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A Course in Miracles is a self-study course.
In the beginning it tells us, "This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean
you can establish the curric...
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 20 "THE PROMISE OF THE RESURRECTION"
VI. HERALDS OF ETERNITY
How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you? What would you want except his offering? His worth has been established by his Father, and you will recognize it as you receive his Father's gift through him. What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad. You will not think to judge him, for who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning? For this insistence is of those who do not see. Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these.
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Forgiveness recognizes what you thought
your brother did to you has not occurred.
It does not pardon sins, and make them real.
It sees there was no sin. And in this view
are all your sins forgiven. What is sin
except a false idea of God's Son?
Forgiveness merely sees its falsity,
and therefore lets it go. What then is free
to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes
a judgment that it will not raise to doubt,
although it is untrue. The mind is closed,
and will not be released. The thought protects
projection, tightening its chains, so that
distortions are more veiled and more obscure;
less easily accessible to doubt,
and further kept from reason. What can come
between a fixed projection and the aim
that it has chosen as its needed goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things.
In frantic action it pursues its goal,
twisting and overturning what it sees
as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortion is its purpose, and the means
by which it would accomplish it as well.
It sets about its furious attempts
to smash reality without concern
for anything that would appear to pose
a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still
and quietly does nothing. It offends
no aspect of reality, nor seeks
to twist it to appearance that it likes.
It merely looks and waits and judges not.
He who would not forgive must judge, for he
must justify his failure to forgive.
But he who would forgive himself must learn
to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show
you what to do through Him Who is your Guide,
your Saviour and Defender, strong in hope
and certain of your ultimate success.
He has forgiven you already, for
such is His function, given Him by God.
Now must you share His function, and forgive
whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees,
and whom He honors as the Son of God. "
~ Original Hand Script September 21, 1970
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DAILY LESSON
L e s s o n 227
This is my holy instant of release.
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Father, it is today that I am free,
because my will is Yours. I thought to make
another will. Yet nothing that I thought
apart from You exists. And I am free
because I was mistaken, and did not
affect my own reality at all
by my illusions. Now I give them up,
and lay them down before the feet of truth,
to be removed forever from my mind.
This is my holy instant of release.
Father, I know my will is one with Yours.
And so today we find our glad return
to Heaven, which we never really left.
The Son of God this day lays down his dreams.
The Son of God this day comes home again,
released from sin and clad in holiness,
with his right mind restored to him at last.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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LESSON 227
This is my holy instant of release.
Sarah's Commentary:
The intent of our practice of the lessons right now is to enter the holy instant. What is the holy instant? It is the instant outside of time in which we choose forgiveness instead of guilt, the miracle instead of the grievance, and the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. It is the expression of our little willingness to enter the experience of the present which is a window on eternity. Holding onto the past and fearing the future is what keeps us in hell. The holy instant is an experience of Oneness. It is a sense of transcendence from our identification with the body. It is joining with our brothers where separate interests are dissolved. It is an acceptance of the truth about ourselves. Thus, you can see that the holy instant is a very flexible concept covering all kinds of experiences of the truth of who we are as Spirit. The experiences may be fleeting, yet increase as we practice the lessons and apply them in our lives more and more. They bring us to a way of being as we open to the real world. The real world reflects the truth that is in the right mind.
Through the experiences of the holy instant, we are released from our mistaken idea that we have defiled ourselves and are too guilt ridden to ever return home. With guilt comes the fear of God's punishment, which the ego has told us we have coming to us because of our sin. The guilt and fear that come as a result of our belief in sin are projected onto the world. Now we experience a world of suffering, where problems abound. But the experience of separation will be dissolved in the Holy Spirit's gentle love as we bring all of our misperceptions about ourselves and the world to His healing light. Now our wrong-minded thoughts give way and the recognition that our will is one with God's Will comes to awareness.
"You are the Will of God. Do not accept anything else as your will, or you are denying what you are. Deny this and you will attack, believing you have been attacked. But see the Love of God in you, and you will see it everywhere because it is everywhere. See His abundance in everyone and you will know that you are in Him with them. They are part of you, as you are part of God. You are as lonely without understanding this as God Himself is lonely when His Sons do not know Him. The peace of God is understanding this."
