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IA56

5th November 2015, 09:52 AM

PART II

Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone.
The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. Now we begin
to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was Always geared. Now we attempt to let the experience
be merely a beginning. For we wait in quiet expectations for our God and Father. He has promised He will take the final stelp Himself. And we
are sure His promises are kept. He have come far along the road, andd now we wait for Him. We will continue spending time with Him each
morning and at night, as long as makes us happy. We will not consider time a matter of duration now. We use as much as we will need for the
result that we desire. Nor will we forget our hourly remembrance in between, Calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to
forget our goal. We will continue with a central thought for all the days to come, and we will use that thought to introduce our times of rest, and
calm our minds at need. Yet we will not content ourselves with simple practicing in the remaining holy instants which conclude the year that we
have given God. We say some simple Words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself, as He ahs promised. We have called on Him,
and He has promised that His Son will not remain unanswered when he calls His Name. Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds
and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice. He would not fail to take when we invited Him. He has not
let left His Son in alll his madness, nor betrayed His trust in Him. Has not His faithfulness earned Him the invitation that He seeks to make us happy?
We will offer it, and it will be accepted. So our times with Him will now be spent. We say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we
wait for Him to come to us. Now is the time of prophesy fulfilled. Now are all ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains for time to
separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come you when you have recognized
it is your will He do so. And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will. I am so Close to you we cannot fail.
Father, we give these holy times to You, in Gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the World of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us
by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journeyÂ´s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through ChristÂ´s
vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own. And now we wait in silence, unafraid and
certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide YOu sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we
know that YOu will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. We will with You in asking this. The Father
and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon
Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. And so we start upon the final part of this one holy year, which we have spent together in the search
for truth and God, Who is its one Creator. We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has
held us up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began. We had a wish that God would fail to
have the Son whom He created for Himself. We wanted God to change Himself, and be what we would make of Him. And we believed that our insane desires
were the truth. Now we are glad that this is all undone, and we no longer think illusions true. The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons of our
minds. A moment more, and it will rise again. A moment more, and we who are GodÂ´s SonÂ´s are safely home, where He would have us be. Now is the need for
practice almost done. For in this final section, we will come to understand that we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we
need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. We will accept the way
GodÂ´s plan will end, as we received the way it started. Now it is complete. This year has brought us to eternity. Our further use for Words we still retain. From time
to time, instructions on a theme of special relevance wil intersperse our daily lessons and the periods of wordless, deep experience which should come afterwards.
These special thoughts should be reviewed each day, each one of them to be continued till the next is given you. They should be slowly read and thought about a
little while, preceding one of the holy and blessed instants in the day. We give the first of these instructions now:

What is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness reconginzes what you thought your brother did to you has not occured. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees these was no sin.
And in theat view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about GodÂ´s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.
What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, althought it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released.
The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further
kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgivning thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortions is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for
anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its Point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely
looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must
learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of
your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom
He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.

Love

IA56

6th November 2015, 06:44 AM

LESSON 221

"Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still."

"Father, I come to You today to seek the Peace that You alone can
give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of
my mind. I wait and listen to Your Voice. My Father, speak to me
today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and
love, sure You will hear my call and answer me."

Now do we wait in quiet. God is here, because we wait together. I
am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. Accept my
confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one
intent; to hear our FatherÂ´s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be
still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of whast we are, and
to reveal Himself unto His Son.

Love

IA56

7th November 2015, 08:13 AM

LESSON 222

"God is with me. I live and move in Him."

God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I
breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews
and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I live and move; the
Spirit Which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and
guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and
with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines
on Him. How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!

"Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and
in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask
to rest with You in peace a while."

Love

IA56

8th November 2015, 10:58 AM

LESSON 223

"God is my life. I have no life but His."

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate
entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a
body. Now I know my life is GodÂ´s, I have no other home, and I
do not exist apart from Him. He has no Thoughts that are not part of
me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

"Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes.
For we who are Your holy son are sinless. We would look upon our
sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. And we
would not forget You longer. We are lonely here, and long for
Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return. Our Name
is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son."

Love

IA56

9th November 2015, 09:43 AM

LESSON 224

"God is my Father, and He loves His Son."

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great,
wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give
it light.t lights the World as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me;
the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but This that can be
either given or received. This is reality, and only This. This is
illusionÂ´s end. It is the truth.

"My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten
it, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do.
Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal
what You would have me see instead."

Love

IA56

10th November 2015, 08:05 AM

LESSON 225

"God is my Father, and His Son loves Him."

"Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving
and the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return
it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and
keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear
behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is
led along to You."

Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we
follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I
will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we
seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that
was not begun.

Love

IA56

11th November 2015, 08:01 AM

LESSON 226

"My home awaits me. I will hasten there."

If I so choose. I can depart this World entirely. It is not death which
makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the
world. If I Believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain
for me. But if I see no value in the World as I behold it, nothing that I
want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me.
For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

"Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open
and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a Place of vain
desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be
mine?

Love

IA56

12th November 2015, 06:26 AM

LESSON 227

"This is my holy instant of release."

"Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. I
thought to make another will. Yet nothing that I thought apart from
You exists. And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect
my own reality at all by my illusions. Now I give them up, and lay
them down Before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my
mind. This is my holy instant of release. Father, I know my will is
one with Yours."

And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never
really left. The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. The Son of
God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in
holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.

Love

IA56

13th November 2015, 09:21 AM

LESSON 228

"God has condemned me not. No more do I."

My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and
Believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as
true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I
am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true
condition of His Son?

"Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the
Source from Which I came, I have not left that Source to enter in a
body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of
You. And my mistakes about myself are Dreams. I let them go
today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I
really am."

Love

IA56

14th November 2015, 05:16 AM

LESSON 229

"Love, Which created me, is what I am."

I seek my own Identity, and find It in these Words: "Love, Which
created me, is what I am." Now need I seek no more. Love has
prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn
away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon
attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but Which my Father
has kept safe for me.

"Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my
Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin
my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from
them. Amen.

Love

IA56

15th November 2015, 08:07 AM

LESSON 230

"Now will I seek and find the peace of God."

In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not give me
to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He
created me He gave me Peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am.
And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

"Father, I seek the peace you gave as mine is my creation. What
was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from
time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your
Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as
You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave.
It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son."

Love

IA56

16th November 2015, 05:55 AM

What is Salvation?

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your
way to him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will
have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in the time will end
as well. GodÂ´s Word is given every mind which Thinks that it has
separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts conflikt with the
Thoughts of peace.
The Thought of peace was given to GodÂ´s Son the instant that his
mind had thgought of war. There was no need for such a Thought
before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But
when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that
has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the
mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did
not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.
Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to
support the world of Dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By
not supporting them, it merely lets then, quietly go down to dust.
And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God
whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid
before it, and the memory of God not far behind.
Let us come Daily to this holy place, and spend a while together.
Here we share our final Dream. It is a Dream in which there is no
sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass
is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have
come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new
perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.
From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation
was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that
freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and GodÂ´s Son has but
an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are
done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now
exists at all.

LESSON 231

"Father, I will but to remember You."

"What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I
seek for something else; a something I have called by many names.
Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is
nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember
You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?"

This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and
with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven.
This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.

Love

IA56

17th November 2015, 05:16 AM

LESSON 232

"Be in my mind, my Father, through the day."

"Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me
throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I
dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that
You have remained with me, and Always will be there to hear my
call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts
be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety,
certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son."

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear.
Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let
Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are
His Son.

Love

IA56

18th November 2015, 07:28 AM

LESSON 233

"I give my life to God to guide today."

"Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of
mine. In Place to them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as
well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot
be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today, I come to
You. I will step back and merely follow you. Be You the Guide, and
I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor
Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your
perfect gift to me."

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together,
we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day.
And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.

Love

IA56

19th November 2015, 06:51 AM

LESSON 234

"Father, today I am Your Son again."

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are
gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a
tiny instant has elapset between eternity and timelessness. So brief
the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts
which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to
disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as
wholly true today.

"We thank you, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You
and of Your Love. We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all
the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have
received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have
given us that we are saved."

Love

IA56

20th November 2015, 04:45 AM

LESSON 235

"God in His mercy wills that I be saved."

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with
perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this,"
and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my
FatherÂ´s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has
come to me. And I need but remember that GodÂ´s Love surrounds His
Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am
saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am
saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

"Father, Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made
my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me. for
there is none in You."

Love

IA56

21st November 2015, 06:55 AM

LESSON 236

"I rule my mind, which I alone must rule."

I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am its
king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think,
and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given me to serve
whatever purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I
give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. I thus direct
my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I see it free to do the Will
of God.

"Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to
every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offet it to You.
Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me."

Love

IA56

22nd November 2015, 07:21 AM

LESSON 237

"Now would I be as God created me."

Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and
allow the light in me to shine upon the World throughout the day. I
bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my
Father speaks to me. And I behold the world that Christ would have
me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my
FatherÂ´s call to me.

"Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice
for God today. Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your
Son, and my true Self as well. Amen."

Love

IA56

23rd November 2015, 06:59 AM

LESSON 238

"On my decision all salvation rests."

"Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy.
You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your
SonÂ´s salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be
beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well,
that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who
still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self."

And so, again today, we pause to think how much our Father loves
us. And how dear His Son, created by His Love, remains to Him
Whose Love is made complete in him.

Love

IA56

24th November 2015, 06:27 AM

LESSON 239

"The glory of my Father is my own."

Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false
humility. Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us.
Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trance of sin
and guilt? And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves
His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He
created him?

"We thank you, Father, for the light that shines forever in us.
And we honor it, because You share it with us. We are one,united
in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and
ourselves."

Love

IA56

25th November 2015, 06:58 AM

LESSON 240

"Fear is not justified in any form."

Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you
could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible.
Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in
which it may appear. In witnesses but to your own illusions of
yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are the Sons of God.
There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

"How foolish are our fears! Would You allow Your Son to suffer?
Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. Let us
forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness,
and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well."

Love

IA56

26th November 2015, 06:53 AM

WHAT IS THE WORLD?

The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left
its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth
is cherished. When the thought of separation has been changed to one
of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quiet another light; and
one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all
its errors vanish. Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as
well.
The world was made as an attack on God. Its symbolizes fear. And
what is fear execpt loveÂ´s absence? Thus the world was meant to be a
Place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart
from Him. Here was perception born, for knowledge could not cause
such insane thoughts. But eyes deceive, and ears hear falsely. Now
mistakes become quite possible, for certainty has gone.
The mechanisms of illusion have been born instead. And now they
go to find what has been given them to seek. Their aim is to fulfill the
purpose which the World was made to witness and make real.They
see in its illusions but a solid base where truth exists, upheld apart
from lies. Yet Everything that they report is but illusion which is kept
apart from truth.
As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected.
Sounds become the call of God, and all perception can be given a new
purpose by the One Whom God appointed. Savior to the world.
Follow His Light, and see the World as He beholds it. Hear His Voice
alone in all that speaks to you. And let Him give you peace and
certainty, which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved
for you in Him.
Let us not rest content until the world has joined our changed
perception. Let us not be satisfied until forgiveness has been made
complete. And let us not attempt to change our function. We must
save the world. For we who made it must behold it through the Eyes
of Christ, that what was made to die can be restored to everlasting
life.

LESSON 241

"This holy instant is salvation come."

What joy there is today! It is a time of special celebration. For
today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is
set. The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. The
glory of salvation Dawns today upon a World set free. This is the time
of hope for countless millions. They will be united now, as you
forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.

"We have forgiven one Another now, and so we come at last to
You again. Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and
his home. How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to
remember that we all are one."

Love

IA56

27th November 2015, 08:09 AM

LESSON 242

"This day is GodÂ´s. It is my gift to Him."

I will not lead my Life alone today. I do not understand the world,
and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is
One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no
choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him,
for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the
way to God.

"And so we give today to you. We come with wholly open minds.
We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us
what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and
our wants. And You will give us Everything we need in helping us to
find the way to You."

Love

IA56

28th November 2015, 07:25 AM

LESSON 243

"Today I will judge nothing that occurs."

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already
know what must remain behyond my present grasp. I will not think I
understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all
that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved
of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I
look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

"Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its
parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part
contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one."

Love

IA56

29th November 2015, 08:52 PM

LESSON 244

"I am in danger nowhere in the world."

"Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with
him. He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his
safety and Your Love, for they are one. How can he fear or doubt or
fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience
unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the
safety of Your Fatherly embrance?"

And there we are in truth. No storms can come into the hallowed
haven of our home. In God we are secure. For what can come to
threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of
Him?

Love

IA56

30th November 2015, 08:22 AM

LESSON 245

"Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe."

"Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go. Your peace goes
there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the
desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who
suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and
happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your Peace
with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may
come to recognize my Self."

And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that
we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for god, Who
speaks to us as we relete His Word; Whose Love we recognize
because we share the Word that He has given unto us.

Love

IA56

1st December 2015, 05:40 AM

LESSON 246

"To love my Father is to love His Son."

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in
my heart. Let me not try to hurt GodÂ´s Son, and think that I can know
his Father or my Self. Le me not fail to recognize myself, and still
believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind
conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I
return to Him.

"I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my
Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I
would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only
that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen."

Love

IA56

2nd December 2015, 08:04 AM

LESSON 247

"Without forgiveness I will still be blind."

Sin is the symbol of attack. Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer.
For forgiveness is the only means whereby ChristÂ´s vision comes to
me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I
am healed completely. Brother, come and let me look on you. Your
loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessness is mine. You stand
forgiven, and I stand with you.

"So would I look on everyone today. My Brothers are Your Sons.
Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of
You, and my own Self as well. Today I honor You through them,
and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self."

Love

IA56

3rd December 2015, 07:24 AM

LESSON 248

"Whatever suffers is not part of me."

I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning
falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not
myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was
never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. Now
I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God.
Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.

"Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your
Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love
remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one."

Love

IA56

4th December 2015, 07:12 AM

LESSON 249

"Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss."

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss
becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and
madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss
can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abudance,
charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly
is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which
the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

"Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed
them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with
thoughts of violance and death. Now would we rest again in You, as
You created us."

Love

IA56

5th December 2015, 07:33 AM

LESSON 250

"Let me not see myself as limited."

Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory. Let
me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength
diminished and reduced to frailtyt; nor perceive the lack in him with
which I would attack his sovereighnty.

"He is Your Son, my Father. And today I would behold his
gentleness instead of my illusions. He is what I am, and as I see him
so I see myself. Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last
identify with him."

Love

IA56

6th December 2015, 09:20 AM

WHAT IS SIN?

Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad,
and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it
sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin
gave the body eyes, for what it there the sinless would behold? What
need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear
or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to
know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing
else.
The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive
itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And
now the body serves a different aid for striving. What it seeks for
now is chosen by the aid the mind taken as replacement for the
goal of self-deception. Truth can be its aid as well as lies. The senses
then will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.
Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things
imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the
"proopf" that what has no reality is real. Sin "proves" GodÂ´s Son is
evil; timelessness must have an end;eternal life must die. And God
Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and
peace to be no more.
A madmanÂ´s dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to
terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of
God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with
but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on
him, and loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses
cannot change at all.
How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall
we not put away these sharp-edged childrenÂ´s toys? How soon will
you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin.
Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back?
How long o holy Son of God, how long?

LESSON 251

"I am in need of nothing but the truth."

I sought for many things, and found despair. Now do I seek but
one, for in the one is all I need, and only what I need. All that I
sought before I needed not, and did not even want. My only need I
did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth. In that all
needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and
dreams are gone. Now have I everything that I could need. Now
have I Everything that I could want. And now at last I find myself at
peace.

"And for that peace, our Father, we give thanks. What we denied
ourselves You have restored, and only that is what we really want."

Love

IA56

7th December 2015, 08:49 AM

LESSON 252

"The Son of God is my Identity."

My Self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now
conceive. Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than
is any light that I have ever looked upon. Its love is limitless, with an
intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.
Its strength comes not from bruning impulses which move the world,
but from the boundless Love of God Himself. How far beyond this
world my Self must be, and yet how near the me and close to God!

