflict is. We are asked to give up our stories of victimhood and see our minds as the source of the conflict. Conflict in our lives may sound something like this, "You never listen to me." "I don't want to talk to you right now." "You are always leaving the TV on." "You never pay any attention to me." "I don't have a problem. You're the one that is angry" "Leave me alone. I'm having a bad day!" "Not now, I have a headache." "If you weren't so distant, I wouldn't have a problem!" "You are always blaming me for everything." "It is not my fault!"
Thus, we evade the conflict by avoiding, walking away or distracting ourselves with other things. We set it aside for later without necessarily addressing it later. We deny our anger by covering it over and pretending that everything is fine. We disguise it by blaming it on other things, hormones, bad drivers, a headache, or our need to be nice, polite, and sweet even though there is inner rage going on. We see it somewhere else by blaming someone else, or we just call it by another name such as my truth, setting boundaries, or being right.
Yet Jesus says the conflict in our minds must not be denied. He says that conflict must be resolved, which requires we take responsibility for the source of the conflict in our own minds. It will never be resolved in the world. It is about healing our own minds by looking at our projections on others and bringing them back into our own minds, thus the conflict can be released with the help of the Holy Spirit. It is only through forgiveness that our conflicts can be resolved. First, we must become aware of conflict as an outside picture of an inward condition. When the inner conflict is healed, we will still see bodies clashing, but they will have no effect on us.
The other day, I was in an argument with my partner and we were both angry with each other. The next day, after some period of withdrawal and silence, we came together seemingly in peace, but my mind was still obsessing that the problem was not resolved. I continued to feel there was still a problem that required some kind of resolution. In my meditation, the inner nudge I felt brought this question to mind, "Do you want peace or do you want resolution your way?" When I chose to let go of my need for resolution and chose peace as my only goal, I realized there truly was no problem except in my own mind. Nothing needed to be solved in the world. With that shift, nothing changed in form, but I no longer defined it as a problem. All was well.
"What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?"
(W.135.18.1) The only problem is when we determine what things should look like. It is when we decide what we need, what is good and what is bad in our lives.
Why do we deny the anger, rage, and hostility in our minds? We have such a desire to be innocent and to look good that we cover up the ego by putting on a face of innocence over our inner turmoil and thus we deny the anger. But we need to look under this cover and expose the ego for what it really is. This can seem difficult, if we judge ourselves for what shows up when we lift our defenses. We may start to feel discouraged about this journey, judging ourselves as less than spiritual. We won't make progress unless we accept this as the way to true innocence. We must look squarely at our hostility and accept this as just the nature of the character, but not who we are. We must see conflict exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality that has been given it and with the purpose the mind accorded it. We must hide nothing from ourselves.
When we find ourselves in a power struggle and blame our brother for how we are feeling, the answer lies in uncovering our own painful, needy side rather than using our brother to distract us from the need for healing. When we take back our own projected pain, it can be healed. Looking directly at thoughts and feelings with total honesty and courage is a very important aspect of our healing. With courage to look at our thoughts and take responsibility for everything that "seems" to be happening to us, we can look at our conflicts from outside of this dream and recognize their unreality. All conflict we see 'out there' is entirely internal. If we are raging at our spouse, a friend, a parent, or whomever, we must admit it is our rage. We must uncover every aspect of our thoughts around this situation and look at what purpose is being served by this conflict. Everything we do has some purpose, but we often hide this purpose from ourselves. That is the reason it can be challenging to look honestly at the conflicts in our own minds. The real source of conflict is that our will is in conflict with God's Will.
Recently, I have been dealing with a situation where my mother was placed in a care facility because the active treatment hospital would not continue to keep her there. The policy in this province is to move a person from active treatment to the first available bed no matter how inappropriate it is for the person. They languish there until an appropriate placement can be made, which can be as long as six month's wait time. In this situation, my mother was moved to a locked dementia placement, even though she is very bright, alert, and capable. Her only problem was her advanced age and her requirement for considerable amount of care with bodily needs. After trying any number of solutions to this situation, and experiencing many bureaucratic delays, I was feeling a lot of despair.
In my meditation, the despair showed up as murderous rage. Going deeper I felt an ocean of sadness that felt almost unbearable. Then a wave of guilt came over me as I realized the sadness was a reflection of being lost in this dream and making it all real. I felt such profound pain over my belief that I had left God and was on my own. An overwhelming feeling of "Oh my God, what have we done," washed over me and was so very painful I could hardly breathe. While I have written about the separation, I have never felt it so acutely. It is what Jesus is telling us is at the core of our being in our separated state, even though none of it is the truth of who we are. It seems I was given this situation to experience this profound experience of the pain of separation. As it turns out, we sprung mom loose from this place and the situation was resolved with everyone being helpful and cooperative along the way. Again, as every situation in the world offers us a classroom for the undoing of the wrong-minded beliefs in our minds, no matter what it may look like to us in the moment, it is all perfect.
