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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 31 "THE SIMPLICITY OF SALVATION"
VII. "THE SAVIOR'S VISION"
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.
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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
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L e s s o n 332
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness
sets it free.
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The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes
its evil dreams by shining them away.
Truth never makes attack. It merely is.
And by its Presence is the mind recalled
from fantasies, awaking to the Real.
Forgiveness bids this Presence enter in,
and take its rightful place within the mind.
Without forgiveness is the mind in chains,
believing in its own futility.
Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through
the dream of darkness, offering it hope,
and giving it the means to realize
the freedom that is its inheritance.
We would not bind the world again today.
Fear holds it prisoner. And yet Your Love
has given us the means to set it free.
Father, we would release it now. For as
we offer freedom, it is given us.
And we would not remain as prisoners,
while You hold out our freedom unto us.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 332
Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.
Sarah's Commentary:
This Lesson follows on the heels of the discussion on conflict yesterday. From this discussion, we could perhaps conclude there can be conflict between the truth and illusions. Yet this Lesson makes it perfectly clear that
"Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is."
(W.332.1.2-4) Truth merely awaits our invitation and imposes nothing on us. It enters in when we make space for it through forgiveness. Until we make space for truth it merely waits patiently for our readiness. Nothing is forced on us. It is our choice. Thus, we can conclude, truth is in the stillness.
"It [the miracle]
merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false."
(W.PII.Q13.1.3) There is no coercion, there are no demands, and there are no requirements. It is only about our decision to release all that is false.
"The search implies you are not whole within and fear to look upon your devastation, but prefer to seek outside yourself for what you are."
(T.29.VII.4.6)(ACIM OE T.29.VIII.46)
James Twyman, in his writings, said we should not get comfortable in the world. "What other path is there to walk but this path, the one where you have stood without moving while an entire Universe passes around you? Grow uncomfortable in your skin, for it is not your home. See what it is like to stretch free from these chains, then embrace the whole world. It is there for you now, if only you would choose to receive. Grow uncomfortable in this world, even this universe, that every world and every universe may be yours. Do not become comfortable with anything other than the truth, that which does not move and does not change. You are the heart of that truth, beating constantly and without end."
What we have actually become comfortable with is fear. We generally don't think fear is our friend, yet while we are comfortable in the world, we are actually being held willing prisoners to fear. We look to fear to protect us and our bodies are an embodiment of fear. Just think about it. Everything we do in the world is a reflection of fear. We constantly protect the body and the psyche against all kinds of potential attacks, whether it be the weather, viruses, accidents, or verbal and physical assaults. We protect against our fear by locking the house, putting on a seat belt, buying life insurance, saving money for the 'future', protecting our assets, exercising, eating right, groups we belong to, competing, and any number of defenses. There is nothing wrong with any of these. It is not that we should feel guilty that we build defenses against potential catastrophes, nor is there a requirement to stop doing any of these things.
It is not about changing our behaviors. Rather we are called to watch our thoughts about the situations we encounter in our lives, in order to recognize how much of an investment we have in our fear-driven strategies. These behaviors remind us over and over, how vulnerable we are when we think our reality is the body. The Course is not about changing behavior but about changing our minds. We are simply being invited to look at the fear thoughts behind the behaviors and bring them to awareness. As the mind is healed, some of our behaviors will naturally fall away, but that is not what is important. What is important is what is in the mind. Clearly it is not about exercising, buying insurance or locking our doors, but it is about what thoughts motivate the behaviors. They are all about our vulnerability as bodies living in the world. Certainly there is value in taking care of the body while we still believe we are a body as it can be put to a holy purpose. Everything can be used for watching our thoughts. The goal is to have the ego die before the body does.
I have a friend who is afraid of food. She lives in fear of eating the wrong food and getting sick. There is no joy in sharing a meal with her because all the discussion is about pesticides, genetically modified food, the dangers of eating meat, etc. There is nothing wrong with healthy eating. Her choices in food may well be the best choices to make for the well being of the body, but what needs to be looked at is the extent of the fear in the mind. I recently had a discussion with a salesperson about buying life insurance. I noticed how much fear came up in my mind when I listened to the sales pitch. I realize buying insurance would be based entirely on my fear of leaving difficult financial issues to my family. I am not saying this comes up for everyone who buys insurance, but I noticed my own fear thoughts.
I want to trust my future by placing it in the Hands of God, and there are those in my life who are a shining example of this for me and live without fear of financial security. It is not to deny what goes on in the world and what you are prompted to do, but we don't need to participate in its thought system. We all engage in the illusion to whatever extent, which we can do while still maintaining a state of peace. It is not what we are doing but with what mind-set we do it.