"Father, You know my true Identity. Reveal It now to me who am
Your Son, that I may waken to the truth in You, and know that
Heaven is restored to me."

Love

IA56

8th December 2015, 08:05 AM

LESSON 253

"My Self is ruler of the universe."

It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by
myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens
is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen.
This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations,
children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them
and Him Who has created me.

"You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself
and one with You, My Self, Which rules the universe, is but Your
Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to
Yours, that it may be extended to Itself."

Love

IA56

9th December 2015, 05:27 PM

LESSON 254

"Let every voice but GodÂ´s be still in me."

"Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I
would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I
have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And
truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today."

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When
such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then
we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them.
And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in
the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of
our will, as we have choosen to remember Him.

Love

we let

IA56

10th December 2015, 07:32 AM

LESSON 255

"This day I choose to spend in perfect peace."

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today.
And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. Let me this
day have faith in Him Who says I am GodÂ´s Son. And let the peace I
choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says.
GodÂ´s Son can have no cares, and must retain forever in the peace of
Heaven. In His name, I give today to finding what my Father wills
for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my FatherÂ´s Sons,
along with me.

"And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. Your Son
has not forgotten you. The peace You gave him still is in his mind,
and it is there I choose to spend today."

Love

IA56

11th December 2015, 09:23 AM

LESSON 256

"God is the only goal I have today."

The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other
way. If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would
there have been to find the way to where you are? Who would still be
uncertain? Who could be unsure of who he is? And who would yet
remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him
whom God created sinless? Here we can but dream. But we can
dream we have forgiven him whom all sin remains impossible,
and it is this we choose to dream today.God is our goal;
forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

"And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed
way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way
Your sacred Word has pointed out to us."

Love

IA56

12th December 2015, 07:23 AM

LESSON 257

"Let me remember what my purpose is."

If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and
thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals
and serve them well. Nor can he function without deep distress and
great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what
we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and acctions
meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

"Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let
us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus
our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You
will for us."

Love

IA56

13th December 2015, 09:12 AM

LESSON 258

"Let me remember that my goal is God."

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little
senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is
hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which
offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow GodÂ´s
grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the
world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We
have no aim but to remember Him.

"Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have
no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What
could we seek but our Identity?

Love

IA56

14th December 2015, 05:59 AM

LESSON 259

"Let me remember that there is no sin."

Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem
unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the
strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin
engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of
guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin
could be the source of fear obscuring GodÂ´s creation; giving love
the attributes of fear and of attack?

"Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of
love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no
opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything
that is remains with You, and You with it."

Love

IA56

15th December 2015, 06:02 AM

LESSON 260

"Let me remember God created me."

"Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought
I did, Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining
part of What created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today.
Let me remember You created me. Let me rememeber my Identity.
And let my sinlessness arise again before ChristÂ´s vision, through
which I would look upon my brothers and myself today."

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true
Identity at last. Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know
no sin. And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to
Him.

Love

IA56

16th December 2015, 05:32 AM

WHAT IS THE BODY?

The body is a fence the Son of God has imagines he has built, to
separate parts of his Self from other parts. It is within this fence he
thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles. For within this fence
he thinks that he is safe from love. Identifying with his safety, he
regards himself as what his safety is. How else could he be certain he
remains within the body, keeping love outside?
The body will not stay. Yet this he sees as double safety. For the
Son of GodÂ´s impermanence is "proof" his fences work, and do the
task his mind assings to them. For if his oneness still remained
untoched, who could attack and who could be attacked? Who could
be victor? Who could be his prey? Who could be victim? Who the
murderer? And if he did not die, what "proof" is there that GodÂ´s
eternal Son can be destroyed?
The body is a dream. Like other dreams it sometimes seems to
picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every
dream is born. For only love creates in truth, and truth can never
fear. Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it.
But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing
what we think that it is for.
The body is the means by which GodÂ´s Son returns to santiy.
Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the
goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of
God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk
along the road with him. Now is the body holy. Now it serves to heal
the mind that it was made to kill.
You will identify with what you think will make you safe.
Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your
safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not
exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and
you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self.

LESSON 261

"God is my refuge and security."

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security, I will behold
myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the
citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. Let me today seek not
security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous
attack. I live in God. In Him I find my refuge and my strength. In Him
is my Identity. In Him is everlasting peace. And only there will I
remember Who I really am.

"Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You
today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son Whom You
created as my Self."

Love

IA56

17th December 2015, 04:16 AM

LESSON 262

"Let me perceive no differences today."

"Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon
today. He is Your one Creation. Why should I perceive a thousand
forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand
names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name,
for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father,
nor a stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are
part of You Who are our Source, eternally United in Your Love;
eternally the holy Son of God."

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about
ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is
peace, and nowhere else can Peace be sought and found.

Love

IA56

18th December 2015, 06:02 AM

LESSON 263

"My vision sees all things as pure."

"Father, Your Mind created all that is. Your Spirit entered into it,
Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as
if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful
images. A madmanÂ´s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of
all the loveliness with which You bless creation; all its purity, its joy,
and its eternal, quiet home in You."

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on
all we see though holy vision and eyes of Christ. Let all
appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence,
and walk together to our FatherÂ´s house as brothers and the holy Sons
of God.

Love

IA56

19th December 2015, 05:57 AM

LESSON 264

"I am surrounded by the Love of God."

"Father, You stand before me and behind, besides me, in the Place I
see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon,
the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You
time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what
surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love Itself. There is no
Source but This, and nothing is that does not share Its holiness; that
stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love Which holds
all things within Itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to
You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your
everlasting Love."

My brothers, join with me in this today. This is salvationÂ´s
prayer. Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

Love

IA56

20th December 2015, 06:20 AM

LESSON 265

"CreationÂ´s gentleness is all I see."

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it
and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And now
deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of
in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness
with which Creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appeareance
of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is
reflected there is in GodÂ´s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts.
Yet is my mind at one with GodÂ´s. And so I can perceive creationÂ´s
gentleness.

"In guiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your
Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same,
and I will see creationÂ´s gentleness.

Love

IA56

21st December 2015, 07:46 AM

LESSON 266

"My holy Self abides in you, GodÂ´s Son."

"Father, You gave all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my
counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are
Your reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my
Self. Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. Let not Your Son
forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his name is Yours."

This day we enter into paradise, calling upon GodÂ´s Name and on
our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy
Love of God. How many saviors God has given us! How can we lose
the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who Point to
Him, and given us the sight to look on them?

Love

IA56

22nd December 2015, 06:24 AM

LESSON 267

"My heart is beating in the place of God."

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls
to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in
every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the
purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save
the World is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath
infuses me with strength. I am a meassenger of God, directed by His
Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace
within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every
one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I amat home in Him.

"Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is
beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. It is there and only
there that I can be at home."

Love

IA56

23rd December 2015, 07:53 AM

LESSON 268

"Let all things be exactly as they are."

"Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let
me not attempt to interfere with Your Creation, and distort it into
sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity,
and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to
recognize my Self as You created me. In Love was I created, and in
Love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things
be exactly as they are?"

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to
lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss.
Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.

Love

IA56

24th December 2015, 07:30 AM

LESSON 269

"My sight goes forth to look upon ChristÂ´s face."

"I ask Your blessing on my sight today. It is the means which You
have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look
beyond them. It is given me to find a new perception through the
Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception
and return to truth. I ask for the illusion which trancends all those I
made. Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone
shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon
belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son."

Today our sight is blessed indeed. We share one vision, as we look
upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. We are one because of Him
Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity.

Love

IA56

25th December 2015, 08:11 AM

LESSON 270

"I will not use the bodyÂ´s eyes today."

"Father, ChristÂ´s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to
translate all that the bodyÂ´s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven
world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more
will I preceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies
Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to
truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time
which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his
will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every
thought except Your Own is gone."

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace
will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His
sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom
God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one.

Love

IA56

26th December 2015, 07:45 AM

WHAT IS CHRIST?

Christ is GodÂ´s Son as He created him. He is the Self we share,
uniting us with one another,and with God as well. He is the Thought
Which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left
His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He
abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that
separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever
will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is
the part in which GodÂ´s Answer lies; where all decisions are already
made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the
bodyÂ´s Eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means
for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father,
knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ
remain at Peace within the heaven of your holy mind. This is the only
part off you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these
dreams be given unto Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams,
and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will
Exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of
dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has
come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things
separate, for what remains to see except ChristÂ´s face?
And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol
that the time for Learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement
has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find ChristÂ´s face
and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we
have no need of Learning or perception or of time, or anything except
the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

LESSON 271

"ChristÂ´s is the vision I will use today."

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to
look upon, the sounds I wnat to hear, the witness to what I want to
be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would
have me see, to listen to GodÂ´s Voice, and seek the wintnesses to what
is true in GodÂ´s Creation. In ChristÂ´s sight, the world and GodÂ´s
Creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears.
His kindly sight redeems the World from death, for nothing that He
looks on but must live, rememering the Father and the Son; Creator
and Creation unified.

"Father, ChristÂ´s vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites
Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose to be what I
would look upon today."

Love

IA56

27th December 2015, 08:06 AM

LESSON 272

"How can illusions satisfy GodÂ´s Son?"

"Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by
Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions brings me
happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will
accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your
Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. GodÂ´s Son must be
as You created him."

Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temeptation call to us to
stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the
Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be
chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.

Love

IA56

28th December 2015, 05:45 AM

LESSON 273

"The stillness of the peace of God is mine."

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility. If
this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to
learn how such a day can be achieved. If we give way to a
disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace. We
need but tell our minds, with certainty. "The stillness of peace of
God is mine," and nothing can intrude upon the peace that God
Himself has given to His Son.

"Father, Your peace is mine. What need have I to learn that
anything can rob me of what You would have me keep? I cannot lose
Your gifts to me. And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still,
in quietness and in my own eternal love for You."

Love

IA56

29th December 2015, 06:53 AM

LESSON 274

"Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear."

"Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and
give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his
brother and his Friend. Through this I am redeemed. Through this as
well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all
darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him."

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father.
Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day
is given unto Love.

Love

IA56

30th December 2015, 07:00 AM

LESSON 275

"GodÂ´s healing Voice protects all things today."

Let us today attend the Voice of God, Which speaks an ancient
lesson, no more true today than any other day. Yet has this day been
chosen, as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and
understand. Join me in hearing. For the Voice for God tells us of
things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. It is in this that
all things are protected. And in this the healing of the Voice for God is
found.

"Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all
things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will
tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to
say to him, what thoughts to think, what Words to give the world.
The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all
things through me."

Love

IA56

31st December 2015, 07:44 AM

LESSON 276

"The Word of God is given me to speak."

What is the Word of God? "My Son is pure and holy as Myself."
And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus
was he created. This the Word His Son did not create with Him,
because in this His Son was born. Let us accept His Fatherhood, and
all is given us. Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our
Self, to be unsure of who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what
purpose we have come. And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him
Who gave His Word to us in our Creation, to remember Him and so
recall our Self.

"Father, Your Word is mine. And it is this that I would speek to all
my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved
and blessed and saved by You."

Love

IA56

1st January 2016, 08:49 AM

LESSON 277

"Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made."

"Your Son is free, my Father. Let me not imagine I have bound him
with the laws I made to rule the body. He is not subject to any laws I
made by which I try to make the body more secure. He is not changed
by what is changeable. He is not slave to any laws of time. He is as
You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love."

Let us not worship idols, nor believe in any law idoltary would
make to hide the freedom of the Son of God. He is not bound except
by his beliefs. Yet what he is, is far beyond his faith in slavery or
freedom. He is free because he is his FatherÂ´s Son. And he cannot be
bound unless GodÂ´s truth can lie, and God can will that He deceive
Himself.

Love

IA56

2nd January 2016, 06:57 AM

LESSOM 278

"If I am bound, my Father is not free."

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all
things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with
me. And this do I believe when I maintain the laws the world obeys
must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and
cannot be escaped. If I am bound in any way, I do not know my
Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and
what is bound is not a part of truth.

"Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have made many foolish
thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of
fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to
You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only
love is sure."

Love

IA56

3rd January 2016, 09:17 AM

LESSON 279

"CreationÂ´s freedom promises my own."

The end of dreams is promised me, because GodÂ´s Son is not
abandoned by His Love. Only in dreams is there a time when he
appears to be in prision, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all.
Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their
place. And now is freedom his already. Should I wait in chains which
have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom
now!

"I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My
Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You
withhold the gifts You gave to me?"

Love

IA56

4th January 2016, 06:46 AM

LESSON 280

"What limits can I lay upon GodÂ´s Son?"

Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for
him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its
FatherÂ´s Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of
God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose
Father willed that be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in
love?

"Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the
way to you. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You
created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is
Yours belongs to me as well."

Love

IA56

5th January 2016, 08:03 AM

WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He
must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to
knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift
to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He
provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the
light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside.
And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made
possible perceptionÂ´s transquil end.
The goal the Holy SpiritÂ´s teaching sets is just this end of dreams.
For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to
those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished, learning has
achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit
guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go
beyond itself, to be replaced by the Eternal Truth.
If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you
recongize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in
vain, nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and
dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made,
by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. And if you
offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to
restore your mind to where it truly is at home.
From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy
Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be
restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your
dreams remain to terrify you. And the memory of all your FatherÂ´s
Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.
Accept you FatherÂ´s gift. It is a call from Love to Love, that It be
but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of
Heaven is restored to GodÂ´s beloved Son. Would you refuse to take
the function of completing God, when all He wills is the you be
complete?

Love

IA56

6th January 2016, 08:06 AM

LESSON 281

"I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts."

"Father, Your Son is perfect. When I think that I am hurt in any
way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You
created me. Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. If ever I am
sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You Think, and put my little
meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and
where they are. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. The
Thoughts I think with You can only bless. The Thoughts I think with
You alone are true."

I will not hurt myself today. For I am far beyond all pain. My
Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. And I would not
attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love.

Love

IA56

7th January 2016, 07:37 AM

LESSON 282

"I will not be afraid of love today."

If I could realize but this today, salvation would be reached for all
the world. This the decision not to be insane, and to accept myself as
God Himself, my Father and my Source, created me. This the
determination not to be asleep in dreams of death, while truth
remains forever living in the joy of love. And this the choice to
recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who
remains my one Identity.

"Father, Your Name is Love and so is mine. Such is the truth. And
can the truth be changed by merely giving it Another name? The name
of fear is simply a mistake. Let me not be afraid of truth today."

Love

IA56

8th January 2016, 07:35 AM

LESSON 283

"My true Identity abides in You."

"Father, I made an image of myself, and it is this I call the Son of
God. Yet is creation as it always was, for Your Creation is
unchangeable. Let me not worship idols. I am he my Father loves. My
holiness remains the light of Heaven and the Love of God. Is not what
is beloved of You secure? Is not the light of Heaven infinite? Is not
Your Son my true Identity, when You created everything that is?"

Now are we one in shared Identity, with God our Father as our
only Source, and everything created part of us. And so we offer
blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with all the world, which our
forgiveness has made one with us.

Love

newfreedom

8th January 2016, 08:20 AM

IA56

9th January 2016, 05:33 AM

Hi IA,

i was able to appreciate today's lesson you provided us with.

i was able to 'read' it. i read it out loud, & it rolled off the tongue quite eloquently.

It felt good to read. it felt Homely :grouphug::heart:

Thankyou IA56 :toast:x x

Hi newfereedom,

I am happy to hear it helped you ;.)

Love
ia

IA56

9th January 2016, 05:41 AM

LESSON 284

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There
is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing
but a dream. This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated
many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many
reservations. Then to be considered seriously more and more, and
finally accepted as the truth. I can elect to change all thoughts that
hurt. And I would go beyond these words today, and past all
reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

"Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must
be impossible. Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the
joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth."

Love

IA56

10th January 2016, 09:10 AM

LESSON 285

"My holiness shines bright and clear today."

Today, I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to
come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be
answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. And I will
ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. For what
would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering
fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs
from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

"Father, my holiness is Yours. Let me rejoice in it, and through
forgiveness be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him.
My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter
Holiness Itself?"

