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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 26 "THE TRANSITION" X. "FOR THEY HAVE COME"
83Around you angels hover lovingly, to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin and keep the light where it has entered in. Your footprints lighten up the world, for where you walk forgiveness gladly goes with you. No one on earth but offers thanks to one who has restored his home and sheltered him from bitter winter and the freezing cold. And shall the Lord of Heaven and His Son give less in gratitude for so much more?
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The Holy Spirit mediates between
illusions and the truth. As He must bridge
the gap between reality and dreams,
perception leads to knowledge through the grace
that God has given Him, to be His gift
to everyone who turns to Him for truth.
Across the bridge that He provides, are dreams
all carried to the truth, to be dispelled
before the light of knowledge. There are sights
and sounds forever laid aside. And where
they were perceived before, forgiveness has
made possible perception's tranquil end.
The goal the Holy Spirit's teaching sets
is just this end of dreams. For sights and sounds
must be translated from the witnesses
of fear to those of love. And when this is
entirely accomplished, learning has
achieved the only goal it has in truth.
For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides
it to the outcome He perceives for it,
becomes the means to go beyond itself,
to be replaced by the Eternal Truth.
If you but knew how much your Father yearns
to have you recognize your sinlessness,
you would not let His Voice appeal in vain,
nor turn away from His replacement for
the fearful images and dreams you made.
The Holy Spirit understands the means
you made, by which you would attain what is
forever unattainable. And if
you offer them to Him, He will employ
the means you made for exile to restore
your mind to where it truly is at home.
From knowledge, where He has been placed by God,
the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let
forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be
restored to sanity and peace of mind.
Without forgiveness will your dreams remain
to terrify you. And the memory
of all your Father's Love will not return
to signify the end of dreams has come.
Accept your Father's gift. It is a call
from Love to Love, that It be but Itself.
The Holy Spirit is His gift, by Which
the quietness of Heaven is restored
to God's beloved Son. Would you refuse
to take the function of completing God,
when all He wills is that you be complete.
~ Original Hand Script
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L e s s o n 283 My true Identity abides in You.
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Father, I made an image of myself,
and it is this I call the Son of God.
Yet is creation as it always was,
for Your creation is unchangeable.
Let me not worship idols. I am He
my Father loves. His holiness remains
the light of Heaven and the Love of God.
Is not what is beloved of God secure?
Is not the light of Heaven infinite?
Is not God's Son my true Identity,
when He created everything that is?
Now are we one in shared Identity,
with God our Father as our only Source,
and everything created part of us.
And so we offer blessing to all things,
uniting lovingly with all the world
which our forgiveness has made one with us.
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LESSON 283
My true Identity abides in You.
Sarah's Commentary:
We might feel like we are being attacked when anyone says, "Who do you think you are?" Yet that is exactly what Jesus is asking us to question all the time. It is to really look at who we think we are. He tells us,
"Take not the judgment of the world as answer to the question, 'What am I?'"
(T.20.III.6.7)(ACIM OE T.20.IV.21). That is precisely what we have done. We think we have made ourselves by what others have said about us and by our own self-assessments. When we speak, we say, "I am this, and I think that." We are talking about ourselves as we know ourselves to be, reflecting all of our values, self-concepts and ideas that we hold and we think define us. This self we talk about includes our personality, our body, our history, our status, our roles, and our self-esteem, which are all changeable, unstable aspects that fluctuate over time. They are subject to all kinds of situational influences that seem to cause many emotional highs and lows.
Our self-image is a false identity, which we are constantly trying to fix, change and defend because it seems to be so very fragile. All it takes is for something to go wrong in our lives as we judge it, and we are thrown into a panic, or for someone to say something unkind about us, and we crumble, or for someone to leave us and we fall apart. What crumbles and gets hurt is this unstable character in the dream. It is not our true Self behind this character that is the dreamer of this dream. The Self we are is serene and unchangeable, always in a state of peace and One with God. When we are not experiencing that state, we are listening instead to the false self.
