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You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. No one else can fill your part of It, and while you leave your part of It empty, your eternal place merely waits for your return. God, through His Voice, reminds you of It, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within It. Yet you do not know them until you return to them. You
cannot
replace the Kingdom, and you cannot replace
yourself
. God, Who
knows
your value, would not have it so, and so it is
not
so. Your value is in
God's
Mind and therefore not in yours alone.”
Par 57
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CH 9 THE CORRECTION OF ERROR
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Part I
Lesson 107
Truth will correct
all errors in my mind.
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1 What can correct illusions but the truth? And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? Where truth has entered, errors disappear. They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. They are gone because without belief they have no life, and so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came. From dust to dust they come and go, for only truth remains.
2 Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? How it would feel? Try to remember when there was a time—perhaps a minute, maybe even less—when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe. Then try to picture what it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity.
3 Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a hundred times and then be multiplied another hundred more. And now you have a hint, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state your mind will rest in when the truth has come.
4 Without illusions there could be no fear, no doubt, and no attack. When truth has come, all pain is over, for there is no room for transitory thoughts and dead ideas to linger in your mind. Truth occupies your mind completely, liberating you from all beliefs in the ephemeral. They have no place because the truth has come, and they are nowhere. They cannot be found, for truth is everywhere forever now.
5 When truth has come, it does not stay a while to disappear or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form, nor come and go and go and come again. It stays exactly as it always was, to be depended on in every need and trusted with a perfect trust in all the seeming difficulties and the doubts that the appearances the world presents engender. They will merely flow away when truth corrects the errors in your mind.
6 When truth has come, it harbours in its wings the gift of perfect constancy and love which does not falter in the face of pain but looks beyond it, steadily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the truth needs no defense, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond illusions and cannot be brought to them to turn them into truth.
7 Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this appearance now and then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp. It does not hide. It stands in open light, in obvious accessibility. It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly and would not succeed.
8 Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all. We do not ask for what we do not have. We merely ask for what belongs to us, that we may recognize it as our own.
9 Today we practice on the happy note of certainty that has been born of truth. The shaky and unsteady footsteps of illusion is not our approach today. We are as certain of success as we are sure we live and hope and breathe and think. We do not doubt we walk with truth today and count on it to enter into all the exercises that we do this day.
10 Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. You are not made of flesh and blood and bone but were created by the self-same Thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well. He is your Brother and so like to you your Father knows that you are both the same. It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?
11 Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. To share His function is to share His joy. His confidence is with you, as you say:
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Truth will correct all errors in my mind, and I will rest in Him Who is my Self.
13 Then let Him lead you gently to the truth which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly.
14 And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. They will increase with every gift you give of five small minutes, and the errors that surround the world will be corrected as you let them be corrected in your mind.
15 Do not forget your function for today. Each time you tell yourself with confidence, "Truth will correct all errors in my mind," you speak for all the world and Him Who would release the world as He would set you free.
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Chapter 9
The Correction of Error
VII. Grandeur Versus Grandiosity
Par 48-58
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48 Grandeur is of God and
only of Him. Therefore, it is in you. Whenever you become aware of it, however dimly, you abandon the ego automatically because in the presence of the grandeur of God the meaninglessness of the ego becomes perfectly apparent. Though it does not understand this, the ego believes that its "enemy" has struck and attempts to offer gifts to induce you to return to its "protection."
Self-inflation of the ego is its alternative to the grandeur of God. Which will you choose?
49 Grandiosity is
always a cover for despair. It is without hope because it is not real. It is an attempt to counteract your littleness, based on the belief that the littleness is
real. Without this belief, grandiosity is meaningless, and you could not possibly want it. The essence of grandiosity is competitiveness because it
always involves attack. It is a delusional attempt to
outdo but
not to undo. We said before that the ego vacillates between suspiciousness and viciousness. It remains suspicious as long as you despair of yourself. It shifts to viciousness whenever you will not tolerate self-abasement and seek relief. Then it offers you the illusion of attack as a solution.
50 The ego does not know the difference between grandeur and grandiosity because it does not know the difference between miracle impulses and ego-alien beliefs of its own. We once said that the ego
is aware of threat, but does not make distinctions between two entirely different kinds of threat to its existence. Its own profound sense of vulnerability renders it incapable of judgment
except in terms of attack. When it experiences threat, its only decision is whether to attack
now or to withdraw to attack later. If you accept its offer of grandiosity, it will attack immediately. If you do not, it will wait.