Love

IA56

11th January 2016, 06:25 AM

LESSON 286

"The hush of Heaven holds my heart today."

"Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place!
This is the day that has been choosen as the time in which I come to
understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything. In You
is every choise already made. In You has every conflict been
resolved. In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your
peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is
Heaven, and Your Love is mine."

The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the
way, andd travelled far along it to a wholly certain goal. Today we
will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust
in Him, and in our Self, Who still is one with Him.

Love

IA56

12th January 2016, 07:31 AM

LESSON 287

"You are my goal, my Father. Only You."

Where would I go but Heaven? What could be a substitute for
happiness? What gÃ♥ft could I prefer before the peace of God? What
treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my
Identity? And would I rather live with fear than love?

"You are my goal, my Father. What but You could I desire to have?
What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? And
what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of
dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? You are my only goal.
Your Son would be as You created him. What way but this could I
expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity?"

Love

IA56

13th January 2016, 07:18 AM

LESSON 288

"Let me forget my brotherÂ´s past today."

"This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my
goal. I cannot come to you without my brother. And to know my
Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My
brotherÂ´s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in
the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let
me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to
You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have
given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so
remember that It is my own."

Forgive me, then, today. And you will know you have forgiven me
if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less
holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.

Love

IA56

14th January 2016, 07:58 AM

LESSON 289

"The past is over. It can touch me not."

Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my
sight. For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there.
How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past
was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now.
It has no past. For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is
forgiven it is gone.

"Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have
offered me. Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has
left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I
made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer
for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his
dreams and all his pain?"

Love

IA56

15th January 2016, 06:35 AM

LESSON 290

"My present happiness is all I see."

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I
see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have ChristÂ´s
vision come to me this very day. What I perceive without GodÂ´s Own
Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold.
Yet I would not allow my mind to be decieved by the belief the dream
I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present
happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

"With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me
up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear
me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure
that I will see my happiness today."

Love

IA56

16th January 2016, 07:29 AM

WHAT IS THE REAL WORLD?

The real World is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers.
Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is
seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your
mind. The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes
forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible,
and witnesses to fear can not be found.
The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought
reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and
sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a
world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace.
Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard,
for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are
gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has
forgiven itself.
What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and
murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy?
What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there
that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at
Peace within itself. No danger lurks iin anything it sees, for it is kind,
and only kindness does it look upon.
The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over,
and GodÂ´s Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure
reflection of his FatherÂ´s love; the certain promise that he is
redeemed. The real world signifies gthe end of time, for its perception
make time purposeless.
The Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His
purpose. Now He waits but that one instant more for God to take His
final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it
goes, and leaving but the truth to be itself. That instant is our goal,
for it contains the memory of God. And as we look upon a world
forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home,
reminding us of our Identity Which our forgiveness has restored to us.

LESSON 291

"This is a day of stillness and of peace."

ChristÂ´s vision looks through me today. His sight shows me all
things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world.
And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world
as well. What loveliness we look upon today! What holiness we see
surrounding us! And it is given us to recognize it is a holiness in which
we share; it is the Holiness of God Himself.

"This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer
me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I
do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father,
guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my
forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me."

Love

IA56

17th January 2016, 07:01 AM

LESSON 292

"This is a day of stillness and of Peace."

ChristÂ´s vision looks through me today. His sight shows me all
things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world.
And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world
as well. What loveliness we look upon today! What holiness we see
surrounding us! And it is given us to recongize it is a holiness in which
we share; it is the Holiness of God Himself.

"This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer
me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I
do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father,
guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my
forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me."

Love

IA56

18th January 2016, 07:55 AM

LESSON 293

"All fear is past and only love is here."

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone
with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here
forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe
and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing
me distorted forms of fear? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its
effect apparent. All the world shines in reflection of its holy light,
and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

"Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let
my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing
underneath the sound of fear. There is a real world which the
present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this
world before my eyes today."

Love

IA56

19th January 2016, 06:10 AM

LESSON 294

"My body is a wholly neutral thing."

I am a Son of God. And can I be another thing as well? Did God
create the mortal and corruptible? What use has GodÂ´s beloved Son
for what must die? And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for
thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love
bestowed upon it. Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. And
afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. It is not sick nor old
nor hurt. It is but functionless, uneeded and cast off. Let me not see
it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep
its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater
good.

"My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. And what is not created
cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. Le me, then, use
this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we
made."

Love

IA56

20th January 2016, 09:03 AM

LESSON 295

"The Holy Spirit looks through me today."

Christ asks that He may use my eyes today, and thus redeem the
world. He asks this gift that He may offer peace of mind to me, and
take away all terror and all pain. And as they are removed from me,
the dreams that seemed to settle on the world are gone. Redemption
must be one. As I am saved, the world is saved with me. For all of us
must be redeemed together. Fear appears in many different forms,
but love is one.

"My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be
given me. Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow
the Holy SpiritÂ´s Love to bless all things which I may look upon,
and His forgiving Love may rest on me."

Love

IA56

21st January 2016, 08:43 AM

LESSON 296

"The Holy Spirit speaks through me today."

"The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may
listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. I am
resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but
Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only
Yours are true. I would be savior to the world I made. For having
damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the
Word Your holy Voice will speak to me today."

We reach today what we would learn, and that alone. And so our
learning goal becomes an unconflicted one, and possible of easy
reach and quick accomplishment. How gladly does the Holy Spirit
come to rescue us from hell, when we allow His teaching to persuade
the World, through us, to seek and find the easy path to God.

Love
ia

IA56

22nd January 2016, 05:36 AM

LESSON 297

"Forgiveness is the only gift I give."

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want.
And everything I give I give myself. This is salvationÂ´s simple
formula. And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the
way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved
as I accept Atonement for myself.

"Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final
outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set
already, and accomplished by Your grace. Thanks be to You for
Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity."

Love

IA56

23rd January 2016, 07:56 AM

LESSON 298

"I love You, Father, and I love Your Son."

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And
thus am I restored to my Reality at last. All that intruded on my holy
sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless
journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what
God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure
that I go through fear to meet my Love.

"Fear, I come to You today, because I would not fallow any
way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am
greatful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from
everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His
holy Son."

Love

IA56

24th January 2016, 09:04 AM

LESSON 299

"Eternal holiness abides in me."

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know.
Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as
His. Our Will, together, understands it. And our Will, together,
knows that it is so.

"Father, my holiness is not of me. It is not mine to be destroyed
by sin. It is not mine to suffer from attack. Illusions can obscure it,
but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. It stands forever
perfect and untouched. In it are all things healed, for they remains as
You created them. And I can know my holiness. For Holiness Itself
created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that
You be known."

Love

IA56

25th January 2016, 06:27 AM

LESSON 300

"Only an instant does this World endure."

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow
are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before
they are possessed, or even grasped. Yet this is also the idea that lets
no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a
passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. And it is this serenity we
seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

"We seek Your holy world today. For we, Your loving Sons, have
lost our way a while. But we have listened to Your Voice, and
learned exactly whqt to do to be restored to Heaven and our true
Identity. And we give thanks today the World endures but for an
instant. We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity."

Love

IA56

26th January 2016, 07:22 AM

WHAT IS THE SECOND COMMING?

ChristÂ´s Second Comming, which is sure as God, is merely the
correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the
condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is
forever and forever true. It is the invitation to GodÂ´s Word to take
illusionÂ´s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things
without exception and without reserve.
It is the all-inclusive nature of ChristÂ´s Second Coming that permits
it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent,
which encompasses all living things with you. There is no end to the
release the Second Coming brings, as GodÂ´s creation must be
limitless. Forgiveness lights the Second ComingÂ´s way, because it
shines on Everythings as one. And thus is oneness recongized at last.
The Second Coming ends the lessons that the Holy Spirit
teaches, making way for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends in
one last summary that will extend beyond itself, and reaches up to
God. The Second Coming is the time in which all minds are given to
the hands of Christ, to be returned to spirit in the name of true
creation and the Will of God.
The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can
not affect. For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or
who is present now, is equally released from what he made. In this
equality is Christ restored as Identity, in Which the Sons of God
acknowledge that they all are one. And God the Father smiles upon
His Son, His one Creation and His only joy.
Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with
that. It needs your Eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your
voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we
can do GodÂ´s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son
of God is one in us, and we can reach our FatherÂ´s Love through Him.

LESSON 301

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears."

"Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or
feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home
because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me
today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has
released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine.
And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone.
Father, I will not judge Your World today."

GodÂ´s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy
to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because
we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was
false, and we will look upon GodÂ´s world today.

Love

IA56

27th January 2016, 07:28 AM

LESSON 302

"Where darkness was i look upon the light."

"Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us,
as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we
suffered. But we had forgoten the Son whom You created. Now we see
that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look
upon. ChristÂ´s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must
disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world
today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but
reflects my own."

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing
us the way. He fails in nothing. He the end we seek, and He the means
by which we go to Him.

Love

IA56

28th January 2016, 07:10 AM

LESSON 303

"The holy Christ is born in me today."

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all GodÂ´s holy
Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while HeavenÂ´s Son is
born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am
accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home.
And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that
show His FatherÂ´s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He
is born again in me today.

"Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the
evil self I made. He is the Self That You have given me. He is but
what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things,
He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ That can be
crucified. Self in Your Arms let me recieve Your Son."

Love

IA56

29th January 2016, 07:14 AM

LESSON 304

"Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ."

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. Nor can
I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I
use. Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state
of mind, reflected outward. I would bless the world by looking on it
through the eyes of Christ. And I will look upon the certain signs that
all my sins have been forgiven me.

"You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness.
Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the World. It is Your
gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may
find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created
him."

Love

IA56

30th January 2016, 05:58 AM

LESSON 305

"There is a peace that Christ bestows on us."

Who uses but ChristÂ´s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet,
undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no
counterpart. Comparrisons are still before this peace. And all the
world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it
to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and
healed the world by giving it ChristÂ´s peace.

"Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will
that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it
not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves"

Love

IA56

31st January 2016, 07:54 AM

LESSON 306

"The gift of Christ is all I seek today."

What but ChristÂ´s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a
day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory
returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go
past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I
am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of
loving kindness and the peace of God.

"And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never
went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and
thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and
minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering
sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his."

Love

IA56

1st February 2016, 07:59 AM

LESSON 307

"Conflicting wishes cannot be my will."

"Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will
for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is
senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me
happiness, and only Your exists. If I would have what only You
can give. I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace
where conflict is impossible. Your Son is one with You in being and
in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You
created me."

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict
cannot come, because we join our holy will with GodÂ´s, in
recognition that they are the same.

Love

IA56

2nd February 2016, 05:25 AM

LESSON 308

"This instant is the only time there is."

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I
elect to reach past time to timelessness. I must change my perception
of wht time is for. TimeÂ´s purpose cannot be to keep the past and
future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is
now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth
of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His
present blessing to the world, restoring it to timlessness and love.
And love is ever-present, here and now.

"Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This
instant is the time You have appointed for Your SonÂ´s release, and
for salvation of the world in him."

Love

IA56

3rd February 2016, 07:27 AM

LESSON 309

"I will not fear to look within today."

Within me is Eternal Innocence, because it is GodÂ´s Will that it be
there forever and forever. I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His
Own, can will no change in this. For to deny my FatherÂ´s Will is to
deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it,
and as it is. I fear to look within because I Think I made Another will
that is not true, and made it real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the
holiness of God. Within me is the memory of Him.

"The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle
dreams of sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy
altar of my Self, and there I find my true Identity."

Love

IA56

4th February 2016, 07:04 AM

LESSON 310

"In fearlessness and love I spend today."

"This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have
chosen all my days should be. And what I will expereince is not of
time at all. The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it
comes from Heaven to Your Son. This day will be Yours sweet
reminder to remember You. Your gracious calling to Your holy
Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I
be set free today."

We spend this day together, you and I. And all the world joins with
us in our song of thankfulnesss and joy to Him Who gave salvation to
us, and Who set us free. We are restored to peace and holiness. There
is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts.

Love

IA56

5th February 2016, 07:14 AM

WHAT IS THE LAST JUDGMENT?

ChristÂ´s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: To hear
the Voice of God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is
true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception
ends. At fist you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected
from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception
gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and
its mission done.
The Final Judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it
sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposless.
Without a cause, and now without a function in ChristÂ´s sight, it merely
slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well.
And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it.
Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the
Son of God is limitless.
You who believed that GodÂ´s Last Judgment would condemn the
world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: GodÂ´s Judgment
is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing
you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. The fear
GodÂ´s saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering,
return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own
Identity.
GodÂ´s Final Judgment is as merciful as every step in His appointed
plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace
He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all
sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of
pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this.
Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad
acceptance, which will set it free.
This is GodÂ´s Final Judgment: "You are still My Holy Son, forever
innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your
Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore
awaken and return to Me. I am Your Father and you are My Son."

LESSON 311

"I judge all things as I would have them be."

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It
separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a
thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It
judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and
therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to
Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve us of the agony of
all the judgment we have made against ourselves, and re-establish
peace of mind by giving us GodÂ´s Judgment of His Son.

"Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment
of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge.
And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your
Son must be."

Love

IA56

6th February 2016, 06:00 AM

LESSON 312

"I see all things as I would have them be."

Perception follows judgmen. Having judged, we therefore see
what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what
we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and
fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore,
must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes
the Holy SpiritÂ´s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to
look upon what Christ would have him see, and share ChristÂ´s Love
for what he looks upon.

"I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated
world, set free from all the judgment I have made. Father, this is
Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well."

Love

IA56

7th February 2016, 07:39 AM

LESSON 313

"Now let a new perception come to me."

"Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so
that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will
come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of
Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven,
for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true
perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and
look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely
undefiled upon the altar of Your holy Son, the Self with Which I
would identify."

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How
beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join
with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our
vision it becomes as holy as the light in us.

Love

IA56

8th February 2016, 04:09 AM

LESSON 314

"I seek a future different from the past."

From new perception of the world there comes a future very
different from the past. The future now is recongized as but extention
of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadow on it, so that fear
has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects.
Death will not claim the future now, for Life is now its goal, and all the
needed means are happily provided. Who can grieve or suffer when
the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a
quiet future filled with joy.

"Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the
present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving
behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present
promises, and guide the future in their holy light."

Love

IA56

9th February 2016, 03:22 AM

LESSON 315

"All gifts my brothers give belong to me."

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing
moment. I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far
beyond all things of which I can conceive. A brother smiles upon
another, an my heart is gladdened. Someone speaks a word of
gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its
own. And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior,
pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he
learnes is surely mine as well.

"I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and
every day from every Son of God. My brothers are unlimited in all
their gifts to me. Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that
gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory."

Love

IA56

10th February 2016, 04:34 AM

LESSON 316

"All gifts I give my brother are my own."

As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs
to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on
the holy mind my Father loves. His grace is given me in every gift a
brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well.
My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not
one gift is lost, and only more are added. Let me come to where my
treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home,
among the gifts that God has given me.

"Father, I would accept Your gifts today. I do not recongize them.
Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I
can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I
want."

Love

IA56

11th February 2016, 06:00 AM

LESSON 317

"I follow in the way appointed me."

I have a special place of to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits
until I take this part as what I choose to do. I make this choice. I
am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and
gladly go the way my FatherÂ´s plan appointed me to go, then will I
recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and
already mine as well.

"Father, Your way is what I choose today. When it would lead me
do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your
way is certain, and the end secure.The memory of You awaits me
there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have
promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had
wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms."

Love

IA56

12th February 2016, 01:52 AM

LESSON 318

"In me salvationÂ´s means and end are one."

In me, GodÂ´s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of HeavenÂ´s plan to
save the world. What could conflict, when all the parts have but one
purpose and one aim? How could there be a single part that stands
alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? I am the means
by which GodÂ´s Son is saved, because salvationÂ´s purpose is to find
the sinlessness that God has placed in me, I was created as the thing I
seek. I am the goal the World is searsing for. I am GodÂ´s Son, His one
eternal Love. I am salvationÂ´s means and end as well.

