A Course in Miracles
Original Edition®
(non-profit)
|
|
“Transfer depends on common elements in the old learning and the new situation to which it is transferred."
Graphics by © Deposit Photos
|
|
The Mind of the Atonement
12 God honored even the miscreations of His Children because they had made them, but He also blessed them with a way of thinking that could raise their perceptions until they became so lofty that they could reach almost back to Him. The Holy Spirit is the Mind of the Atonement. It represents a state of mind that comes close enough to one-mindedness that transfer to it is at last possible. Transfer depends on common elements in the old learning and the new situation to which it is transferred. Perception is not knowledge, but it can be transferred to knowledge or cross over into it. It might even be more helpful here to use the literal meaning of "carried" over since the last step is taken by God.
ACIM OE TEXT
CH 5 HEALING AND WHOLENESS
|
|
A Course in Miracles
Original Edition®
|
|
Workbook for Students
Part 1
Review I
|
|
1 Beginning with today, we will have a series of review periods. Each of them will cover five of the ideas already presented, starting with the first and ending with the fiftieth. There will be a few short comments after each of the ideas which you should consider in your review. In the practice periods, the exercises should be done as follows: |
|
Continue to Read Online here
Audio Narration, Music, and Video
by Martin G. Weber-Caspers
Lesson ARCHIVE
|
|
A Course in Miracles
Original Edition®
Workbook for Students
|
|
Part 1 ~ Review I
Lesson 52
[Review Lessons 6-10]
|
|
1 Today's review covers these ideas:
[6] I am upset because I see what is not there.
2 Reality is never frightening. It is impossible that it could upset me. Reality brings only perfect peace. When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions which I made up. The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality and thus regard reality as an illusion. Nothing in God's creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. I am always upset by nothing.
[7] I see only the past.
3 As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon. I call this seeing. I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my "enemies." When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see. There will be no past and therefore no "enemies." And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.
[8] My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
4 I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. What, then, can I see as it is? Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.
[9] I see nothing as it is now.
5 If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing. I can see only what is now. The choice is not whether to see the past or the present: it is merely whether to see or not. What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. Now I would choose again that I may see.
[10] My thoughts do not mean anything.
6 I have no private thoughts. Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. What can these thoughts mean? They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless "private" thoughts?
|
|
Audio Narration, Music, and Video
by Martin G. Weber-Caspers
Lesson ARCHIVE
|
|
A Course in Miracles
Original Edition®
|
|
Chapter 5
Healing and Wholeness
III. The Mind of the Atonement
par 12-19
|
|
12 God honored even the miscreations of His Children because they had made them, but He also blessed them with a way of thinking that could raise their perceptions until they became so lofty that they could reach almost back to Him. The Holy Spirit is the Mind of the Atonement. It represents a state of mind that comes close enough to one-mindedness that transfer to it is at last possible. Transfer depends on common elements in the old learning and the new situation to which it is transferred. Perception is not knowledge, but it can be transferred to knowledge or cross over into it. It might even be more helpful here to use the literal meaning of "carried" over since the last step is taken by God.
13 The Holy Spirit, the shared Inspiration of all the Sonship, induces a kind of perception in which many elements are like those in the Kingdom of Heaven itself.
14 First, its universality is perfectly clear, and no one who receives it could ever believe for one instant that sharing it involves anything but gain.
15 Second, it is incapable of attack and is therefore truly open. This means that, although it does not engender knowledge, it does not obstruct it in any way.[Third, it is an unequivocal call to love. Every other voice is still.]
16 There is a point at which sufficient quantitative changes produce real qualitative differences. The next point requires real understanding, because it is the point at which the shift occurs. Finally, it points the way beyond the healing which it brings and leads the mind beyond its own integration into the paths of creation.
17 Healing is not creating; it is reparation. The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it to what the Children of God were before healing was needed and will be when they have been healed. This alteration of the time sequence should be quite familiar because it is very similar to the shift in time perception which the miracle introduces. The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness, the will to heal the separation by letting it go. This will is in you because God placed it in your mind, and although you can keep it asleep, you cannot obliterate it.
18 God Himself keeps this will alive by transmitting it from His Mind to yours as long as there is time. It is partly His and partly yours. The miracle itself is just this fusion or union of will between Father and Son. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. This is the vocation of the mind. The mind had no calling until the separation because before that it had only being and would not have understood the call to right thinking. The Holy Spirit was God's Answer to the separation, the means by which the Atonement could repair until the whole mind returned to creating.
19 The Atonement and the separation began at the same time. When man made the ego, God placed in him the call to joy. This call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound. That is why you can choose to listen to two voices within you. One you made yourself and that one is not of God. But the other is given you by God Who asks you only to listen to it. The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again.
|
|
Audio Narration, Music, and Video
by Martin G. Weber-Caspers
ONLINE SEARCHABLE Original Edition
Current Schedule of
|
|
|
|
ACIM Edmonton
Sarah's Workbook Reflections
Lesson 52 ~ Review I
[Review Lessons 6-10]
|
|
Each day begins now with the reading of the five ideas for the day and the comments that accompany each thought, with at least two minutes devoted to each idea. Think about each idea and related comments as often as possible during the day. If any idea particularly appeals to you, focus on that idea. Try to emphasize the central point for the idea, then spend time with your eyes closed, alone in a quiet place if possible. We are now looking at the relationships among the ideas, ". . . and the cohesiveness of the thought system to which they are leading you." (W.PI.RI.IN.6.4)
[To View PDF, turn device lengthwise and enlarge screen]
¡Las Reflexiones de Sarah están en español! AUDIO y PDF.
Love and blessings, Sarah
Please send gifts of gratitude for these commentaries to Sarah Huemmert via PayPal to huemmert@shaw.ca Also, your feedback is always welcome via this email address.
|
|
¡Nuevo! Los audios de Sarah's Reflections están en YOUTUBE
|
|
|
|
Allen Watson's
Workbook Commentaries
Lesson 52 ~ Review I
[Review Lessons 6-10]
|
|
Allen Watson joined Robert Perry to form the Circle of Atonement in 1993 in Sedona, Arizona, where Allen led retreats and workshops and authored many books based on “A Course in Miracles.”
Please send gifts of gratitude
|
|
ACIM OE on TWITTER
Click picture below
|
|
COURSE IN MIRACLES SOCIETY
(non-profit)
Tax-Deductible Donation
|
Presently CIMS projects are supported by free will gifts of time, talent, and money. If you would like to support any of the activities of the Society in any way, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
To make a Tax-Deductible Donation
in support of the Daily Lessons
Or Make a Tax-Deductible Donation
Also, by means of your will or other estate plan, you can name "Course in Miracles Society" as the beneficiary of a portion of your estate, or of particular assets in your estate. In this way, you are honoring your loved ones while also providing critical support to the extension of LOVE.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