(T.7.VII.10.1-8)(ACIM OE T.7.VIII.80)
Yes, as Jesus tells us in this lesson, we do think we have made another will, but in spite of what we believe, it does not actually exist at all. To us it does seem that we have a separate will from God's Will. We experience ourselves as separate, alone, with a unique individual identity. We seem to have private thoughts, beliefs and opinions that we alone believe we experience. Yet it is clear
"nothing that I thought apart from You (God)
exists."
(W.227.1.3) Thus, who I think I am does not even exist! We are all characters in a dream playing out a role with other characters we think are as real as we think we are! Ideas do not leave their source. Everything we see is a projection of what is in our minds.
We exercise our separate will when we focus on what we want to accomplish, what we are hoping to have happen, what conflicts we believe are in front of us to resolve, our individual goals, our plans for safety, comfort and pleasure, and our self-preservation both physically and psychologically. Or we talk of using our willpower to overcome some addiction or other perceived malady in ourselves and are thus exerting force instead of connecting to the power available to us. When we recognize that
"my will is Yours [God's]
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(W.227.1.1) we are surrendering to His Will and joining in His Power. We admit in and of ourselves and through our own willpower, we are actually powerless. We give up our illusions and
"lay them down before the feet of truth."
(W.227.1.5) Once we truly do that, our illusions are forever removed from our minds.
The key is to surrender our goals, our plans, our perceived outcomes and our control. We surrender our thoughts and release them into His Hands and give up being in charge of our own lives. Through forgiveness, we release the thoughts we are holding that interfere with our ability to experience the holy instant. In the Song of Prayer pamphlet, a supplementary to the Course, we are told forgiveness, as defined in this Course, is very different from traditional forgiveness, which is called "forgiveness to destroy." The key difference is that forgiveness, as defined in the Course, rests on the truth that what your brother did to you did not happen. Why, because in truth, nothing that does not come from God exists. Only our interpretation about what seemed to happen is what must be released.
Our beliefs create the struggle for us. We believe our reality is a body. We believe we can find happiness in special relationships. We believe this world is real. We believe we can accomplish anything we determine to do entirely on our own. We believe we are separate from each other and different from each other. We believe there are things in this world that will make us happy. We believe we are totally justified in the way we see things. We defend our positions vigorously. Don't all these things seem to be the case in this seeming reality? What do we do? Why do we stay attached to these positions? Why have we closed our minds instead of raising all of our perceptions to doubt? Because we have become comfortable with the status quo, which means we are comfortable with our suffering, our experiences, our struggle and our story. It is something we know and it shows us we exist. Where will this Course take me if I really commit to learning these lessons? What will God want from me? What will I have to give up? What will I become? Who will I be? The fear is of annihilation of this special self that we cling to.
In "What is Forgiveness?", Jesus tells us,
"Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing."
(W.PII.Q1.4.1) "My spouse left me." "
It [Forgiveness]
merely looks, and waits, and judges not."
(W.PII.Q1.4.3) "My boss chastised me." "
It [Forgiveness
] merely looks, and waits, and judges not." "Someone cut me off in traffic." "
It [Forgiveness]
merely looks, and waits, and judges not." What it means is that forgiveness looks at the ego thought system, waits patiently for us to change our minds, and looks without judgment on ourselves or others in the process. It does not smash reality into a more desirable shape. We have no idea what anything in our lives is for. We simply do not know what any of it means. Our own interpretations are always wrong. Now we agree to release our interpretations and instead turn them over to the Holy Spirit, Who will infuse everything that seems to happen with His purpose, which is undoing the way we see now. We surrender our will and our way!
"The Holy Spirit asks of you but this; bring to Him every secret you have locked away from Him. Open every door to Him, and bid Him enter the darkness and lighten it away. At your request He enters gladly. He brings the light to darkness if you make the darkness open to Him. But what you hide He cannot look upon. He sees for you, and unless you look with Him He cannot see."