"Let today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your
request that I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is
thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You."

Love

IA56

13th February 2016, 04:16 AM

LESSON 319

"I came for the salvation of the world."

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and
only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is
no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space
the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and
therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The
ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the
Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

"Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares
its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have
given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared
with You."

Love

IA56

14th February 2016, 08:59 AM

LESSON 320

"My Father gives all power unto me."

The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his
Peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation.
What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy
will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind,
and lays before it all the strength and love in Earth and Heaven. I am
he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power of my
FatherÂ´s Will abides.

"Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world
as well through me. There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power
has been given to Your Son."

Love

W

IA56

15th February 2016, 06:34 AM

WHAT IS CREATION?

Creation is the sum of all GodÂ´s Thoughts, in number infinite, and
everywhere without all limit. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.
There was no time when all that It created was not there. Nor will
there be a time when anything that It created suffers any loss. Forever
and forever are GodÂ´s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are,
unchanged though time and after time is done.
GodÂ´s Thoughts are given all the power that their own Creator has.
For He would add to Love by its extension. Thus His Son shares in
creation, and must therefore share in power to create. What God has
willed to be forever one will still be one when time is over; and will
not be changed throughout the course of time, remaining as it was
before the thought of time began.
Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for Creation is the truth.
Creation is the holy Son of God, for in Creation is His Will complete
in every aspect, making every part container of the Whole. Its
oneness is forever guaranteed inviolate; forever held within His holy
Will, beyond all possibility of harm, of separation, imperfection and
of any spot upon its sinlessness.
We are creation; we the Sons of God. We seem to be discrete, and
unaware of our eternal unity with Him. Yet back of all our doubts,
past all our fears, there still is certainty. For Love remains with all Its
Thoughts, Its sureness being theirs. GodÂ´s memory is in our holy
minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator.
Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let GodÂ´s
Will be done on Earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as
God created us.
Our Father calls to us. We hear His Voice, and we forgive Creation
in the Name of its Creator, Holiness Itself, Whose holiness His Own
creation shares; Whose holiness is still a part of us.

LESSON 321

"Father, my freedom is in You alone."

"I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is,
nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I
Heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more.
For I have neither made nor understood that way to find my freedom.
But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your
holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me, and the way to
You is opening and clear to me at last, Father, my freedom is in You
alone, Father, it is my will that I return."

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed alone with us.
How glad are we to find our freedom though the certain way our
Father has established. And how sure is all the worldÂ´s salvation,
when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.

Love

IA56

16th February 2016, 05:49 AM

LESSON 322

"I can give up but what was never real."

I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. And as illusions go I find the
gift illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in
readiness to give GodÂ´s ancient messages to me. His memory abides
in every gift that I receive of Him. And every dream serves only to
conceal the Self Which is GodÂ´s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the
Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.

"Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. And so
I cannot sacrifice execpt in dreams. As You created me. I can give up
nothing You gave me. What You did not give has no reality. What
loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into
my mind?"

Love

IA56

17th February 2016, 06:29 AM

LESSON 323

"I gladly make the `sacrifice`of fear."

"Here is the only `sacrifice`You ask Your beloved Son; You ask
him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety
and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his
awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal
joy. Such is the `sacrifice`You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the
only `cost`of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of
the world."

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth, - a debt that merely is the
letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely -
truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no
longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace
again, for fear has gone and only love remains.

Love

Timothy

18th February 2016, 02:27 AM

HI ia,

ACIM

IA56

18th February 2016, 07:20 AM

HI ia,

ACIM

Yes...

Love
ia

IA56

18th February 2016, 07:27 AM

LESSON 324

"I merely follow, for I would not lead."

"Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to
me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step
is my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to
wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always
call me back, and guide my feet aright. My Brothers all can follow in
the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You
direct me and would have me go."

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and
we cannot stray except an instant from His loving hand. We walk
together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending
sure, and guarantees a safe returning home.

Love

IA56

19th February 2016, 07:29 AM

LESSON 325

"All things I Think I see reflect ideas."

This is salvationÂ´s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my
mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind
makes up an image of the things the mind desires, judges valuable, and
therefore seeks to find. The images are then projected outward,
looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as oneÂ´s own. From
insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a
world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world
comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a
kindly home where he can rest a while Before he journeys on, and
help his Brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven
and to God.

"Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from
Yours but make up Dreams. Let me behold what only Your reflect,
for Yours and Yours alone establish truth."

Love

IA56

20th February 2016, 07:27 AM

LESSON 326

"I am forever an Effect of God."

"Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left
its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are
my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You
established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me,
because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and
Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of
God, and so I have the Power to create like You. And as it is in
Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know
Â¨that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your
Love, where Earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in
glory as the Son of God."

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and
then, forgiven, fade entirely into GodÂ´s holy Will.

Love

IA56

21st February 2016, 07:24 AM

LESSON 327

"I need but call and You will answer me."

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported
faith. For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me
Himself. Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and
faith in Him must surely come to me. This is the faith that will
endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to
Him. For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves
me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to
Him.

"Father, I thank You that Your promise will never fail in my
experience, if I but test them out. Let me attempt therefore to try
them, and to judge them not. Your Word is one with You. You give
Â¨the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding
Love is gained at last."

Love

IA56

22nd February 2016, 07:30 AM

LESSON 328

"I choose the second place to gain the first."

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive
are upside down until we listen to the Voice of God. It seems that we
will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our
independence from the rest of GodÂ´s creation is the way in which
salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss
and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any
second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since
our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recongnize our will.

"There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine
contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be
wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which
You, my Father, gave as part of me."

Love

IA56

23rd February 2016, 07:58 AM

LESSON 329

"I have already chosen what You will."

"Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its
laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet
what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am
I, and this will never change. As You are One, so am I one with You.
And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one
with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change,
and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe,
untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it
be so."

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source.
We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will
is shared by all of us. Through it we recognize that we are one.
Through it we find our way at last to God.

Love

IA56

24th February 2016, 07:45 AM

LESSON 330

"I will not hurt myself again today."

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why
should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why
should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His
Power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? The
mind that is made willing to accept GodÂ´s gifts has been restored to
spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God Ã¼nited
with its own. The Self Which God created cannot sin, and therefore
cannot suffer. Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus
escape forever from all things the dream of ferar appears to offer us.

"Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we
but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would
return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and
to be saved from what we thought we were."

Love

IA56

25th February 2016, 08:25 AM

WHAT IS THE EGO?

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 Eveywhere, 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 hatered 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 see 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 forÂ¨
faith in it is so immense that crusifixion 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 dweling place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely
one with Him.

LESSON 331

"There is no conflict, for my will is Yours."

"How foolish, Father, to beleive Your Son could cause himself to
suffer! Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a
certain way to his release? You love me, Father. You could never
leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. How
could I think that Love has left Itself? There is no will except the Will
of Love. Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours,
Conflicts is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; Life, eternal
truth. There is no opposition to Your Will. There is no conflict, for
my will is Yours."

Forgineness shows us that GodÂ´s Will is one, and that we share it.
Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we
may find the peace of God. Amen.

Love

IA56

26th February 2016, 07:50 AM

LESSON 332

"Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free."

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 takes its rightful place
within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chanins,
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 are holding freedom out to
us."

Love

IA56

27th February 2016, 07:22 AM

LESSON 333

"Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here."

Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied,
disquised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden
by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly
as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given
it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. For only then are
its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

"Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all
conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No
light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the
world. For this alone will never fail in anything being Your gift to
Your beloved Son."

Love

IA56

28th February 2016, 06:36 AM

LESSON 334

"Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives."

I will not wait Another day to find the treasures that my Father
offers me. Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while
they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false preceptions. Let
me not accept such meager gifts again today. GodÂ´s Voice is offering
the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him. This is
my choice today. And so I go to find the treasures God has given
me.

"I seek but the eternal. For Your Son can be content with nothing
less than this. What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering
to his bewildered mind mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty
and bring him peace? Today I would behold my brother sinless. This
Your Will for me, for so will I behold my sinlessness."

Love

IA56

29th February 2016, 06:46 AM

LESSON 335

I choose to see my brotherÂ´s sinlessness."

Forgiveness is a choice. I never see my brother as he is, for that is
far beyond perception. What I see in him is merely what I wish to
see,because it stands for what I want to be the truth. It is to this
alone I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by ourside
happenings.I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see,
and only this. My brotherÂ´s sinlessness shows me that I would look
upon my own. And I will see it, having choosen to behold my brother
in its holy light.

"What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my
brotherÂ´s sinlessness? His holiness reminds me that he was created
one with me, and like myself. In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I
find the memory of You as well."

Love

IA56

1st March 2016, 06:36 AM

LESSON 336

"Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined."

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perceptionÂ´s ending.
Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then
gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach.
For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory
that lies beyond them all. Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and
opens the hidden altar to the truth. Its lilies shine into the mind, and
call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought
without. For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this
the dwelling place of God Himself.

"In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my Dream of separation and
of sin. Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my
sinlessness is kept. Your Word remains unchanged within my mind.
Your Love is still abiding in my heart."

Love

IA56

2nd March 2016, 05:40 AM

LESSON 337

"My sinlessness protects me from all harm."

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting
love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance
from suffering. And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness
is given me. What must I do to know all this is mine? I must accept
Atonement for myself, and nothing more. God has already done all things
that need be done. And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need
but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to
feel GodÂ´s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves
His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

"You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am.
I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for
myself. Father, my Dream is ended now. Amen.

Love

IA56

3rd March 2016, 08:06 AM

LESSON 338

"I am affected only by my thoughts."

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. For in this
single thought is everyone released at last from fear. Now has he
learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him.
He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. His
thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him
alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear
thought for a happy thought of love. He crucified himself. Yet God
has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

"Your plan is sure, my Father, - only Yours. All other plans will
fail. and I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that
You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation.
Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. But the Thought You
gave me promised to lead me home, because it holds Your promise
to Your Son."

Love

IA56

4th March 2016, 07:59 AM

LESSON 339

"I will receive whatever I request."

No one desires pain. But he can think that pain is pleasure. No
one would avoid his happiness. But he can think that joy is painful,
threatening and dangerous. Everyone will recieve what he requests.
But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he
would attain. What can he then request that he would want when he
recieves it? He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him
suffering. Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and
only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without
confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

"Father, this is Your day. It is a day in which I would do nothing
by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only
what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me."

Love

Timothy

5th March 2016, 05:22 AM

..ia...i love that one...yes...yes. ty ;)

IA56

5th March 2016, 07:07 AM

LESSON 340

"I can be free of suffering today."

"Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain
it will bring. This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed.
His suffering is done. For he will hear Your Voice directing him to
find ChristÂ´s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all
suffering. Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world
but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for
Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along
with him today."

My father died yesterday 17.55.

Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and
thanks today. Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of
us but will be saved today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none
the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart
of Love

Love

Timothy

5th March 2016, 12:03 PM

..ia...I'm sorry for your loss. 555

IA56

5th March 2016, 02:19 PM

..ia...I'm sorry for your loss. 555

Thank you Tim.

Yes, father did get to leave the way he wished, he did leave at an instant, and his appearence was ...total peace, almost a smile on his lips.

Hi had said to mother in his youth, I will leave on a beautiful friday..and he did.

I did see his energy it was beautiful.

Do you know what 555 has for meaning??

Love
ia

Timothy

5th March 2016, 03:35 PM

Thank you Tim.

Yes, father did get to leave the way he wished, he did leave at an instant, and his appearence was ...total peace, almost a smile on his lips.

Hi had said to mother in his youth, I will leave on a beautiful friday..and he did.

I did see his energy it was beautiful.

Do you know what 555 has for meaning??

Love
ia

Well..I was interpreting 17.55. as 555 or VVV.

Life IS 5 - Who? What? When? Where? Why? ~ All answered with !!!You!!!

555 ~ The energy of Change, neither bad nor good. Overall meaning - Embracing Change ... (Life 3 Fold/Triune) Death & Birth inwardly meet where Life ever IS. Death~>Life<~Birth

VVV ~ Victory~>Spirit<~Peace

Y

LOVE ~ 15 - !!!How!!!

How=You and(et) You=How

Love Oriented and(et) Orienting Love

One ~ Orientation IS...Isness (HaYaH);even still aHYaH - The Spirit within walking within Spirit.

The Living One
966
Aleph;Elaph...Same Same

Simple answer: Awe~>Child<~Wonder

The Awe in Victory over Death

The Child of Spirit as Life

The Wonder at Peace following Birth

How that Love is You

~
Is I over Death, my Self as Life, Is Me following Birth, All that is You.

Is I the Awe, my Self the Child, Is Me the Wonder, How is You.

Is I in Victory, my Self of Spirit, Is Me at Peace, Love is You.
~

For what You look for has already come, You just hAve not seen it.

Ave Maria... http://youtu.be/IXyVItsjYmU

The Spirit and the bride say, come. And let him that heareth say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev.22:17

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.

Lest You done...altogether Be, don't merely go...JUST...keep coming.

P.S. and that is the short answer.;)

susan

5th March 2016, 05:27 PM

Condolences also IA for your loss.
Comforting for you that he passed in that way.

IA56

6th March 2016, 06:41 AM

Condolences also IA for your loss.
Comforting for you that he passed in that way.

Thank you Susan.

Love
ia

IA56

6th March 2016, 07:24 AM

WHAT IS A MIRACLE?

A miraclee is a correction. I does not create, nor really change at
all. It merely looks on devastation. and reminds the mind that what
it sees is false. It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond
perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. Thus it stays
within timeÂ´s limits. Yet it paves the way for the return of
timelessness and loveÂ´s awakening, for fear must slip away under
the gentle remedy it brings.
A miracle contains the gift of grace, for it is given and received
as one. And thus it illustrates the law of truth the world does not
obey, because it fails entirely to understand its ways. A miracle
inverts perception which was upside down before, and thus it ends
the strange distortions that were manifest. Now is perception open
to the truth. Now is forgiveness seen as justified.
Forgiveness is the home of miracles. The eyes of Christ deliver
them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. Perception stands
corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to
bless. Each lily of forgiveness offers all the World the silent miracle
of love. And each is laid before the Word of God, upon the universal
altar to Creator and Creation in the light of perfect purity and endless joy.
The miracle is taken first on faith, because to ask for it implies the mind
has been made ready to conceive of what it cannot see and does not
understand. Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested
on is really there. And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and
show it rested on a world more real than what you saw Before; a World
redeemed from what you thought was there.
Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty
world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. Now they have
water. Now the world is green. And everywhere the signs of life spring
up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality.

LESSON 341

"I can attack but my own sinlessness, And it is only that which keeps me safe."

"Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness
so dear and Deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your
Holiness. How pure, how safe, and holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile,
with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and
Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness
conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him."

Let us not, then, attack our sinlessness, for it contains the Word of God to us.
And in its kind reflection we are saved.

Love

IA56

6th March 2016, 07:27 AM

Well..I was interpreting 17.55. as 555 or VVV.

Life IS 5 - Who? What? When? Where? Why? ~ All answered with !!!You!!!

555 ~ The energy of Change, neither bad nor good. Overall meaning - Embracing Change ... (Life 3 Fold/Triune) Death & Birth inwardly meet where Life ever IS. Death~>Life<~Birth

VVV ~ Victory~>Spirit<~Peace

Y

LOVE ~ 15 - !!!How!!!

How=You and(et) You=How

Love Oriented and(et) Orienting Love

One ~ Orientation IS...Isness (HaYaH);even still aHYaH - The Spirit within walking within Spirit.

The Living One
http://www.astraldynamics.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=966&stc=1
Aleph;Elaph...Same Same

Simple answer: Awe~>Child<~Wonder

The Awe in Victory over Death

The Child of Spirit as Life

The Wonder at Peace following Birth

How that Love is You

~
Is I over Death, my Self as Life, Is Me following Birth, All that is You.

Is I the Awe, my Self the Child, Is Me the Wonder, How is You.

Is I in Victory, my Self of Spirit, Is Me at Peace, Love is You.
~

For what You look for has already come, You just hAve not seen it.