Jesus says when just one word, just a whisper of what someone might have said about us, upsets our world and hurls us into chaos, it is because of this made up identity that has no real foundation. It is simply not the truth about us. Yet he says,
"It is not you who are so vulnerable and open to attack that just a word, a little whisper that you do not like, a circumstance that suits you not, or an event that you did not anticipate upsets your world, and hurls it into chaos."
(T.24.III.3.1)(ACIM OE T.24.IV.28) It is in a vulnerable state because it has no foundation.
"Without foundation nothing is secure. Would God have left His Son in such a state, where safety has no meaning? No, His Son [our true Identity]
is safe, resting on Him."
(T.24.III.4.1-3)(ACIM OE T.24.IV.29) Our true Identity is not vulnerable at all.
"Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of God."
(W.283.1.1) This image is what we identify with and what we think is our reality. It is an idol which seems to have taken the place of our divinity.
"There is a stranger in him, who wandered carelessly into the home of truth and who will wander off."
(T.20.III.7.2(T.20.IV.22) Our divinity is holy, infinite, unchangeable, beloved of the Father. Our true Identity simply can't be changed, no matter what we think we have done. Our true Self is completely invulnerable to the vicissitudes of this world.
Through our true reality of who we really are blessings flow through us to all things
"uniting lovingly with all the world, which our forgiveness has made one with us."
(W.283.2.2) The way back to our Oneness, while we are seemingly in this world, is through forgiveness. That is the only way we are given as the means to wake up to who we really are. When thoughts come up today that interfere with our peace---thoughts that bring pain, loss, grief of any kind, anger, impatience, anticipation, or frustration---we remind ourselves this is not the truth. All thoughts we think apart from God mean we are not thinking at all. We are instead sending forth the appeal of fear and guilt.
"Under fear's orders the body will pursue guilt, serving its master whose attraction to guilt maintains the whole illusion of its existence. This, then, is the attraction of pain. Ruled by this perception the body becomes the servant of pain, seeking it dutifully and obeying the idea that pain is pleasure. It is this idea that underlies all the ego's heavy investment in the body."
(T.19.IV.Bi.13.2-5) (ACIM OE T.19.Vb.72)
We are upset because of the meaning we are giving to that which is meaningless. It is all about our interpretations, which are never right. Only the Holy Spirit's interpretation reflects God's love for us. Our part is to bring these fear and attack thoughts and our thoughts of specialness to the Holy Spirit for healing. It really is that simple. Our egoic mind makes it all feel difficult and complicated. The ego urges us to hold onto our hurts, disappointments and anger, as well as our dreams, fantasies and wishes and put our body in their service, but we don't have to listen.
"Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. He is at peace because He sees no sin. Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? He is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. How gently are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. How beautiful His hand that holds His brother's, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear."
(T.24. V.3.1-7)(ACIM OE T.24.VI.42) Now the body is put to a different purpose. It is put to the purpose of healing, and thus it is made holy.
"All things you made have use to Him, for His most holy purpose."
(T.14.VI.5.3)(ACIM OE T.14.III.20)
"The Christ in you is very still. He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself. His Holiness shows you Himself in him [every brother]
whose hand you hold, and whom you lead to Him. And what you see is like yourself. For what but Christ is there to see and hear and love and follow home? He looked upon you first, but recognized that you were not complete. And so He sought for your completion in each living thing that He beholds and loves. And seeks it still, that each might offer you the Love of God."
(T. 24.V.6.1-)(ACIM OE T.24.VI.40)
There are no accidents. Those who show up on our path are precisely there to help us. They are our saviors. They are our way back to the Self that we are. They are our saviors simply because they give us another opportunity to see a reflection of our own minds. When we maintain our self-made identities, we don't know who we are. We don't know where we are going. We are filled with fear and feel lost and alone. We see everyone as separate and different from us, and we feel like victims of their attacks from which we feel a need to defend ourselves. Through forgiveness we see that we all share the same needs for truth. Seeing that we are all the same is a reflection of the oneness that we share. Every attack is simply a call for love and a call for healing. The world is simply a mirror of everything going on in us that we have projected out.
