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“You
will undertake a journey because you are
not at home in this world. And you
will search for your home whether you know where it is or not. If you believe it is outside yourself, the search will be futile, for you will be seeking it where it is not. You do not know how to look within yourself, for you do not
believe your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit knows it
for you, and He will guide you
to your home because that is His mission. As He fulfills
His mission, He will teach you
yours, for your mission is the same as His. By guiding your
brothers home, you are but following Him.”
Par 40
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CH 11 GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION
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Part I
Lesson 127
There is no love but God's.
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1 Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance. It is the heart of God, and also of His Son.
2 Love's meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change. He does not see that changing love must be impossible. And thus he thinks that he can love at times and hate at other times. He also thinks that love can be bestowed on one and yet remain itself although it is withheld from others. To believe these things of love is not to understand it. If it could make such distinctions it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.
3 Love cannot judge. As it is one itself, it looks on all as one. Its meaning lies in oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part. There is no love but God's, and all of love is His. There is no principle which rules where love is not. Love is a law without an opposite. Its wholeness is the power holding everything as one, the link between the Father and the Son which holds them both forever as the same.
4 No course whose purpose is to teach you what you really are could fail to emphasize there is no difference in what you are and what love is. Love's meaning is your own, and shared by God Himself. For what you are is what He is. There is no love but His, and what He is, is everything there is. There is no limit placed upon Himself, and so are you unlimited as well.
5 No laws the world obeys can help you grasp love's meaning. What the world believes was made to hide love's meaning and to keep it dark and secret. There is not one principle the world upholds but violates the truth of what love is and what you are as well. Seek not within the world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness and in death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to eyes that see and ears that hear its Voice.
6 Today we practice making free our mind of all the laws you think you must obey, of all the limits under which you live, and all the changes which you think are part of human destiny. Today we take the largest single step this course requests in your advance toward its established goal. If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means today, you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release.
7 Let us together, then, be glad to give some time to God today and understand there is no better use for time than this. For 15 minutes twice today escape from every law in which you now believe. Open your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon its meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the Gift of God replace them all.
8 Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today and help you understand the truth of love. In loving gentleness, He will abide with you as you allow His Voice to teach love's meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the L e s s o n with His Love.
9 Today the legion of the future years of waiting for salvation disappears before the timelessness of what you learn. Let us give thanks today that we are spared a future like the past. Today we leave the past behind us, never more to be remembered. And we raise our eyes upon a different present, where a future shines unlike the past in every attribute.
10 The world in infancy is newly born. And we will watch it grow in strength and health to shed its blessing upon all who come to learn to cast aside the world they thought was made in hate to be love's enemy. Now are they all made free along with us. Now are they all our brothers in God's Love.
11 We will remember them throughout the day because we cannot leave a part of us outside our love if we would know our Self. At least three times an hour think of one who makes the journey with you and who came to learn what you must learn. And as he comes to mind, give him this message from your Self:
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I bless you, brother, with the Love of God which I would share with you. For I would learn the joyous lesson that there is no love but God's and yours and mine and everyone's.
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Chapter 11
God's Plan for Salvation
V. Seeking and Finding
Par 36-42
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36 The ego is certain that love is dangerous, and this is always its central teaching. It never
puts it this way; on the contrary, everyone who believes that the ego is salvation is intensely engaged in the search for love. Yet the ego, though encouraging the search very actively, makes one proviso—do not
find it. Its dictates, then, can be summed up simply as, "Seek and do
not find." This is the one promise the ego holds out to you and the one promise it will
keep. For the ego pursues its goal with fanatic insistence, and its reality testing, though severely impaired, is completely consistent.
37 The search which the ego undertakes is therefore bound to be defeated. And since it also teaches that it is
your identification, its guidance leads you to a journey which must end in perceived
self-defeat. For the ego
cannot love, and in its frantic search for love, it is seeking what it is
afraid to find. The search is inevitable because the ego is part of your mind, and because of its source, the ego is not wholly split off, or it could not be believed at all. For it is
your mind that believes in it and gives existence to it. Yet it is also your mind that has the power to
deny the ego's existence, and you will surely do so when you realize exactly what the journey is on which the ego sets you.
38 It is surely obvious that no one wants to find what would
utterly defeat him. Being unable to love, the ego would be totally inadequate in love's presence, for it could not respond at all. You would
have to abandon the ego's guidance, for it would be quite apparent that it had not taught you the response pattern you
need. The ego will therefore
distort love and teach you that love calls forth the responses which the ego
can teach. Follow its teaching, then, and you will
search for love but will not
recognize it.
39 Do you realize that the ego must set you on a journey which cannot
but lead to a sense of futility and depression? To seek and
not to find is hardly joyous. Is this the promise
you would keep? The Holy Spirit offers you another promise, and one that will lead to joy. For
His promise is always, "Seek and you will
find," and under His guidance you cannot
be defeated. His is the journey to
accomplishment, and the goal He sets before you He will
give you. For He will never deceive God's Son, whom He loves with the love of the Father.
40 You
will undertake a journey because you are
not at home in this world. And you
will search for your home whether you know where it is or not. If you believe it is outside yourself, the search will be futile, for you will be seeking it where it is not. You do not know how to look within yourself, for you do not
believe your home is there. Yet the Holy Spirit knows it
for you, and He will guide you
to your home because that is His mission. As He fulfills
His mission, He will teach you
yours, for your mission is the same as His. By guiding your
brothers home, you are but following Him.
41 Behold the Guide your Father gave you that you might learn you have eternal life. For death is not your Father's Will nor yours, and whatever is true
is the Will of the Father. You pay no price for life, for that was given you, but you
do pay a price for death, and a very heavy one. If death is your treasure, you will sell everything else to purchase it. And you will believe that you
have purchased it
because you have sold everything else. Yet you
cannot sell the Kingdom of Heaven. Your inheritance can neither be bought
nor sold. There can
be no disinherited parts of the Sonship, for God is whole, and all His extensions are like Him.
42 The Atonement was not the price of our wholeness, but it
was the price of your
awareness of your wholeness. For what you chose to "sell" had to be kept for you since you could not "buy" it back. Yet
you must invest in it, not with money but
with your Spirit. For Spirit is will, and will
is the "price" of the Kingdom. Your inheritance awaits only the recognition that you have
been redeemed. The Holy Spirit guides you into life eternal, but
you must relinquish your investment in death, or you will not
see life though it is all around you.
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Lesson 127
There is no love but God's.
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Sarah's Commentary:
Jesus tells us,
"Today we make the largest single step this course requests in your advance towards its established goal."
(W.127.6.5) This kind of statement should certainly get our attention. Why would this be such an important Lesson? This is fairly self-evident because the Lesson points us to the absolute truth. He emphasizes today,
"No course whose purpose is to teach you to remember what you are could fail to emphasize that there can never be a difference in what you really are and what love is."
(W.127.4.1) To know love is to know our Self.
"If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what love means today,
you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years."
(W.127.7.1) This motivates me to pay attention to the message of this Lesson. We can make great advances in the practice of this Lesson when we no longer leave ourselves outside of the love we are.
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