Ave Maria... http://youtu.be/IXyVItsjYmU

The Spirit and the bride say, come. And let him that heareth say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev.22:17

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.

Lest You done...altogether Be, don't merely go...JUST...keep coming.

P.S. and that is the short answer.;)

:-) Yes, thank you Tim, I will write more, but I am now Crying so much that I canÂ´t see the computor screen

Love
ia

newfreedom

6th March 2016, 12:08 PM

Sorry to hear about your father's 'passing' ia, wishing you all love, peace & comfort

IA56

7th March 2016, 04:23 AM

LESSON 342

"I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me."

"I thank You Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I
made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its
unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I reached the door
beyond which lies the end of dreams. I stand before the gate of
Heaven, wondering if I should enter it and be at home. Let me not
wait again today. Let me forgive all things, and let Creation be as
You would have it be and as it is. Le me remember that I am Your
Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing
light of truth, as memory of Your returns to me."

Brother, forgive me now. I come to you to take you home with
me. And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God.

Love

IA56

7th March 2016, 04:25 AM

Sorry to hear about your father's 'passing' ia, wishing you all love, peace & comfort

Thank you newfreedom.

Love
ia

Timothy

7th March 2016, 08:35 PM

LESSON 342

"I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me."

"I thank You Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I
made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its
unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I reached the door
beyond which lies the end of dreams. I stand before the gate of
Heaven, wondering if I should enter it and be at home. Let me not
wait again today. Let me forgive all things, and let Creation be as
You would have it be and as it is. Le me remember that I am Your
Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing
light of truth, as memory of Your returns to me."

Brother, forgiveme now. I come to you to take you home with
me. And as we go, the world goes with us on our way to God.

Love

Yes Yes

IA56

8th March 2016, 06:36 AM

LESSON 343

"I am not asked to make a sacrifice
To find the mercy and the peace of God."

"The end of suffering can not be loss. The gift of everything can
be but gain. You only give. You never taka away. And You created
me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as
You. I, too, must give. And so all things are given unto me forever
and forever. As I was created I remain. Your Son can make no
sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing
You. I am complete because I am Your Son. I cannot lose, for I can
only give, and everything is mine eternally."

The mercy and the peace of God are free. Salvation has no cost. It
is a gift that must be freely given and received. And it is this that we
would learn today.

Love

IA56

8th March 2016, 07:09 AM

Well..I was interpreting 17.55. as 555 or VVV.

Life IS 5 - Who? What? When? Where? Why? ~ All answered with !!!You!!!

555 ~ The energy of Change, neither bad nor good. Overall meaning - Embracing Change ... (Life 3 Fold/Triune) Death & Birth inwardly meet where Life ever IS. Death~>Life<~Birth

VVV ~ Victory~>Spirit<~Peace

Y

LOVE ~ 15 - !!!How!!!

How=You and(et) You=How

Love Oriented and(et) Orienting Love

One ~ Orientation IS...Isness (HaYaH);even still aHYaH - The Spirit within walking within Spirit.

The Living One
http://www.astraldynamics.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=966&stc=1
Aleph;Elaph...Same Same

Simple answer: Awe~>Child<~Wonder

The Awe in Victory over Death

The Child of Spirit as Life

The Wonder at Peace following Birth

How that Love is You

~
Is I over Death, my Self as Life, Is Me following Birth, All that is You.

Is I the Awe, my Self the Child, Is Me the Wonder, How is You.

Is I in Victory, my Self of Spirit, Is Me at Peace, Love is You.
~

For what You look for has already come, You just hAve not seen it.

Ave Maria... http://youtu.be/IXyVItsjYmU

The Spirit and the bride say, come. And let him that heareth say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev.22:17

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.

Lest You done...altogether Be, don't merely go...JUST...keep coming.

P.S. and that is the short answer.;)

Thank you Tim for your short answer ;-)
I have felt fatherÂ´s child like awe that he is still alive :-)
Your answer did open up so much in me that tears did invade me, the only thing what did spoil my happiness was my sister,
I did show her your answer the first reaction, she was interesting because she thought it was to father, but when it was to me,
she said, I do not understand a word, and then she did not want to listen to the song at all, she went to kitchen to do something
but listen.....she did not understand my tears what was of joy over your answer, thank you Tim.

Father is in child like ave :-)

Love
ia

IA56

9th March 2016, 07:22 AM

LESSON 344

"Today I learn the law of love; that what
I give my brother is my gift to me."

"This is Your law, my Father, not my own. I have understood
what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself
alone. And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I
found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. Who
can share a dream? And what can an illusion offer me? Yet he
whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on
earth. Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with HeavenÂ´s
treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled.
And thus Your Son arises and returns to You."

How near we are to one another, as we go to God. How near is
He to us. How Close the ending of the dream of sin, and the
redemption of the Son of God.

Love

dontco

9th March 2016, 04:28 PM

Dear IA, I'm so sorry about your father :( sending you loving thoughts.

IA56

9th March 2016, 04:43 PM

Dear IA, I'm so sorry about your father :( sending you loving thoughts.

Thank you dear dontco :-)

Love
ia

IA56

10th March 2016, 06:49 AM

LESSON 345

"I offer only miracles today,
For I would have them be returned to me."

"Father, a miracle reflects Your gifts to me. Your Son. And every
one I give returns to me, reminding me the law of love is universal.
Even here, it takes a form which can be recognized and seen to
work. The miracles I give are given back in just the form I need to
help me with the problems I perceive, Father, in Heaven it is
different, for there, there are no needs. But here on earth, the
miracles is closer to Your gifts than any other gift that I can give.
Then let me give this gift alone today, which, born of true forgiveness,
lights the way that I must travel to remember you."

Peace to all seeking hearts today. The light has come to offer
miracles to bless the tired world. It will find rest today, for we will
offer what we have received.

Love

IA56

11th March 2016, 07:28 AM

LESSON 346

"Today the peace of God envelops me,
And I forget all things except His Love."

"Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my preception of
all things. And so begins the day I share with You as I will share
eternity, for time has stepped aside today. I do not seek the things of
time, and so I will not look upon them. What I seek today transcends
all laws of time and things perceived in time. I would forget all things
except Your Love. I would abide in You, and know no laws except
Your law of love. And I would find the peace which You created for
Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory
and my own."

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but
the peace of God. For we will learn today what peace is ours, when
we forget all things except GodÂ´s Love.

Love

IA56

12th March 2016, 08:10 AM

LESSON 347

"Anger must come from judgment. Judgment is
The weapon I would use against myself,
To keep the miracles away from me."

"Father, I want what goes against my will, and do not want what
is my will to have. Straighten my mind, my Father. It is sick. But
You have offered freedom, and I choose to claim Your gift today.
And so I give all judgment to the One You gave to me to judge for
me. He sees what I behold, and yet He knows the truth. He looks on
pain, and yet He understands it is not real, and in His understanding
it is healed. He gives the miracles my dreams would hide from my
awareness. Let Him judge today. I do not know my will, but He is
sure it is Your Own. And He will speak for me, and call Your miracles
to come to me."

Listen today. Be very still, and hear the gentle Voice for God assuring
you that He has judged you as the Son He loves.

Love

IA56

13th March 2016, 07:31 AM

LESSON 348

"I have no cause for anger or for fear,
For You surround me. And in every need
That I perceive, Your grace suffices me."

"Father, let me remember You are here, and I am not alone.
Surrounding me is everlasting Love. I have no cause for anything
except the perfect Peace and joy I share with You. What need have I
for anger or for fear? Surrounding me is perfect safety. Can I be
afraid, when Your eternal promise goes with me? Surrounding me is
perfect sinlessness. What can I fear, when You created me in holiness
as perfect as Your Own?"

GodÂ´s grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do.
And only that we choose to be our will as well as His.

Love

IA56

14th March 2016, 04:52 AM

LESSON 349

"Today I let ChristÂ´s vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead."

"So would I liberate things I see, and give them the freedom
that I seek. For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I
would find and make my own. It will be given me, because I have
chosen it as the gift I want to give. Father, Your gifts are mine. Each
one that I accept given me a miracle to give. And giving as I would
receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me."

Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all.
And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and
heal our minds as we return to Him.

Love

IA56

15th March 2016, 08:52 AM

LESSON 350

"Miracle mirror GodÂ´s eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him,
And through His memory to save the world."

"What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves.
The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You
created him. Your memory depends on his forgiveness. What he is,
is unaffected by his thoughts. But what he looks upon is their direct
result. Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. Only Your memory
will set me free. And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your
memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness."

And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful.
For as we remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the
reality of Love.

Love

IA56

16th March 2016, 07:49 AM

WHAT AM I?

"I am GodÂ´s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the
reflection of His Love. In me is His Creation sanctified and
guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible,
and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God
Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy
Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own."

Our use for words is almost over now. Yet in the final days of this
one year we gave to God together, you and I, we found a single
purpose that we shared. And thus you joined with me, so what I am
are you as well. The truth of what we are is not for words to speak of
nor describe. Yet we can realize our function here, and Words can
speak of this and teach it, too, if we exemplify the words in us.
We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of
the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And
this, our gifts, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brothers,
and perceive all things as kindly and as good. We do not seek a
function that is part the gate of Heaven. Knowledge will return when
we have done our part. We are concerned only with giving welcome
to the truth.
Ours are the eyes through which ChristÂ´s vision sees a World
redeemed from every thought of sin. Ours are the ears that hear
the Voice of God proclaim the world as sinless. Ours the mind that
join together as we bless the world. And from the oneness that we have
attained we call to all our Brothers, asking them to share our peace
and consummate our joy.
We are the holy Messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying
His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written
on our hearts. And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which
we came, and which we seek to serve. We bring glad tidings to the Son
of God, who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed. And as he sees
the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear
into the Heart of God.

LESSON 351

"My sinless brother is my guide to peace.
My sinful brother is my guide to pain.
And which I choose to see I will behold."

"Who is my brother but Your holy Son? And if I see him sinful I
proclaim myself a sinner, not a Son of God; alone and friendless in a
fearful world. Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish.
I can also see my brother sinless, as Your holy Son. And with this choice
I see my sinlessness my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me,
and my way secure and clear. Choose, them, for me, my Father, through
Your Voice. For He alone gives judment in Your Name."

Love

IA56

17th March 2016, 07:52 AM

LESSON 352

"Judgment and love are opposites. From one
come all the sorrows of the world. But from
the other comes the Peace of God Himself."

"Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. Through
this I come to You. Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind.
Yet love, reflected in forgivneness here, reminds me You have given
me way to find Your peace again. I am redeemed when I elect to
follow in this way. You have not left me comfortless. I have within
me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. Father, I
would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today.For I would love
my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You."

Love

IA56

18th March 2016, 05:26 AM

LESSON 353

"My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today
have but one purpose; to be given Christ
to use to bless the world with miracles."

"Father, I give all that is mine today to Christ, to use in any way
that best will serve the purpose that I share with Him. Nothing is
mine alone, for He and I have joined in purpose. Thus has learning
come almost to its appointed end. A while I work with Him to serve
His purpose. Then I lose myself in my Identity, and recognize that
Christ is but my Self."

Love

IA56

19th March 2016, 06:19 AM

LESSON 354

"We stand together, Christ and I, in peace
and certainly of purpose. And in Him
is His Creator, as He is in me."

"My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond
the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. I have no
self except the Christ in me. I have no purpose but His Own. And He
is like His Father. Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. For
who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? And what am I
except the Christ in me?

Love

IA56

20th March 2016, 07:10 AM

LESSON 355

"There is no end to all the peace and joy,
and all the miracles that I will give,
when I accept GodÂ´s Word. Why not today?"

"Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me?
For YOu will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. I am sure
my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find
it. Even now my fingers touch it. It is very Close, I need not wait an
instant more to be at peace forever. It is You I choose, and my
Identity along with You. Your Son would be Himself, and know
You as his Father and Creator, and his Love."

Love

IA56

21st March 2016, 09:18 AM

LESSON 356

"Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracles is thus a call to Him."

"Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call
Your Son might make to You. It does not matter where he is, what
seems to be his problem, nor what he believes he has become. He is
Your Son, and You will answer him. The miracle reflects Your Love,
and thus it answers him. Your Name replaces every thought of sin,
and who is sinless cannot suffer pain. Your Name gives answer to
Your Son, because to call Your Name is but to call his own."

Love

IA56

22nd March 2016, 06:08 AM

LESSON 357

"Truth answers every call we make to God,
responding first with miracles, and then
returning unto us to be itself."

"Forgiveness, truthÂ´s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles,
and thus escape the prison house in which I Think I live. Your holy
Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. Your
Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I
receive. And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice
instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the
way shall be:

`Behold his sinlessness, and be your healed`"

Love

IA56

23rd March 2016, 08:26 AM

LESSON 358

"No call to God can be unheard nor left
unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the only I really want."

My dear mother passed away yesterday at 19.50, it is unbelieveble, but true.

"You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I
really want. You speak for God, and so You speak to me. And
what You give me comes from God Himself. Your Voice, my
Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in
just the form You choose that it be mine. Let me remember all I do
not know, and let my voice be still, remembering. But let me not
forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in
my avareness always. Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my
Self is all."

Love

Timothy

24th March 2016, 03:40 AM

IA,

What? OMG!! I'm so sorry for your loss of of your mother. ...on top of you just losing your father.

I myself am dealing with a near death incident of someone close to me.

LOVE

susan

24th March 2016, 08:51 AM

IA56

24th March 2016, 01:25 PM

LESSON 359

"GodÂ´s answer is some form of Peace. All pain
is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
is understood as merely a mirstake."

"Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let Creation be
Your Own. We have misunderstood all things. But we have not
made sinners of the holy Sons of God. What You created sinless so
abides forever and forever. Such are we. And we rejoice to learn
that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. Sin is
impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base
more solid than the shadow world we see. Help us forgive, for we
would be redeemed. Help us forgive, for we would be at Peace."

Love

IA56

24th March 2016, 01:32 PM

IA,

What? OMG!! I'm so sorry for your loss of of your mother. ...on top of you just losing your father.

I myself am dealing with a near death incident of someone close to me.

LOVE

Thank you Tim, 18 days between fathers and mothers death, it is tough. I send love and strength for your loss.

Love
ia

IA56

24th March 2016, 01:35 PM

IA56

25th March 2016, 06:18 AM

LESSON 360

"Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us."

"Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I
am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays
remain forever still and undisturbed within me. I would reach to
them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be
found. peace be to me, and peace to all the world. In holiness were
we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to You in
perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say 'Amen'."

Love

IA56

25th March 2016, 06:41 AM

Oh IA, you poor dear. Finding words to say to you is hard as I had 6 years between the death of both parents. Having to handle both so close is dreadful.
One thing I will say is that from the feelings of loneliness and slight fear and vulnerability as my teachers, mentors, confidants, fixers, helpers had been taken away , in time this made me a stronger person.
I hope you will find this strength.

Hi Susan,
I wanted tell this yesterday but was not able to write so much because of my tears filling my eyes and made me unable to see, but I feel a strong urge to tell you this.

I do not know how much you know about me and my inner work, but I have bean working intensivly since 1981 after the big beating of me, to understand our humans behavings towards each others.
Now when my parents are gone, and me being done the work in forgiveness towards them and towards others too off course, my parents did make the last release if I can put it this way, the last release of my sadness to have bean badly treated and healed it away from me....I am so relieved in my inner...I feel light and healed in my inner....I have my body pain that is the same, but I have forgive and I am forgiven....it is hard to explain this feeling in midts of my grief of my loss of my parents, I have now very deep understanding that they have a very deep peace now too..and that it is a two way street....my grief is not giving me any pain but total relief and deep understanding...I was able to work my pain what I feel is caused by my parents and the upbringing with them, I feel now and understand why I had them as my parents...we did this work togeather, not in the physical but, they never told me about them really working with theires inner in the energy level, but now I know, I would not have bean clear and done if they not have done theires part, I feel they did and I am in such a deep awe....and in such a gratitude to feeling their deep gratitude towards me, we did it together...Thank you and Amen. We have given peace to each others, thank you and rest in peace for ever and I am happy you made it too...