"Who would send messages of hatred and attack if he but understood he sends them to himself?"
(T.19.IV.Bi.14.11)(ACIM OE T. 19.IVb. 73)
When we hold a positive self-concept, such as we are helpful in every situation, a dark side of this concept may come to mind. We may think those who show up in our lives may be demanding. Now we judge their demands of us and feel we are being taken advantage of. Now we have an opportunity to look at what we are demanding of ourselves when we try to please everyone. We can look at our own resentments. In looking at our self-made concepts, we can see how changeable they really are and therefore how unstable. Healing is about releasing them all, what we see as positive as well as what we judge as negative, so the truth of who we are can shine through. Concepts are like clouds in front of the sun. They block the light of our Being from our awareness.
When we create a space for the Holy Spirit through our determination to release those thoughts that hold us back from the truth of who we are, then He brings us the miracle which results in a shift from false perception to true perception. We don't have to understand how the miracle works. That is not something that needs to be known or understood. We just need to release the tight grip we hold on our beliefs, values, concepts and thoughts and be willing to see their falsity instead. When we step out of the dream and observe our thoughts without judgment, a space is made for truth to enter.
Love and blessings, Sarah
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77 Think but how holy you must be from whom the Voice for God calls lovingly unto your brother, that you may awake in him the Voice that answers to your call! And think how holy he must be when in him sleeps your own salvation with his freedom joined! However much you wish he be condemned, God is in him. And never will you know He is in you as well, while you attack His chosen home and battle with His host. Regard him gently. Look with loving eyes on him who carries Christ within him, that you may behold His glory and rejoice that Heaven is not separate from you.
78 Is it too much to ask a little trust for him who carries Christ to you, that you may be forgiven all your sins and left without a single one you cherish still? Forget not that a shadow held between your brother and yourself obscures the face of Christ and memory of God. And would you trade Them for an ancient hate? The ground whereon you stand is holy ground because of Them Who, standing there with you, have blessed it with Their innocence and peace.
79 The blood of hatred fades to let the grass grow green again and let the flowers be all white and sparkling in the summer sun. What was a place of death has now become a living temple in a world of light. Because of Them. It is Their Presence which has lifted holiness again to take its ancient place upon an ancient throne. Because of Them have miracles sprung up as grass and flowers on the barren ground which hate had scorched and rendered desolate. What hate has wrought have They undone. And now you stand on ground so holy Heaven leans to join with it and make it like itself. The shadow of an ancient hate has gone, and all the blight and withering have passed forever from the land where They have come.
80 What is a hundred or a thousand years to Them, or tens of thousands? When They come, time's purpose is fulfilled. What never was passes to nothingness when They have come. What hatred claimed is given up to love, and freedom lights up every living thing and lifts it into Heaven, where the lights grow ever brighter as each one comes home. The incomplete is made complete again, and Heaven's joy has been increased because what is its own has been restored to it. The bloodied earth is cleansed, and the insane have shed their garments of insanity to join Them on the ground whereon you stand.
81 Heaven is grateful for this gift of what has been withheld so long. For They have come to gather in Their Own. What has been locked is opened; what was held apart from light is given up, that light may shine on it, and leave no space nor distance lingering between the light of Heaven and the world.
82 The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love. And They come quickly to the living temple, where a home for Them has been set up. There is no place in Heaven holier. And They have come to dwell within the temple offered them, to be Their resting-place as well as yours. What hatred has released to love becomes the brightest light in Heaven's radiance. And all the lights in Heaven brighter grow, in gratitude for what has been restored.
83 Around you angels hover lovingly, to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin and keep the light where it has entered in. Your footprints lighten up the world, for where you walk forgiveness gladly goes with you. No one on earth but offers thanks to one who has restored his home and sheltered him from bitter winter and the freezing cold. And shall the Lord of Heaven and His Son give less in gratitude for so much more?
