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"In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning, and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are
both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect love is in him. In the holy instant, you recognize the
idea of love in you and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it and could not
relinquish it. By holding it within itself, there
was no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss, but
completion. From this it follows you can
only give. And this
is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God."
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CH 15 THE PURPOSE OF TIME
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Review V
Introduction
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1 We now review again. This time we are ready to give more effort and more time to what we undertake. We recognize we are preparing for another phase of understanding. We would take this step completely, that we may go on again more certain, more sincere, with faith upheld more surely. Our footsteps have not been unwavering, and doubts have made us walk uncertainly and slowly on the road this course sets forth. But now we hasten on, for we approach a greater certainty, a firmer purpose and a surer goal.
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Steady our feet, our Father; let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him.
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So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.
4 This is the thought which should precede the thoughts that we review. Each one but clarifies some aspect of this thought or helps it be more meaningful, more personal and true, and more descriptive of the holy Self we share and now prepare to know again:
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God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
6 This Self alone knows love. This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its thoughts, knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself.
7 And it is This that waits to meet us at the journey's ending. Every step we take brings us a little nearer. This review will shorten time immeasurably if we keep in mind that This remains our goal, and as we practice, it is This to which we are approaching. Let us raise our hearts from dust to life as we remember This is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.
8 I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while,
that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out and now will lead you out with him. God's Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.
9 My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. I am reborn each time a brother's mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. I have forgotten no one. Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me.
10 Release me as you practice once again the thoughts I brought to you from Him Who sees your bitter need and knows the answer God has given Him. Together we review these thoughts. Together we devote our time and effort to them. And together we will teach them to our brothers. God would not have Heaven incomplete. It waits for you as I do. I am incomplete without your part in me. And as I am made whole, we go together to our ancient home, prepared for us before time was and kept unchanged by time, immaculate and safe, as it will be at last, when time is done.
11 Let this review be then your gift to me. For this alone I need—that you will hear the words I speak and give them to the world. You are my voice, my eyes, my feet, my hands, through which I save the world. The Self from Which I call to you is but your own. To Him we go together. Take your brother's hand, for this is not a way we walk alone. In him I walk with you and you with me. Our Father wills His Son be one with Him. What lives but must not then be one with you?
12 Let this review become a time in which we share a new experience for you, yet one as old as time, and older still. Hallowed your name. Your glory undefiled forever. And your wholeness now complete, as God established it. You are His Son, completing His extension in your own. We practice but an ancient truth we knew before illusion seemed to claim the world. And we remind the world that it is free of all illusions every time we say,
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God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
14 With this we start each day of our review. With this we start and end each period of practice time. And with this thought we sleep, to waken once again with these same words upon our lips to greet another day. No thought that we review but we surround with it and use the thoughts to hold it up before our minds and keep it clear in our remembrance throughout the day. And thus when we have finished this review, we will have recognized the words we speak are true.
15 Yet are the words but aids and to be used, except at the beginning and the end of practice periods, but to recall the mind as needed to its purpose. We place faith in the experience that comes from practice, not the means we use. We wait for the experience and recognize that it is only here conviction lies. We use the words, and try and try again to go beyond them to their meaning, which is far beyond their sound. The sound grows dim and disappears as we approach the Source of meaning. It is here that we find rest.
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Lesson 171
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God is but Love,
and therefore so am I.
[151] All things are echoes of the Voice of God.
God is but Love,
and therefore so am I.
[152] The power of decision is my own.
God is but Love,
and therefore so am I.
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Chapter 15
The Purpose of Time
VII. The Holy Instant and
the Laws of God
Par 58-64
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58 All separation vanishes as holiness is shared. For holiness is power, and by sharing it, it
gains in strength. If you seek for satisfaction in gratifying your needs as
you perceive them, you must believe that strength comes from another, and what
you gain
he loses. Someone must
always lose if you perceive yourself as weak. Yet there is another interpretation of relationships which transcends the concept of loss of power completely.
59 You do not find it difficult to believe that, when another calls on God for love,
your call remains as strong. Nor do you think that, by God's answer to him,
your hope of answer is diminished. On the contrary, you are far more inclined to regard his success as witness to the possibility of
yours. That is because you recognize, however dimly, that God is an
idea, and so your faith in Him is
strengthened by sharing. What you find difficult to accept is the fact that, like your Father,
you are an idea. And like Him, you can give yourself completely,
wholly without loss, and
only with gain.
60 Herein lies peace, for here there
is no conflict. In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning, and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are
both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect love is in him. In the holy instant, you recognize the
idea of love in you and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it and could not
relinquish it. By holding it within itself, there
was no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss, but
completion. From this it follows you can
only give. And this
is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.
61 In the holy instant, the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all. When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound or limited in any way. In this instant, he is as free as God would have him be. For the instant he
refuses to be bound, he is
not bound.
62 In the holy instant, nothing happens that has not always been. Only the veil that has been drawn
across reality is lifted. Nothing has changed. Yet the
awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside. No one who has not yet experienced the lifting of the veil and felt himself drawn irresistibly into the light behind it can have faith in love
without fear. Yet the Holy Spirit
gives you this faith because He offered it to me and I
accepted it. Fear not the holy instant will be denied you, for I denied it not. And through me the Holy Spirit gave it unto you, as
you will give it. Let no need that you perceive obscure your need of this. For in the holy instant, you will recognize the only need the aspects of the Son of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in
offering what is needed.
63 It is through
us that peace will come. Join me in the
idea of peace, for in ideas minds
can communicate. If you would give
yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand selfhood. And therein is love's meaning understood. But remember that understanding is of the
mind and
only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. If you were not only an idea and
nothing else, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. Yet as long as you
prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else
together, the language of communication, which you know perfectly, you will not remember.
64 In the holy instant God is remembered, and the language of communication with all your brothers is remembered with Him. For communication is remembered
together, as is truth. There is no exclusion in the holy instant because the past is gone and with it goes the whole
basis for exclusion. Without its source, exclusion vanishes. And this permits
your Source and that of all your brothers to replace it in your awareness. God and the power of God will take their rightful place in you, and you will experience the full communication of ideas with ideas. Through your ability to do this, you will learn what you
must be, for you will begin to understand what your Creator is and what His creation is along with Him.
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Lesson 171 ~ Review V
[Review Lessons 151-152]
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Sarah's Commentary:
The Reviews don't give us much now except the introduction and a few lines each day; so, it is important to look at what Jesus is instructing us to do in this Review. He starts by urging us to now give more effort and more time to the Lessons. He wants us to take this seriously, since maintaining the ego has cost us our happiness.
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