Love
ia

IA56

26th March 2016, 06:54 AM

THE LAST LESSONS

Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible.We use
them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us
that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the
way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons,
as to Him we give our lives henceforth. For we would not return again
to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking
and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the
hope of trust and the escape from pain.
His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way
tht everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself
appointed. In the Dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is
already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let
us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the
leaders of our many Brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.
And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to
serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the World.
It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the Dream we seek,
and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recongize as part
of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.
It is our function to remember Him on Earth, as it is given us to be His Own
completion in rerality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that
rememberance which contains the memory of God, and Points the way to Him
and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can
offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us.
In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.
We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son.
We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all that wrath we thought belongs
to God, and found it was a dream.
We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack
is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath
because we learned we were mistaken.
Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to
understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help
us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would He hurt His Son?
Or would He rush to answer him, and say, "This is my Son, and all I have is his?" Be
certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own Words to you.
And more than that can no one ever have, for in the Words is all there is, and all that
there will be throughout all time and in eternity.

LESSONS 361 - 365

"This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in change. For I would follow You.
Certain that Your direction give me peace."

And I need a word to help me. He will give it to me. If I need a
thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a
tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in
charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He
speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.

EPILOQUE

This course is a beginning, not an end. Your Friend goes with you.
You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain.
Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has answer, and will
gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him.
He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that
seems to trouble you. He knows the way to solve all problems, and
resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him,
and it will be given you.
You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun
laid down Before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in
between. Indeed, your pathway is more certain still. For it can not
be possible to change the course of those whom God has called to
Him. Therefore obey your will, and follow Him Whom you accepted
as your voice, to speak of what you really want and really need.
His is the Voice for God and also yours. And thus He speaks of
freedom and of truth.
No more specific lessons aree assigned, for there is no more need of
them. Henceforth, hear but the Voice of God and for your Self when
you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. He will direct your
efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and
when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure directions and
His certain Word. His is the Word that God has given you. His is the
Word you chose to be your own.
And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful followers, with Him
as Guide through every difficutly and all pain that you may think is real.
Nor will He give you pleasures that will pass away, for He gives only the
eternal and the good. Let Him prepare your further. He has earned your
trust by speaking daily to you of your Father and your brother and your Self.
He will continue. Now you walk with Him, as certain as is He of where you go;
as sure as He of how you should proceed; as confident as He is of the goal,
and of your safe arrival in the end.
The end is certain, and the means as well. To this we say "Amen."
You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make.
And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you
not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach. And so we
walk with Him from this time on, and turn to Him for guidance and for peace and sure
direction. Joy attends our way. For we go homeward to an open door which God has
held unclosed to welcome us.
We trust our ways to Him and say "Amen."
In peace we will continue in His way, and trust all things to Him. In confidence we wait
His answers, as we ask His Will in everything we do. He loves GodÂ´s Son as we would
love him. And He teaches us how to behold him through His eyes, and love him as He does.
You do not walk alone. GodÂ´s angels hover near and all about. His Love surrounds you,
and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfotless.

In this book there are a manual for teachers, is there any interest for it, if there is, then I will continue to write it here too.

Love

Timothy

26th March 2016, 03:20 PM

IA,

Please do continue...is very interesting. ;)

IA56

27th March 2016, 01:19 PM

MANUAL FOR TEACHERS

Introduction

The role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the
thinking of the world. The reversal is characteristic. It seems as if the
teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to
the learner rather than to himself. Further, the act of teaching is
regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively
small proportion of oneÂ´s time. The course, on the other hand , empasizes
that to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. It also
emhpasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment
of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you
demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your
demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you
will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said
to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of
what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and
this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what
you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any
situation must be to a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to
you. No more than that, but also never less.
The curriculum you set up is therefore determined exclusively by what you think
you are, and what you believe the relationship of others is to you. In the formal
teaching situation, the questions may be totally unrelated to what you think you
are teaching. Yet it is impossible not to use the content of any situation on behalf
of what you really teach, and therefore really learn. To this the verbal content of
your teaching is quite irrelevant. It may concider with it, or it may not. It is the
teaching underlying what you say that teaches you. Teaching but reinforces what
you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self doubt. This
does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that
the self you think is real is what you teach.
This is inevitable. There is no escape from it. How could it be otherwise? Everyone
who follows the worldÂ´s curriculum, and everyone here does follow it until he changes
his mind, teaches solely to convince himself that he is what he is not. Herein is the
purpose of the world. What else, then, would its curriculum be? Into this hopless and
closed learning situation, which teaches nothing but despair and death. God sends
His teachers. And as they teach His lessons of joy and hope, their learning finally
becomes complete. Except for GodÂ´s teachers there would be little hope of salvation,
for the world of sin would seem forever real. The self-deceiving must deceive, for they
must teach deception. And what else is hell? This is a manual for the teachers of God.
They are not perfect, or they would not be here. Yet it is their mission to become perfect
here, and so they teach perfection over and over, in many, many ways, until they have
learned it. And then they are seen no more, although their thoughts remain a source of
strength and truth forever. Who are they? How are they chosen? What do they do? How
can they work out their own salvation and the salvation of the world? This manual attempts
to answer these questions.

Love

IA56

28th March 2016, 04:11 AM

WHO ARE GODÂ´S TEACHERS?

A teacher of God is anyone who chooses to be one. His
qualifications consist solely in this; somehow, somewhere he has
made a deliberate choice in which he did not see his interests as apart
from someone elseÂ´s. Once he has done that, his road is established
and his directions is sure. A light has entered the darkness. it may be a
single light, but that is enough. He has entered an agreement with God
even if he does not yet believe in Him. He has become a bringer of
salvation. He has become a teachewr of God.
They come from all over the world. They come from all religions and from
no religion. They are the ones who have answered. The Call is universal.
It goes on all the time everywhere. It calls for teachers to speak for It and
redeem the world. Many hear It, but few will answer. Yet it is all a matter
of time. Everyone will answer in the end, but the end can be a long, long
way off. It is because of this that the plan of the teachers was established.
Their function is to save time. Each one begins as a single light, but with
the Call at its center it is a light that cannot be limited. And each one saves
a thousand years of time as the world judges it. To the Call Itself time has
no meaning.
There is a course for every teacher of God. The form of the course varies
greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the
course never changes. Its central theme is always, "GodÂ´s Son is guiltless,
and in his innocence is his salvation." It can be taught by actions or thoughts;
in words or soundlessly; in any language or in no language; in any place or
time or manner. It does not matter who the teacher was before he heard the
Call. He has become a savior by his answering. He has seen someone else as
himself. He has therefore found his own salvation and the salvation of the world.
In his rebirth is the world reborn.
This is a manual for a special curriculum, intended for teachers of a special form
of the universal course. There are many thousands of other forms, all with the same
outcome. They merely save time. Yet it is time alone that winds on wearily, and the
world is very tired now. It is old and worn and without hope. There was never a question
of outcome, for what can change the Will of God? But time, with its illusions of change
and death, wears out the world and all things in it. Yet time has an ending, and it is this
that the teachers of God are appointed to bring about. For time is in their hands. Such
was their choice, and it is given them.

Love

IA56

29th March 2016, 05:35 AM

WHO ARE THEIR PUPILS?

Certain pupils have been assigned to each of GodÂ´s teachers, and
they will begin to look for him as soon as he has answered the Call.
They were chosen for him because the form of the universal curriculum
that he will teach is best for them in view of their level of understanding.
His pupils have been waiting for him, for his coming is certain. Again, it
is only a matter of time. Once he has chosen to fulfill his role, they are
ready to fulfill theirs. Time waits on his choice, but not on whom he will
serve: When he is ready to learn, the opportunities to teach will be
provided for him.
In order to understand the teaching-learning plan of salvation, it is
necessary to grasp the concept of time that the course sets forth.
Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. Therefore, it corrects what
never was. Further, the plan for this correction was established and
completed simultaneously, for the Will of God is entirely apart from
time. So is all reality, being of Him. The instant the idea of separation
entered the mind of GodÂ´s Son, in that same instant was GodÂ´s
Answer given. In time this happened very long ago. In reality it never
happened at all.
The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago
seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be
Ã¶pen; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long
ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different
approach. Because your will is free you can accept what has already
happened at any time you choose, and only then will your realize that it
was always there. As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose
the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free,
however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is
already learned.
Time really, then, goes backward to an instant so ancient that it is beyond
all memory, and past even the possibillity of remembering. Yet because it
is an instant that is relived again and again and still again, it seems to be now.
And thus it is that pupil and teacher seem to come together in the present,
finding each other as if they had not met before. The pupil comes at the right
time to the right place. This is inevitable, because he made the right choice in
that ancient instant which he now relives. So has the teacher, too, made an
inevitable choice in that ancient instant which he now relieves. So has the
teacher, too, made an inevitable choice out of an ancient past. GodÂ´s Will
in everything but seems to take time in the working-out. What could delay
the power of eternity?
When pupil and teacher come together, a teaching-learning situation begins.
For the teacher is not really the one who does the teaching. GodÂ´s Teacher
speak to any two who join together for learning purposes. The relationship
is holy because of that purpose, and God has promised to send His Spirit
into any holy relationship. In the teaching-learning situation, each one learns
that giving and receiving are the same. The demarcations they have drawn
between their roles, the minds, their bodies, their needs, their interests, and
all the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow
dim an disappear. Those who would learn the same course share one interest
and one goal. And thus he who was the learner becomes a teacher of God himself,
for he has made the one decision that gave his teacher to him. He has seen in
another person the same interests as his own.

Love

'

IA56

30th March 2016, 07:21 AM

WHAT ARE THE LEVELS OF THEACHING?

The teachers of God have not set teaching level. Each teaching-learning
situation involves a different relationship at the beginning, although the
ultimate goal is Always the same; to make of the relationship a holy
relationship, in which both can look upon the Son of God as sinless.
There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn, so there is
no one whom he cannot teach. However, from a practical point of view
he cannot meet everyone, nor can everyone find him. Therefore, the plan
includes very specific contacts to be made for each teacher of God. There
are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because
together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for
each other.
The simplest level of teaching appears to be quite superficial. It consists of
what seem to be very casual encounters; a "chance" meeting of two apparent
strangers in a elevator, a child who is not looking where he is going running
into a adult "by chance," two students "happening" to walk home together.
These are not chance encounters. Each of them has the potnetial for becoming
a teaching-learning situation. Perhaps the seeming stranges in the elevator will
smile to one Another; perhaps the adult will not scold the child for bumping into
him; perhpas the student will become friends. Even at the level of the most casual
encounter, it is possible for two people to lose sight of separate interest, if only for
a moment. That moment will be enough. Salvation has come.
It is difficult to understand that levels of teaching the universal course is a concept
as meaningless in reality as is time. The illusion of one permits the illusion of the other.
In time, the teacher of God seems to begin to change his mind about the World with a
single decision, and then learns more and more about the new direction as he teaches it.
We have covered the illusion of time already, but the illusion of levels of teaching seems
to be something different. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate that these levels cannot
exist is simply to say that any level of the teaching-learning situation is part of GodÂ´s
plan for Atonement, and His plan can have no levels, being a reflection of His Will.
Salvation is already ready and always there. GodÂ´s teachers work at different levels, but
the result is always the same.
Each teaching-learning situation is maximal in the sense that each person involves will
learn the most that he can from the other person at that time. In this sense, and in this
sense only, we can speak of levels of teaching. Using the term in his way, the second
level of teaching is a more sustained relationship, in which, for a time, two people enter
into a fairly intense teaching-learning situation and then appear to separate. As with the
first level, these meetings are not accidental, nor is what appears to be the end of the
relationship a real end. Again, each has learned the most he can at the time. Yet alll who
meet will someday meet again, for it is the destiny of all relationships to become holy.
God is not mistaken in His Son.
The third level of teaching occurs in realtionships which, once they are formed, are lifelong.
These are teaching-learning situations in which each person a given a chosen learning
partner who presents him with unlimited opportunities for learning. These relationships are
generally few, because their existence implies that those involved have reached a stage
simultaneoulsy in which the teaching-learning balance is actually perfect. This does not mean
that they necessarily recongnize this; in fact, they generally do not. They may even be quite
hostile to each other for some time, and perhaps for life. Yet should they decide to learn it,
the perfect lesson is Before them and can be learned. And if they decide to learn that lesson,
they become the saviors of the teachers who falter and may even seem to fail. No teacher
of God can fail to find the Help he needs.

Love

IA56

31st March 2016, 04:08 PM

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GODÂ´S TEACHERS?

The surface traits of GodÂ´s teachers are not at all alike. They do not
look alike to the bodyÂ´s eyes, they come from vastly different backgrounds,
their experiences of the world vary greatly, and their superficial "personalities"
are quite distinct. Nor, at the beginning stages of their functioning as teachers
of God, have they as yet acquired the deeper characteristics that will establish
them as what they are. God gives special gifts to His teachers, because they
have a special role in his plan for Atonement. Their specialness is, of course,
only temporary; set in time as a means of leading out of time. These special
gifts, born in the holy relationship toward which the teaching-learning situation
is geared, become characteristic of all teachers of God who have advanced
in their own learning. In this respect they are all alike.
All differences among the Sons of God are temporary. Nevertheless, in time
it can be said that the advanced teachers of God have the following chracteristics:

1 TRUST

This is the foundation on which their ability to fulfill their function rests. Perception
is the result of learning. In fact, perception is learning, because cause and effect are
never spearated. The teachers of God have trust in the world, because they have
learned it is not governed by the laws the world made up. It is governed by a Power
That is in them but not of them. It is this Power That keeps all things safe. It is through
this Power that the teachers of God look on a forgiven world.
When this Power has once been experienced, it is impossible to trust oneÂ´s own petty
strength again. Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty
power of an eagle has been given him? And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings
of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him? What is it that induces them to make the shift?

Love

IA56

1st April 2016, 07:26 AM

Development of trust

First, they must go through what might be called "a period of undoing."
This need not be painful, but it usually is so experienced It seems as if
things are being taken away, and it is rarely understood initially that
their lack of value is merely being recognized. How can lack of value be
perceived unless the perceiver is in a position where he must see things
in a different light? He is not yet a point at which he can make the shift
entirely internally. And so the plan will sometimes call for changes in
seem to be external circumstances. These changes are always helpful.
When the teacher of God has learned that much, he goes on to the
second stage.
Next, the teacher of God must go through "a period of sorting out-" This
is always somewhat difficult because, having learned that the changes
in his life are always helpful, he must now decide all things on the basis
of whether they increase the helpfulness or hamper it. He will find that
many, if not most of the things he valued before will merely hinder his
ability to transfer what he has learned to new situations as they arise.
Because he has valued what is really valueless, he will not generalize
the lesson for fear of loss and sacrifice. It takes great learning to
understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are
helpful. It is only to the extent to which they are helpful that any degree
of reality should be accorded them in this world of illusion. The word "value"
can apply to nothing else.
The third stage through which the teacher of God must go can be called
"a period of relinquishment." If this is interpreted as giving up the desirable,
it will engender enormous conflict. Few teachers of God escape this distress
entirely. There is, however, no point in sorting out the valuable from the
valueless unless the next obvious step taken. Therefore, the period of overlap
is apt to be one in which the teacher of God feels called upon to sacrifice his
own best interests of behalf of truth. He has not realized as yet how wholly
impossible such a demand would be. He can learn this only as he actually
does give up the valueless. Through this, he learns that where he anticipated
grief, he finds a happy lightheartedness instead; where he thought sometimes
was asked of him, he finds a gift bestowed on him.
Now comes "a period of settling down." This is a quiet time, in which the teacher
of God rests a while in reasonable peace. Now he consolidates his learning. Now
he begins to see the transfer value of what he has learned. Its potential is literally
staggering, and the teacher of God is now at the point in his progress at which he
sees in it his whole way out. "Give up what you do not want, and keep what you do."
How simple is the obvious! And how easy to do! The teacher of God needs this
period of respite. He has not yet come as far as he thinks. Yet when he is ready
to go on, he goes with mighty companions beside him. Now he rests a while, and
gathers them before going on. He will not go on from here alone.
The next stage is indeed "a period of unsettling." Now must the teacher of God
understand that he did not really know what was valuable and what was valueless.
All that he really learned so far was that he did not want the valueless, and that
he did want the valuable. Yet his own sorting out was meaningless in teaching
him the difference. The idea of sacrifice, so central to his own thought system,
had made it impossible for him to judge. He thought he learned willingness,
but now he sees that he does not know what the willingness is for. And now
he must attain a state that may remain impossible to reach for a long, long time.
He must learn to lay all judgment aside, and ask only what he really wants in every
circumstance. Were not each step in this direction so heavily reinforced, it would
be hared indeed!
And finally, there is "a period of achievement." It is here that learning is consolidated.
Now what was seen as merely shadows before become solid gains, to be counted
on in all "emergencies" as well as tranquil times. Indeed, the tranquility is their result;
the outcome of honest learning, consistency of thought and full transfer. This is the
stage of real peace, for here is HeavenÂ´s state fully reflected. From here, the way
to Heaven is open and easy. In fact, it is here. Who would "go" anywhere, if peace
of mind is already complete? And who would seek to change tranquility for something
more desirable? What could be more desirable than this?