Sometimes, when we are in this place of discomfort and a sense of displacement in the world, we get very distressed. "What is wrong with me?" we ask. "Why does everyone else seem to be so content while I am feeling like I don't fit in, don't belong here?" You might consider this is actually a more powerful place to be than 'happily' lost in the illusion of our
"evil dreams."
(W.332.1.2) Further, there is no one on this planet who does not share in this sense of discomfort and displacement, no matter what it may look like. That sense of displacement and discomfort only changes when the truth we are shines through.
Truth is available to any one of us, at any moment we open up to it, meaning---when the fear that binds us to the world is released through forgiveness. It is through forgiveness truth will shine away these fantasies that keep us bound and in chains. These chains may appear to us to have some pleasant aspects to them when they serve our specialness as we see it. We are willing prisoners to our special relationships of bargaining and reciprocity. We call this love. Yet they are still fear-based. They lose their luster quickly, and even while we hold onto them they are all tinged with fear of loss. But regardless, the truth is all the fear thoughts we hold onto are illusory. They are thoughts in our own minds we have accepted as true. When truth dawns on our minds, we awaken to what is real. And thus our minds are
"recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real."
(W.332.1.5)
We will never be coerced by truth. It will come only to the extent the fear is released. We are always in control of how quickly we agree to turn over our illusions to be shined away, but it is the only hope being offered to
"realize the freedom"
(W.332.1.8) that is our inheritance. How much do you want freedom from fear? The offer is always there. Freedom is continually being held out for us to receive. How do we free ourselves? We will free ourselves only as we bring awareness to our fear thoughts. Forgiveness is about looking at all of our defenses and everything we hold dear, and bringing it all to the light of truth. With forgiveness, the chains that seem to bind us are loosened.
We take our brothers with us in this process as we are One Self. Forgiveness is what allows truth to enter in and to free us from this seemingly hopeless situation. Why does it feel hopeless? Because, with our investment in the ego thought system of sin, fear and guilt, there is no way out. It is a never-ending loop---What I think I see, what I see I experience, and what I experience I think. It is a dream of darkness all based on our wrong-minded thoughts. It is a world bound by fear, because it is based on the thought of fear. With that thought, that is what we see. Only through forgiveness are we freed from this loop. When our thought of fear is replaced by the thought of love, we still see the illusion, but we no longer participate in the thought system of this world. We are free of its hold on us.
We don't generally think all fear is unforgiveness. Fear comes from our belief that we have destroyed reality and now we fear God's punishment, which the ego has told us we need to escape from---into the body and the world. This is the God the ego has made. Forgiveness undoes the guilt and fear of this avenging God. All we are called to do is take responsibility for the guilt we project onto those whom we see as responsible for our condition. When we are willing to look at our guilt with honesty and courage, yet without judgment, we can be set free by the Holy Spirit. Only when we stubbornly justify our anger do we stay in hell. I found myself doing this today when I was feeling conflict with my brother. I am more willing now not to allow a lot of time to go by before I take responsibility for my anger. As Jesus says,
"If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of Christ to him."
(T.11.V.18.6)(ACIM OE T.10.IV.58) In other words, if I am not willing to see the Christ in him, no matter what he seems to have done, I am seeing him wrongly. It all starts with my own mind.
The beautiful thing is we do not have to fight against our anger and our fear. In fact, to do so would be counterproductive. We do not have to manifest anything, shout down the ego with affirmations or try to stay positive. All we need to do is allow the light of truth to shine away our fears. All we need to do is bring every thought of guilt and fear to awareness and be willing to question and release it. It is not about doing anything different in the world. It is about going from mindlessness to mindfulness. We do that by recognizing we can make a decision to bring our projections back into the mind, which is the only place we can choose again to have the Holy Spirit reinterpret our misperceptions.
Notice how, when you are in a state of fear, how powerless you feel. Notice how crippling guilt is in your life. We feel small and frail in its presence. Forgiveness offers us the opportunity to see how God's power can really work in our lives. As we recognize this power more and more, we grow in confidence in the truth of who we are as we were created by God. We are not these vulnerable, lost, and weak selves, but truly powerful beings. Freedom is being held out to us in this moment. Are we willing to be released now? Look at the situations you are facing where fear comes up for you. Allow yourself to forgive the people involved in this situation, and affirm that as we
"offer freedom, it is given to us."
(W.332.2.5) To give and to receive are one in truth.
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
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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