I love the Section in Chapter 27,
"The Quiet Answer", which speaks beautifully about the issue of conflict. Basically, Jesus says, when we are in conflict,
"in your state of mind, solution is impossible."
(T.27.IV.2.2)(ACIM OE T.27. V.37) What is to be done? The answer is in the holy instant.
"Attempt to solve no problems but within the holy instant's surety."
(T.27.IV.3.1)(ACIM OE T.27.V.38) We are called to bring our conflicts to the light of truth and, through forgiveness, rise above the battleground to a place in our minds where there is quietness, peace and unity. This is the only place where we can ask a real question. This question comes from a mind not already positioning its own answer in the conflict.
"A question asked in hate cannot be answered because it is an answer in itself."
(T.27.IV.4.2) (ACIM OE T.27.V.38) In other words, if I ask Jesus to help me solve a particular problem, I have already told him through my question the answer I have determined I need in order to be happy. When a question is asked in honesty, it is to ask to see truly. Holy Spirit, how would You have me see this situation?
"Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the world. For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son."
(W.333.2.1-4) Forgiveness is about seeing our brother in the light of truth, and as we reach out to the holiness in his mind, we will know the holiness of our own mind. In that joining, we know we are the same---divine, innocent beings. The spark of truth is in all of us. We all share the One Self. The power of forgiveness is the power to heal the conflict that seems to be between us, yet is just an aspect of our own minds. The temptation is always to see this conflict as the responsibility of someone else. Whatever comes up today as a difficulty you perceive with anyone, recognize it all starts in your mind. When the barriers in your own mind are brought to light, love will come streaming in where the hatred previously took up residence.
Love and blessings, Sarah
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68 Learning is change. Salvation does not seek to use a means as yet too alien to your thinking to be helpful nor to make the kinds of change you could not recognize. Concepts are needed while perception lasts, and
changing concepts is salvation's task. For it must deal in contrasts, not in truth, which has no opposite and cannot change. In this world's concepts are the guilty "bad;" the "good" are innocent. And no one here but holds a concept of himself in which he counts the "good" to pardon him the "bad." Nor does he trust the "good" in anyone, believing that the "bad" must lurk behind. This concept emphasizes treachery, and trust becomes impossible. Nor could it change while you perceive the "bad" in
you.
69 You could not
recognize your "evil" thoughts as long as you see value in attack. You will perceive them sometimes, but will not see them as meaningless. And so they come in fearful form, with content still concealed, to shake your sorry concept of yourself and blacken it with still another "crime." You cannot give yourself your innocence, for you are too confused about yourself. But should
one brother dawn upon your sight as wholly worthy of forgiveness, then your concept of yourself
is wholly changed
. Your "evil" thoughts have been forgiven with his, because you let them all affect you not. No longer did you choose that you should be the sign of evil and of guilt in him. And as you gave your trust to what is good in him, you gave it to the good in you.
70 In terms of concepts, it is thus you see him more than just a body, for the good is never what the body seems to be. The actions of the body are perceived as coming from the "baser" part of you and thus of him as well. By focusing upon the good in him, the body grows decreasingly persistent in your sight and will at length be seen as little more than just a shadow circling round the good. And this will be your concept of
yourself, when you have reached the world beyond the sight your eyes alone can offer you to see. For you will not interpret what you see without the Aid that God has given you. And in His sight there
is another world.
71 You live in that world just as much as this. For both are concepts of yourself which can be interchanged, but never jointly held. The contrast is far greater than you think, for you will love this concept of yourself because it was not made for you alone. Born as a gift for someone not perceived to be yourself, it has been given
you. For your forgiveness, offered unto him, has been accepted now for
both of you.
72 Have faith in him who walks with you, so that your fearful concept of yourself may change. And look upon the good in him that you may not be frightened by your "evil" thoughts because they do not cloud your view of him. And all this shift requires is that you be
willing that this happy change occur. No more than this is asked. On its behalf, remember what the concept of yourself which now you hold has brought you in its wake, and welcome the glad contrast offered you. Hold out your hand that you may have the gift of kind forgiveness which you offer one whose need for it is just the same as yours. And let the cruel concept of yourself be changed to one which brings the peace of God.