(T.14.VII.6.1-6)(ACIM OE T.14.IV.30)
Thus, to enter the holy instant, we clear our minds of what we think we know, what we are withholding, our defenses, our grievances, our will, and our way, and surrender into the quiet center of our being where we commune with Stillness. This requires no effort. In fact, striving to achieve it puts the ego in charge of our awakening, which will never work. Striving will keep us from this experience. Putting the ego in charge of this process is like trying to make yourself holy. You can't do it. Just bring your awareness to the thoughts that arise and be willing to recognize that they are not the truth. By taking these thoughts of past hurts, disappointments, anger, hatred, shame, pride, sickness, death, worry, aging, frustrations, impatience and laying
"them down before the feet of Truth," they are
"removed forever from my mind."
(W.227.1.5)
"The world you see is but the idle witness that you were right. This witness is insane. You trained it in its testimony, and as it gave it back to you, you listened and convinced yourself that what it saw was true. You did this to yourself. See only this and you will also see how circular the reasoning on which your 'seeing' rests."
(T.21.II.5.1-5)(ACIM OE T.21.III.19)
Love and blessings, Sarah
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37 In this world, God's Son comes closest to himself in a holy relationship. There he begins to find the certainty his Father has in him. And there he finds his function of restoring his Father's laws to what was held outside them and finding what was lost. Only in time can
anything be lost, and
never lost forever. So do the parts of God's Son gradually join in time, and with each joining is the end of time brought nearer. Each miracle of joining is a mighty herald of eternity. No one who has a single purpose, unified and sure, can be afraid. No one who shares his purpose with him can
not be one with him.
38 Each herald of eternity sings of the end of sin and fear. Each speaks in time of what is far beyond it. Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let them beat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome. Peace to your holy relationship, which has the power to hold the unity of the Son of God together. You give to one another for everyone, and in your gift is everyone made glad. Forget not Who has given you the gifts you give, and through your not forgetting this will you remember Who gave the gifts to Him to give to you.
39 It is impossible to overestimate your brother's value. Only the ego does this, but all it means is that it wants the other for itself and therefore values him too
little. What is inestimable clearly cannot
be evaluated. Do you recognize the fear that rises from the meaningless attempt to judge what lies so far beyond your judgment you cannot even see it? Judge not what is invisible to you or you will never see it, but wait in patience for its coming. It will be given you to see your brother's worth when all you want for him is peace. And what you want for him, you will receive.
40 How can you estimate the worth of him who offers peace to you? What would you want except his offering? His worth has been established by his Father, and you will recognize it as you receive his Father's gift through him. What is in him will shine so brightly in your grateful vision that you will merely love him and be glad. You will not think to judge him, for who would see the face of Christ and yet insist that judgment still has meaning? For this insistence is of those who do not see. Vision or judgment is your choice, but never both of these.
41 Your brother's body is as little use to you as it is to him. When it is used only as the Holy Spirit teaches it
has no function, for minds need not the body to communicate. The sight that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship. And while you look upon each other thus, the means and end have not been brought in line. Why should it take so many holy instants to let this be accomplished, when one would do? There is but one. The little breath of eternity that runs through time like golden light is all the same-nothing before it, nothing afterwards.
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You look upon each holy instant as a different point in time.
It never changes. All that it ever held or will ever hold is here right now. The past takes nothing from it, and the future will add no more. Here, then, is everything. Here is the loveliness of your relationship, with means and end in perfect harmony already. Here is the perfect faith that you will one day offer to each other
already offered you. And here the limitless forgiveness you will give each other
already given; the face of Christ you yet will look upon
already seen.
43 Can you evaluate the giver of a gift like this? Would you exchange this gift for any other? This gift returns the laws of God to your remembrance. And merely by remembering them, the laws that held you prisoner to pain and death must be forgotten. This is no gift your brother's body offers you. The veil that hides the gift hides him as well. He is the gift, and yet he knows it not. No more do you. And yet, have faith that He Who sees the gift in both of you will offer and receive it for you both. And through His vision will you see it, and through His understanding recognize it and love it as your own.
44 Be comforted and feel the Holy Spirit watching over you in love and perfect confidence in what He sees. He knows the Son of God and shares his Father's certainty the universe rests in his gentle hands in safety and in peace. Let us consider now what he must learn, to share his Father's confidence in him. What is he, that the Creator of the universe should offer it to him and know it rests in safety? He looks upon himself not as his Father knows him. And yet it is impossible the confidence of God should be misplaced.
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