51 The ego is immobilized in the presence of God's grandeur because
His grandeur establishes
your freedom. Even the faintest hint of your reality literally drives the ego from your mind because of complete lack of investment in it. Grandeur is totally
without illusions, and because it is real, it is compellingly convincing. Yet the conviction of reality will not remain with you unless you do not allow the ego to attack it. The ego will make every effort to recover and mobilize its energies
against your release. It will tell you that you are insane and argue that grandeur
cannot be a real part of you because of the littleness in which
it believes.
52 Yet your grandeur is not delusional
because you did not make it.
You have made grandiosity and are afraid of it because it is a form of attack, but your grandeur is of God, Who created it out of His Love. From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your
abundance. By blessing, you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be anywhere
except in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you
will despair, and you
will attack.
53 The ego depends
solely on your willingness to tolerate it. If you are willing to look upon your grandeur, you
cannot despair, and therefore you cannot
want the ego. Your grandeur is God's
answer to the ego because it is true. Littleness and grandeur cannot co-exist, nor is it possible for them to alternate in your awareness. Littleness and grandiosity can and
must alternate in your awareness since both are untrue and are therefore on the same level. Being the level of shift, it is experienced as shifting, and extremes are its essential characteristic.
54 Truth and littleness are
denials of each other because grandeur
is truth. Truth does not vacillate; it is
always true. When grandeur slips away from you, you have replaced it with something
you have made. Perhaps it is the belief in littleness; perhaps it is the belief in grandiosity. Yet it
must be insane because it is
not true. Your grandeur will
never deceive you, but your illusions
always will. Illusions
are deceptions. You cannot triumph, but you
are exalted. And in your exalted state, you seek others like you and rejoice with them.
55 It is easy to distinguish grandeur from grandiosity because love is returned, but pride is not. Pride will not produce miracles and therefore will deprive you of your true witnesses to your reality. Truth is not obscure nor hidden, but its obviousness to
you lies in the joy you bring to its witnesses, who
show it to you. They attest to your grandeur, but they cannot attest to pride because pride is not shared. God
wants you to behold what He created because it is His joy.
56 Can your grandeur be arrogant when God Himself witnesses to it? And what can be real that
has no witnesses? What good can come of it? And if no good can come of it, the Holy Spirit cannot use it. What He cannot transform to the Will of God does not exist at all. Grandiosity is delusional because it is used to
replace your grandeur. Yet what God has created cannot
be replaced. God is incomplete without you because His grandeur is total, and you cannot
be missing from it.
57 You are altogether irreplaceable in the Mind of God. No one else can fill your part of It, and while you leave your part of It empty, your eternal place merely waits for your return. God, through His Voice, reminds you of It, and God Himself keeps your extensions safe within It. Yet you do not know them until you return to them. You
cannot replace the Kingdom, and you cannot replace
yourself. God, Who
knows your value, would not have it so, and so it is
not so. Your value is in
God's Mind and therefore not in yours alone. To accept yourself as God created you cannot be arrogance because it is the
denial of arrogance. To accept your littleness
is arrogant because it means that you believe
your evaluation of yourself is
truer than God's.
58 Yet if truth is indivisible, your evaluation of yourself must
be God's. You did not establish your value, and it
needs no defense. Nothing can attack it or prevail over it. It does not vary. It merely
is. Ask the Holy Spirit
what it is and He will tell you, but do not be afraid of His answer, for it comes from God. It
is an exalted answer because of its Source, but the Source is true and so is Its answer. Listen and do not question what you hear, for God does not deceive. He would have you replace the ego's belief in littleness with His own exalted answer to the question of your being, so that you can cease to question it and
know it for what it
is.
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Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 107
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Sarah's Commentary:
This Lesson contrasts truth and illusion and makes it clear that we cannot really know truth in this world, but we can experience its reflection. The Lesson provides clarification on how living in this state of reflection of truth would feel compared to staying invested in the world of illusion. We are provided with a very clear perspective on the ego thought system, which is designed to keep us from seeing the guilt in our minds. The guilt in the mind shields us from the truth, and the world shields us from looking at the guilt. The world becomes a screen onto which we project our guilt. Yet with courage to really look at our thoughts and take responsibility for them, they can be exposed and given over to be healed.
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