73 The concept of yourself which now you hold would guarantee your function here remain forever unaccomplished and undone. And thus it dooms you to a bitter sense of deep depression and futility. Yet it need not be fixed unless you choose to hold it past the hope of change and keep it static and concealed within your mind. Give it instead to Him Who understands the changes that it needs to let it serve the function given you to bring you peace that you may offer peace to have it yours. Alternatives are in your mind to use, and you
can see yourself another way. Would you not rather look upon yourself as
needed for salvation of the world instead of as salvation's enemy?
74 The concept of the self stands like a shield, a silent barricade before the truth, and hides it from your sight. All things you see are images because you look on them as through a barrier which dims your sight and warps your vision, so that you behold nothing with clarity. The light is kept from everything you see. At most, you glimpse a shadow of what lies beyond. At least, you merely look on darkness and perceive the terrified imaginings that come from guilty thoughts and concepts born of fear. And what you see
is hell, for fear is hell. All that is given you is for release-the sight, the vision, and the inner Guide all lead you out of hell with those you love beside you and the universe with them.
75 Behold your role within the universe! To every part of true creation has the Lord of Love and Life entrusted
all salvation from the misery of hell. And to each one has He allowed the grace to be a savior to the holy ones especially entrusted to his care. And this he learns when first he looks upon
one brother as he looks upon himself and sees the mirror of himself in him. Thus is the concept of himself laid by, for nothing stands between his sight and what he looks upon to judge what he beholds. And in this single vision does he see the face of Christ and understands he looks on everyone as he beholds this One. For there is light where darkness was before, and now the veil is lifted from his sight.
76 The veil across the face of Christ, the fear of God and of salvation, and the love of guilt and death, they all are different names for just one error-that there is a space between you and your brother, kept apart by an illusion of yourself which holds him off from you and you away from him. The sword of judgment is the weapon which you give to the illusion of yourself that it may fight to keep the space that holds your brother off unoccupied by love. Yet while you hold this sword, you must perceive the body as yourself, for you are bound to separation from the sight of him who holds the mirror to another view of what he is and thus what
you must be.
77 What is temptation but the
wish to stay in hell and misery? And what could this give rise to but an image of yourself that
can be miserable and remain in hell and torment? Who has learned to see his brother
not as this has saved himself, and thus is he a savior to the rest. To everyone has God entrusted all, because a partial savior would be one who is but partly saved. The holy ones whom God has given each of you to save are everyone you meet or look upon, not knowing who they are, all those you saw an instant and forgot, and those you knew a long while since, and those you will yet meet, the unremembered and the not yet born. For God has given you His Son to save from every concept that he ever held.
78 Yet while you wish to stay in hell, how could you be the savior of the Son of God? How would you know his holiness while you see him apart from yours? For holiness is seen through holy eyes that look upon the innocence within and thus expect to see it everywhere. And so they call it forth in everyone they look upon that he may be what they expect of him. This is the savior's vision-that he see his innocence in all he looks upon and sees his own salvation everywhere. He holds no concept of himself between his calm and open eyes and what he sees. He
brings the light to what he looks upon, that he may see it as it really is.
79 Whatever form temptation seems to take, it always but reflects a wish to be a self which you are not. And from that wish, a concept rises, teaching that you
are the thing you wish to be. It will remain your concept of yourself until the wish that fathered it no longer is held dear. But while you cherish it, you will behold your brother in the likeness of the self whose image has the wish begot of
you. For vision
can but represent a wish, because it has no power to create. Yet it can look with love or look with hate, depending only on the simple choice of whether you would join with what you see or keep yourself apart and separate.
80 The savior's vision is as innocent of what your brother is as it is free of any judgment made upon yourself. It sees no past in anyone at all. And thus it serves a wholly open mind, unclouded by old concepts and prepared to look on only what the present holds. It cannot judge because it does not know. And
recognizing this, it merely asks, "What is the meaning of what I behold?" Then is the answer given. And the door held open for the face of Christ to shine upon the one who asks in innocence to see beyond the veil of old ideas and ancient concepts held so long and dear
against the vision of the Christ in you.
81 Be vigilant against temptation, then, remembering that it is but a wish, insane and meaningless, to make yourself a thing which you are not. And think as well upon the thing that you would be instead. It is a thing of madness, pain, and death; a thing of treachery and black despair, of failing dreams and no remaining hope except to die and end the dream of fear.
This is temptation, nothing more than this. Can
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are but two. Be not deceived by what appears as many choices. There is hell or Heaven, and of these you choose but
one.
82 Let not the world's light, given unto you, be hidden from the world. It
needs the light, for it is dark indeed, and men despair because the savior's vision is withheld, and what they see is death. Their savior stands, unknowing and unknown, beholding them with eyes unopened. And they cannot see until he looks on them with seeing eyes and offers them forgiveness with his own. Can you to whom God says, "Release My Son!" be tempted not to listen when you learn that it is
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