84 Now is the temple of the Living God rebuilt as host again to Him by Whom it was created. Where He dwells, His Son dwells with Him, never separate. And They give thanks that They are welcome made at last. Where stood a cross stands now the risen Christ, and ancient scars are healed within His sight. An ancient miracle has come to bless and to replace an ancient enmity that came to kill. In gentle gratitude do God the Father and the Son return to what is Theirs and will forever be. Now is the Holy Spirit's purpose done. For They have come! For They have come at last!
XI. The Remaining Task
85 What then remains to be undone for you to realize Their Presence? Only this-you have a differential view of when attack is justified and when you think it is unfair and not to be allowed. When you perceive it as unfair, you think that a response of anger now is just. And thus you see what is the same as different. Confusion is not limited. If it occurs at all, it will be total. And its presence, in whatever form, will hide Their Presence. They are known with clarity or not at all. Confused perception will block knowledge. It is not a question of the size of the confusion or how much it interferes. Its simple presence shuts the door to Theirs and keeps Them there unknown.
86 What does it mean if you perceive attack in certain forms to be unfair to you? It means that there must be some forms in which you think it
fair. For otherwise, how could some be evaluated as unfair? Some then are given meaning and perceived as sensible. And only some are seen as meaningless. And this denies the fact that
all are senseless-equally without a cause or consequence and cannot have effects of
any kind. Their Presence is obscured by any veil which stands between Their shining innocence and your awareness it is your own and
equally belongs to every living thing along with you. God limits not. And what is limited can
not be Heaven. So it
must be hell.
87 Unfairness and attack are
one mistake, so firmly joined that where one is perceived, the other must be seen. You cannot
be unfairly treated. The belief you are is but another form of the idea you are deprived by someone not yourself. Projection of the cause of sacrifice is at the root of everything perceived to be unfair and not your just deserts. Yet it is
you who ask this of yourself in deep injustice to the Son of God. You have no enemy except yourself, and you are enemy indeed to him because you do not know him
as yourself. What could be more unjust than that he be deprived of what he
is, denied the right to be himself, and asked to sacrifice his Father's love and yours as not his due?
88 Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated. In this view, you seek to find an innocence which is not Theirs but yours alone and at the cost of someone else's guilt. Can innocence be purchased by the giving of your guilt to someone else? And
is this innocence which your attack on him attempts to get? Is it not retribution for your own attack upon the Son of God you seek? Is it not safer to believe that you are innocent of this and victimized despite your innocence? Whatever way the game of guilt is played, there
must be loss. Someone must lose his innocence that someone else can take it from him, making it his own.
89 You think your brother is unfair to you because you think that one must be unfair to make the other innocent. And in this game do you perceive one purpose for your whole relationship. And this you seek to add unto the purpose given it. The Holy Spirit's purpose is to let the Presence of your holy Guests be known to you. And to this purpose, nothing
can be added, for the world is purposeless except for this. To add or take away from this
one goal is but to take away all purpose from the world and from yourself. And each unfairness that the world appears to lay upon you,
you have laid on
it by rendering it purposeless, without the function that the Holy Spirit sees. And simple justice has been thus denied to every living thing upon the earth.
90 What this injustice does to you who judge unfairly and who see as you have judged, you cannot calculate. The world grows dim and threatening, and not a trace of all the happy sparkle that salvation brought can you perceive to lighten up your way. And so you see yourself deprived of light, abandoned to the dark, unfairly left without a purpose in a futile world. The world is fair because the Holy Spirit has brought injustice to the light within, and there has all unfairness been resolved and been replaced with justice and with love. If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:
91 By this do I deny the Presence of the Father and the Son.
And I would rather know of Them than see injustice,
which Their Presence shines away.
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*Paragraph 36 does not appear in the Original Edition
manuscript. This content was restored in the 2009 Revision from an earlier manuscript and was numbered 35a. However, starting with the 2012 Revision, paragraph 35a was changed to 36 and therefore all of the following paragraphs, through the end of Chapter 26, have been renumbered. -Ed.
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