Love

IA56

2nd April 2016, 08:09 AM

2 Honesty

All other traits of GodÂ´s teachers rest on trust. Once that has been
achieved, the others cannot fail to follow. Only the trusting can
afford honesty, for only they can see its value. Honesty does not
apply only to what you say. The term actually means consistency.
There is nothing you say that contradicts what you think or do; no
thought opposes any other thought; no act belies your word; and
no word lacks agreement with another. Such are the truly honest.
At no level are they in conflict with themselves. Therefore it is
impossible for them to be in conflict with anyone or anything.
The peace of mind which the advanced teachers of God experience
is largely due to their perfect honesty. It is only the wish to deceive
that makes for war. No one at one with himself can even conceive
of conflict. Conflict is the inevitable result of self deception, and
self deception is dishonety. There is no challenge to a teacher of God.
Challenge implies doubt, and the trust on which GodÂ´s teachers
rest secure makes doubt impossible. Therefore they can only succeed,
because they never do their will alone. They choose for all mankind;
for all the world and all things in it; for the unchanging and unchangeable
beyond appearances; and for the Son of God and his Creator. How could
they not succeed? They choose in perfect honesty, sure of their choice
as of themselves.

Love

IA56

3rd April 2016, 05:50 AM

3. Tolerance

GodÂ´s teachers do not judge. To judge is to be dishonest, for to
judge is to assume a position you do not have. Judgment without
self deception is impossible. Judgment implies that you have been
deceived in your brothers. How, then, could you not have been
deceived in yourself? Judgment implies a lack of trust, and trust
remains the bedrock of the teacher of GodÂ´s whole thought system.
Let this be lost, and all his learning goes. Without judgment are all
things equally acceptable, for who could judge otherwise? Without
judgment are all men brothers, for who is there who stands apart?
Judgment destroys honesty and shatters trust. No teacher of God
can judge and hope to learn.

Love

IA56

4th April 2016, 06:07 AM

4. Gentleness

Harm is impossible for GodÂ´s teachers. They can neither harm
nor be harmed. Harm is the outcome of judgment. It is the dishonest
act that follows a dishonest thought. It is a verdict of guilt upon a
brother, and therefore on onself. It is the end of peace and the
denial of learning. It demonstrates the absence of GodÂ´s curriculum,
and its replacement by insanity. No teacher of God but must learn,
- and fairly early in his training - that harmfulness completely
obliterates his function from his awareness. It will make him confused,
fearful, angry and suspicious. It will make the Holy SpiritÂ´s lessons
impossible to learn. Nor can GodÂ´s Teacher be Heard at all, except
by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing.
No gain can come of it.
Therefore, GodÂ´s teachers are wholly gentle. They need the strength
of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy.
To those who would do harm, it is impossible. To those to whom harm
har no meaning, it is merely natural. What choice but this has meaning
to the sane? Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven?
And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in
place of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of
gentleness? The might of GodÂ´s teachers lies in their gentleness,
for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from
GodÂ´s Son nor his Creator. Thus did they join their thoughts with
Him Who is their Source. And so their will, which always was His
Own, is free to be itself.

Love

IA56

5th April 2016, 06:29 AM

5. Joy

Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. Gentleness means that
fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy?
The open hands of gentleness are always filled. The gentle have no
pain. They cannot suffer. Why would they not be joyous? They are
sure they are beloved and must be safe. Joy goes with gentleness as
surely as grief atends attack. GodÂ´s teachers trust in Him. And they
are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can
come to them. They hold His gifts and follow in His way, because
GodÂ´s Voice directs them in all things, Joy is their song of thanks.
And Christ looks down on them in thanks as well. His need of them
is just as great as their of Him. How joyous it is to share the purpose
of salvation!

Love

IA56

6th April 2016, 07:50 AM

6. Defenselessness

GodÂ´s teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no
dreams that need defense against the truth. They do not try to make
themselves. Their joy comes from their understanding Who created
them. And does what God created need defense? No one can
become an advanced teacher of God until he fully understands that
defenses are but foolish guradians of mad illusions. The more
grotesque the dream, the fierces and more powerful its defenses
seem to be. Yet when the teacher of God finally agrees to look past
them, he finds that nothing was there. Slowly at first he lets himself
be undeceived. But he learns faster as his trust increases. It is not
danger that comes when defenses are laid down. It is safety. It is
peace. It is joy. And it is God.

Love

IA56

7th April 2016, 07:37 AM

7. Generosity

The term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God. It
is not the usual meaning of the word, in fact, it is a meaning that
must be learned and learned very carefully. Like all the other
attributes of GodÂ´s teachers this one rests ultimately on trust, for
without trust no one can be generous in the true sense. To the
world, generosity means "giving away" in the sense of "giving up."
To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep. This
has been emphasized throughout the text and the workbook, but it
is perhaps more alien to the thinking of the world than many other
ideas in our curriculum. Its greater strangeness lies merely in the
obviousness of its reversal of the worldÂ´s thinking. In the clearest
way possible, and at the simplest of levels, the word means the
exact opposite to the teachers of God and to the world.
The teacher of God is generous out of self interest. This does not
refer, however, to the self of which the world speaks. The teacher of
God does not want anything he cannot give away, because he
realizes it would be valueless to him by definition. What would he
want it for? He could only lose because of it. He could not gain.
Therefore he does not seek what only he could keep, because that is
a guarantee of loss. He does not want to suffer. Why should he
ensure himself pain? But he does not want to keep for himself all things
that are of God, and therefore for His Son. These are the things that
belong to him. These he can give away in true generosity, protecting
them forever for himself.

Love

IA56

8th April 2016, 08:26 AM

8 Patience

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and
wait without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God. All
he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as
yet, but not in doubt. The time will be as right as is the answer. And
this is true for Everything that happens now or in the future. The
past as well held no mistakes; nothing that did not serve to benefit
the world, as well as him to whom it seemed to happen. Perhaps it
was not understood at the time. Even so, the teacher of God is
willing to reconsider all his past decisions, if they ar causeing pain
to anyone. Patience is natural to those who trust. Sure of the
ultimate interpretation of all things in time, so outcome already
seen or yet to come can cause them fear.

Love

IA56

9th April 2016, 05:43 AM

9 Faithfulness

The extent of the teacher of GodÂ´s faithfulness is the measure of
his advancement in the curriculum. Does he still select some
aspects of his life to bring to his learning, while keeping others
apart? If so, his advancement is limited, and his trust not yet firmly
established. Faithfulness is the teacher of GodÂ´s trust in the Word of
God to set all things right; not some, but all. Generally, his faithfulness
begins by resting on just some problems, remaining carefully limited
for a time. To give up all problems to one Answer is to reverse the
thinking of the world entirely. And that alone is faithfulness. Nothing
but that really deserves the name. Yet each degree, however small,
is worth achieving. Readiness, as the text notes, is not mastery.
True faithfulness, however, does not deviate. Being consistent, it
is wholly honest. Being unswerving, it is full of trust. Being based
on fearlessness, it is gentle. Being certain, it is joyous. And being
confident, it is tolerant. Faithfulness, then, combines in itself the
other attributes of GodÂ´s teachers. It implies acceptance of the Word
of God and His definition of His Son. It is to Them that faithfulness
in the true sense is Always directed. Toward Them it looks, seeking
until it finds. And haveing found, it rests in quiet certainty on That
alone to Which all faithfulness is due.

Love

IA56

10th April 2016, 05:15 AM

10 Open-Mindedness

The centrality of open-mindedness, perhaps the last of the
attributes the teacher of God acquires, is easily understood when its
relation to forgiveness is recongnized. Open-mindedness comes with
lack of judgment. At judgment shuts the mind against GodÂ´s Teacher,
so open-mindedness invites Him to come in. As condemnation judges
the Son of God as evil, so open-mindedness permits him to be judged
by the Voice of God on His behalf. As the projection of guilt upon him
would send him to hell, so open-mindedness lets ChristÂ´s image be
extended to him. Only the open-minded can be at peace, for they alone
see reason for it.
How do the open-minded forgive? They have let go all things that would
prevent forgiveness. They have in truth abandoned the world, and let it be
restored to them in newness and in joy so glorious they could never have
have conceived of such a change. Nothing is now as it was formerly.
Nothing but sparkles now which seemed so dull in lifeless before.
And above all are all things welcoming, for threat is gone. No clouds
remain to hide the face of Christ. Now is the goal achieved. Forgiveness
is the final goal of the curriculum. It pave the way for what goes far
beyond all learning. The curriculum makes no effort to exceed its
legitimate goal. Forgiveness is its single aim, at which all learning
ultimately converges. It is indeed enough.
You may have noticed that the list of attributes of GodÂ´s teachers
does not include things that are the Son of GodÂ´s inheritance. Terms
like love, sinlessness, perfection, knowledge and eternal truth do
not appear in this context. They would be most inappropriate here.
What God has given is so far beyond our curriculum that learning
but disappears in its presence. Yet while its presence is obscured,
the focus properly belongs on the curriculum. It is the function of
GodÂ´s teachers to bring true learning to the world. Properly speaking
it is unlearning that they bring, for that is "true learning" in the world.
It is given to the teachers of God to bring the glad tidings of complete
forgiveness to the world. Blessed indeed are they, for they are the
bringers of salvation.

Love

IA56

11th April 2016, 06:41 AM

HOW IS HEALING ACCOMPLISHED?

Healing involves an understanding of what the illusion of sickness
is for. Healing is impossible without this.

1. The perceived purpose of sickness

Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees
any value in pain. Who would choose suffering unless he thought
it brought him something, and something of value to him? He must
think it is a small price to pay for something of greater worth. For
sickness is an election; a decision. It is the choice of weakness,
in the mistaken conviction that it is strength. When this occurs, real
strength is seen as threat and health as danger. Sickness is a
method, conceived in madness, for placing GodÂ´s Son on his
FatherÂ´s throne. God is seen as outside, fierce and powerful, eager
to keep all power for Himself. Only by His death can He be conquered
by His Son.
And what, in this insane conviction, does healing stand for? It
symbolizes the defeat of GodÂ´s Son and the triumph of his Father
over him. It represents the ultimate defiance in a direct form which
the Son of God is forced to recognize. It stands for all that he would
hide from himself to protect his "life." If he is healed, he is responsible
for his thoughts. And if he is responsible for his thoughts, he will be
killed to prove to him how weak and pitiful he is. But if he chooses
death himself, his weakness is his strength.
Now has he given himself what God would give to him, and thus
entirely usurped the throne of his Creator.

Love

IA56

12th April 2016, 05:41 AM

2. The shift in perception.

Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valelessness
of sickness is recognized. One need but say, "There is no gain at
all to me in this" and he is healed. But to say this, one first must
recognize certain facts. First, it is obvious that decisions are of the
mind, not of the body. If sickness is but a faulty problem-solvning
approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and
not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is
enormous, because the existence of the world as you perceive it
depends on the body being the decision-maker. Terms like "instincts,"
"reflexes" and the like represent attempts to endow the body with
non-mental motivators. Actually, such terms merely state or decribe
the problem. They do not answer it.
The acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind, for a purpose
for which it would use the body, is the basis of healing.
And this is so for healing in all forms. A patient decides that this is so,
and he recovers. If he decides against recovery. he will not be healed.
Who is the physician? Only the mind of the patient himself.
The outcome is what he decides that it is. Special agents seem to be
ministering to him, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses
them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. And it is this they do,
and nothing else. They are not actually needed at all.
The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, "I have no use
for this." There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once.
What ist he single requisite for this shift in perception? it is simly this;
The recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with
the body. What does this recognition "cost"? It costÂ´s the whole world
you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind.
For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs;
not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as
it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see. No more and no less.
The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do
anything to the world, because he was mistaken about what it is.
Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both, for they are one.
Yet to accept this release, the insignificance of the body must be an
acceptable idea.
With this idea is pain forever gone. But with this idea goes also all
confusion about creation. Does not this follow of necessity? Place
cause and effect in their true sequence in one respect, and the
learning will generalize and transform the world. The transfer value
of one true idea has no end or limit. The final outcome of this leasson
is the remembrance of God. What do guilt and sickness, pain, disaster
and all suffering mean now? Having no purpose, they are gone.
And with them also go all the effects they seemed to cause.
Cause and effect but replicate creation. Seen in their proper perspective,
without distortion and without fear, they re-establish Heaven.

Love

IA56

13th April 2016, 07:41 AM

3. The function of the teacher of God.

If the patient must change his mind in order to be healed, what does
the teacher of God do? Can he change the patientÂ´s mind for him?
Certainly not. For those already willing to change their minds he has
no function except to rejoice with them, for they have become teachers
of God with him. He has, however, a more specific function of those who
do not understand what healing is. These patients do not realize they
have chosen sickness. On the contrary, they believe that sicness has
chosen them. Nor are they openminded on this point. The body tells
them what to do and they obey. They have no idea how insane this
concept is. If they even suspected it, they would be healed. Yet they
suspect nothing. To them the separation is quite real.
To them GodÂ´s teachers come, to represent another choice which they
has forgotten. The simple presence of a teacher of God is a reminder.
His thoughts ask for the right to question what the patient has accepted
as true. As GodÂ´s messengers, His teachers are the symbols of salvation.
They ask the patient for forgiveness for GodÂ´s Son in his own Name.
They stand for a the Alternativ, With GodÂ´s Word in their minds they come
in benediction, not to heal the sick but to remind them of the remedy God has
already given them. It is not their hands that heal. It is not their voice that speaks
the Word of God. They merely give what has been given, Very gently they call
to their brothers to turn away from death. Behold, you Son of God, what Life
can offer you. Would you choose sickness in place of this?
Not once do the advanced teacher of God consider the forms of sickness in
which their brother believes. To do this is to forget that all of them have the
same purpose, and therefore are not really different. They seek for GodÂ´s Voice
in this brother who would so deceive himself as to belive GodÂ´s Son can suffer.
And they remind him that he did not make himself, and must remain as God
created him. They recognize illusions can have no effect. The truth in their
minds reaches out to the truth in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions
are not reinforced. They are thus brought to truth; truth is not brought to them.
So are they dispelled, not by the will of another, but by the One Will with Itself.
And this is the function of GodÂ´s teachers; to see no will as separate from their
own, nor theirs as separate from GodÂ´s.

Love

IA56

14th April 2016, 05:08 AM

IS HEALING CERTAIN?

Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be
brought to truth and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates
illusions have no value. The teacher of God has seen the
correction of his errors in the mind of the patient, recognizing
it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement for himself,
he has also accepted it for the patient. Yet what if the patient
uses sickness as a way of life, believing healing is the way to
death? When this is so, a sudden healing might precipitate
intense depression, and a sense of loss so deep that the
patient might even try to destroy himself. Having nothing to
live for, he may ask for death. Healing must wait, for his protection.
Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat.
The instant it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given
it will be received. And what is time before the gifts of God?
We have referred many times in the text to the storehouse of treasures
laid up equally for the giver and the receiver of GodÂ´s gifts. Not one is
lost, for they can but increse. No teacher of God should feel disapponted
if he has offered healing and it does not appear to have been received.
It is not up to him to judge when his gift should be accepted. Let him be
certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is
recognized as a blessing and not a curse.
It is not the function of GodÂ´s teachers to evaluate the outcome of their
gifts. It is merely their function to give them. Once they have done that
they have also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. No one can
give if he is concerned with the result of giving. That is a limitation on
the giving itself, and neither the giver not the receiver would have the gift.
Trust is an essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing
possible, the part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain.
Who gives a gift and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver
deems appropriate? Such is not giving but imprisoning.
It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given.
And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Healing is the change of mind
that the Holy Spirit in the patientÂ´s mind is seeking for him. And it is the Holy
Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. How can it be lost?
How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? GodÂ´s tresure house can
never be empty. And if one gift is missing, it would not be full. Yet is its fullness
guaranteed by God. What concern, then, can a teacher of God have about
what becomes of his gifts? Given by God to God, who in this holy Exchange
can recieve less than everything?

Love

IA56

15th April 2016, 04:46 AM

SHOULD HEALING BE REPEATED?

This question answers itself. Healing cannot be repated. If the
patient is healed, what remains to heal him from? And if the
healing is certain, as we have already said it is, what is there
to repeat? For a teacher of God to remain concerned about
the result of healing is to limit the healing. It is now the teacher
of God himself whose mind needs to be healed. And it is this he
must facilitate. He is now the patient, and he must so regard
himself. He has made a mistake, and must be willing to change
his mind about it. He lacked the trust that makes for giving truly
and so he has not received the benefit of his gift.
Whenever a teacher of God has tried to be a channel for healing
he has succeeded. Should he be tempted to doubt this, he should
not repeat his previous effort. That was already maximal, because
the Holy Spirit so accepted it and so used it. Now the teacher of God
has only one course to follow. He must use his reason to tell himself
that he has given the problem to One Who cannot fail, and must
recognize that his own uncertainty is not love but fear, and therefore
hate. His position has thus become untenable, for he is offering hate
to one to whom he offered love. This is impossible. Having offered
love, only love can be received.
It is in this that the teacher of God must trust. This is what is really
meant by the statement that the one responsibility of the miracle
worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. The teacher of God
is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. Yet
he must first accept them. He need do no more, nor is there more
that he could do. By accepting healing he can give it. If he doubts
this, let him remember Who gave the gifts and Who received it.
Thus is his doubt corrected. He thought the gifts of God could be
withdrawn. That was a mistake, but hardly one to stay with. And
so the teacher of God can only recognize it for what it is, and let
be corrected for him.
One of the most difficult temptations to recognize is that to doubt
a healing because of the appearance of continuing symptoms is a
mistake in the form of lack of trust. As such it is an attack. Usually
it seemes to be just the osite. It does appear unreasonable at
first to be told that continued concern is attack. It has all the
appearances of love. Yet love without trust is impossible, and doubt
and trust cannot coexist. And hate must be the opposite of love,
regardless of the form it takes. Doubt not the gift and it is impossible
to doubt the result. This is the certainty that gives GodÂ´s teachers the
power to be miracle workers, for they have put their trust in Him.
The real basis for doubt about the outcome of any problem that has
been given to GodÂ´s Teacher for resolution is always self doubt
And that necessarily implies that trust has been placed in an illusory
self, for only such a self can be doubted. This illusion can take many
forms. Perhaps there is a fear of weakness and vulnerability.
Perhaps there is a fear of failure and shame associated with a sense
of inadequancy. Perhaps there is a guilty embarrassment stemming
from false humility. The form of the mistake is not important. What
is important is only recognition of a mistake as a mistake.
The mistake is always some form of concern with the self to the exlusion
of the patient. It is a failure to recognize him as part of the Self, and thus
represents a confusion in identity. Conflict about what you are has entered
your mind, and you have become deceived about yourself. And you are
deceived about yourself because you have denied the Source of your creation.
If you are offering only healing, you cannot doubt. Doubt is the reslut of
conflicting wishes. Be sure of what you want, and doubt becomes impossible.

Love

IA56

16th April 2016, 04:05 AM

HOW CAN PERCEPTION OF ORDER OF DIFFICIULTIES BE AVOIDED?

The belief in order of difficiulties is the basis for the worldÂ´s perception.
It rests on differences; on uneven background and shifting foreground,
on unequal hights and diverses sizes, on varying degrees of darkness
and light; and thousands of contrasts in which each thing seen competes
with every other in order to be recognized. A larger object overshadows
a smaller one. A brighter thing draws the attention from another with less
intensity of appeal. And a more threatening idea, or one conceived of as
more desirable by the worldÂ´s standards, completely upsets the mental
balance. What the body`s eyes beholds is only conflict. Look not to them
for peace and understanding.
Illusions are always illusions of differences. How could it be otherwise? By
definition, an illusion is an attempt to make something real that is regarded
as of major importance, but is recognized as being untrue. The mind therefore
seeks to make it true our of its intensity of desire to have it for itself. Illusions
are travesties of creation; attempts to bring truth to lies. Finding truth unacceptable,
the mind revolts against truth and gives itself an illusion of victory. Finding health
a burden, it retreats into feverish dreams. And in these dreams the mind is separate,
different from other minds, with different interests of its own, and able to gratify its
needs at the expense of others.
It is in the sorting out and categorizing activities of the mind that errors in perception
enter. And it is here correction must be made. The mind classifies what the body`s
eyes bring to it according to its preconceived values, judging where each sense
datum fits best. What basis could be faultier than this? Unrecognized by itself, it has
itself asked to be given what will fit into these categories. And having done so, it
concludes that the categories must be true. On this the judgment of all differences
rests, because it is on this that judgments of the world depend. Can this confused and
senseless "reasoning" be depended on for anything?
There can be no order of difficulty in healing merely because all sickness is illusion.
Is it harder to dispel the belief of the insane in a larger hallucination as opposed to
a smaller one? Will he agree more quickly to the unreality of a louder voice he hears
than to that of a softer one? Will he dismiss more easily a whispered demand to kill
that a shout? And do the number of pitchforks the devils he sees carrying affect their
credibility in his perception? His mind has categorized them all as real, and so they
are all real to him. When he realizes they are all illusions they will disappear. And so
it is with healing. The properties of illusions which seem to make them different are
really irrelevant, for their properties are as illusory as they are.
The body`s eyes will continue to see differences. But the mind that has let itself be
healed will no longer acknowledge them. There will be those who seem to be "sicker"
than others, and the bodyÂ´s eyes will report their changed appearances as before.
But the healed mind will put them all in one category; they are unreal. This is the gift
of its Teacher; the understanding that only two categories are meaningful in sorting
out the messages the mind receives from what appears to be the outside world.
And of these two, but one is real.
Just as reality is wholly real, apart from size and shape and time and place - for
differences cannot exist within it - so too are illusions without distinctions.
The one answer to sickness of any kind is healing.
The one answer to all illusions is truth.

Love

IA56

17th April 2016, 05:32 AM

ARE CHANGES REQUIRED IN THE LIFE SITUATION OF GOD`s TEACHERS?

Changes are required in the minds of GodÂ´s teachers. This may
or may not involve changes in the extarnal situation. Remember
that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part
in GodÂ´s plan. It is most unlikely that changes in attitudes would
not be the first step in the newly-made teacher of GodÂ´s training.
There is, however, no set pattern, since training is always highly
individualized. There are those who are called upon to change
theirs life situation almost immediately, but these are generally
special cases. By far the majority are given a slowly-evolving
training program. Relationships in particular must be properly
perceived, and all dark cornerstones of unforgiveness removed.
Otherwise the old thought system still has a basis for return.
As the teacher of God advances in his training, he learns one
lesson with increasing thorughness. He does not make his own
decisions; he asks his Teacher for His answer, and it is this he
follows as his guide for action. This becomes easier and easier,
as the teacher of God learns to give up his own judgment. The
giving up of judgment, the obvious prerequisite for hearing God`s
Voice, is usually a fairly slow process, not because it is difficult,
but because it is apt to be perceived as personally insulting. The
worldÂ´s training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct
opposition to that of our curriculum. The world trains for
reliance on oneÂ´s judgment as the criterion for maturity and
strength. Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment
as the necessary condition of salvation.

Love

IA56

18th April 2016, 08:29 AM

HOW IS JUDGMENT RELINQUISHED?

Judgment, like other devices by which the world of illusions is maintained,
is totally misunderstood by the world. It is actually confused with wisdom
and substitutes for truth. As the world uses the term, an individual is capable
of "good" and "bad" judgment, and his education aims at strengthening the
former and minimizing the latter. There is, however, considerable confusion
about what these categories mean. What is "good" judgment to one is "bad"
judgment at another. Further, even the same person classifies the same action
as showing "good" judgment at one time and "bad" judgment at another time.
Nor can any consistent criteria for determining what these categories are be
really taught. At any time the student may disagree with what his would-be
teacher says about them, and the teacher himself may well be inconsistent
in what he believes. "Good" judgment, in these terms, does not mean anything.
No more does "bad".
It is necessary for the teacher of God to realize, not that he should not judge,
but that he cannot. In giving up judgment, he is merely giving up what he did
not have. He gives up an illusion; or better, he has an illusion of giving up. He
has actually merelly become more honest. Recognizing that judgment was always
impossible for him, he no longer attempts it. This is no sacrifice. On the contrary,
he puts himself in a position what judgment through him rather than by him can
occur. And this judgment is neither "good" nor "bad." It is the only judgment there
is, and it is only one: "GodÂ´s Son is guiltless, and sin does not exist."
The aim of our curriculum, unlike the goal of the worldÂ´s learning, is the recognition
that judgment in the usual sense is impossible. This is not an opinion but a fact.
In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably
wide range of things; past, present and to come. One would have to recognize in advance
all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way.
And one would have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment
would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests now and in the future. Who is in a position
to do this? Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself?
Remember how many times you thought you knew all the "facts" you needed for judgment,
and how wrong you were! Is there anyone who has not had this experience? Would you know
how many times you merely thought you were right, without ever realizing you were wrong?
Why would you choose such an arbitrary basis for decision-making? Wisdom is not judgment;
it is the relinquishment of judgment. Make then but one more judgment.
It is this: There is Someone with you Whose judgment is perfect. He does know all the facts;
past, present and to come. He does know all the effects of His judgment on everyone and
everything involved in any way. And He is wholly fair to everyone, for there is no distortion
in His perception.
Therefore lay judgment down, not with regret but with a sigh of gratitude. Now are you free of
a burden so great that you could merely stagger and fall down beneath it. And it was all illusion.
Nothing more. Now can the teacher of God rise up unburdened, and walk lightly on. Yet it is not
only this that is his benfit? His sense of care is gone, for he has none. He has given it away, along
with judgment. He gave himself to Him Whose judgment he has chosen now to trust, instead of his
own. Now he makes no mistakes. His Guide is sure. And where he come to judge, he comes to
bless. Where now he laughs, he used to come to weep.
It is not difficult to relinquish judgment. But it is difficult indeed to try to keep it. The teacher of God
lays it down happily the instant he recognizes its cost. All of the ugliness he sees about him is its
outcome. All of the pain he looks upon is its result. All of the loneliness and sense of loss; of passing
time and growing hopelessness; of sickening despair and fear of death; all these have come or it.
And now he knows that these things need not be. Not one is true. For he has given up their cause,
and they, which never were but the effects of his mistaken choice, have fallen from him. Teacher
of God, this step will bring you peace. Can it be difficult to want but this?

Love

IA56

19th April 2016, 05:23 AM

HOW IS PEACE POSSBILE IN THIS WORLD?

This is a question everyone must ask. Certainly peace seems to be impossible here.
Yet the Word of God promises other things that seem impossible, as well as this.
His Word has promied peace. It has also promised that there is no death, that resurrection
must occur, and that rebirth is manÂ´s inheritance. The world you see cannot be the world
God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. GodÂ´s Word has promised
that peace is possible here, and what He promises can hardly be impossible. But it is true
that the world must be looked at differently, if His promises are to be accepted. What the
world is, is but a fact. You cannot choose what this should be. But you can choose how you
would see it.
Indeed, you must choose this.
Again we come to the question of judgment. This time ask yourself whether your judgment
or the Word of God is more likely to be true. For they say different things about the world,
and things so opposite that it is pointless to try to reconcile them. God offers the world
salvation; your judgment would condemn it. God says there is no death; your judgment sees
but death as the inevitable end of life. GodÂ´s Word assures you that He loves the world;
your judgment says it is unlovable. Who is right? For one of you is wrong. It must be so.
The text explains that the Holy Spirit is the answer to all problems you have made. These
problems are not real, but that is meaningless to those who believe in them. And everyone
believes in what he made, for it was made by his believing it. Into this strange and paradoxical
situation, - one without meaning and devoid of sense, yet out of which no way seems possible, -
God has sent His Judgment to answer yours. Gently His Judgment substitutes for yours. And
through this substitution is the un-understandable made understandable. How is peace possible
in this world? In your judgment it is not possible, and can never be possible. But in the Judgment
of God what is reflected here is only peace.
Peace is impossible to those who look on war. Peace is inevitable to those who offer peace. How
easily, then, is your judgment of the world escaped! It is not the world that makes peace seem
impossible. It is the world you see that is impossible. Yet has GodÂ´s Judgment on this distorted
world redeemed it and made it fit to welcome peace. And peace descends on it in joyous answer.
Peace now belongs here, because a Thought of God has entered. What else but a Thought of
God turns hell to Heaven merely by being what it is? The earth bows before its gracious Presence,
and it leans down in answer, to raise it up again. Now is the question different.
It is no longer, "Can peace be possible in this world?" but instead, "Is it not impossible that peace be
absent here?"

Love

IA56

20th April 2016, 07:51 AM

HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO
SAVE THE WORLD?

The answer to this question is - one. One wholly perfect teacher,
whose learning is complete, suffices. This one, sanctified and
redeemed, becomes the Self Who is the Son of God. He who was
always wholly spirit now no longer sees himself as a body, or even
as in a body. Therefore he is limitless. And being limitless, his
thoughts are joined with GodÂ´s forever and ever. His perception of
himself is based upon GodÂ´s Judgment, not his own. Thus does he
share God`s Will, and bring his thoughts to still deluded minds. He
is forever one, because he is as God created him. He has accepted
Christ, and he is saved.
Thus does the son of man become the Son of God. It is not really a
change; it is a change of mind. Nothing external alters, but everything
internal now reflects only the Love of God. God can no longer be feared,
for the mind sees no cause for punishment. GodÂ´s teachers appear to
be many, for that is what is the worldÂ´s need. Yet being joined in one
purpose, and one they share with God, how could they be separate from
each other? What does it matter if they then appear in many forms? Their
minds are one; their joining is complete. And God works through them now
as one, for that is what they are.
Why is illusion of many necessary? Only because reality is not understandable
to the deluded. Only very few can hear GodÂ´s Voice at all, and even they cannot
communicate His messages directly through the Spirit Which gave them. They
need a medium through which communication becomes possible to those who do
not realize that they are spirit. And body they can see. A voice they understand and
listen to, without the fear that truth would encounter in them. Do not forget that truth
can come only where it is welcomed without fear. So do GodÂ´s teachers need a body,
for their unity could not be recognized directly.
Yet what makes GodÂ´s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body.
As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the bodyÂ´s
function is but to let GodÂ´s Voice speak through it to human ears. And these ears will
carry to the mind of the hearer messages that are not of this world, and the mind will
understand because of their Sourse. From this understanding will come the recognition,
in this new teacher of God, of what the bodyÂ´s purpose really is; the only use there really
is for it. This lesson is enough to let the thought of unity come in, and what is one is
recognized as one. The teacher of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but
because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.
The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it
for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful
it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use it to bring the Word of God to those who
have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When
its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all. The mind makes this decision, as it makes all
decisions that are responsible for the bodyÂ´s condition. Yet the teacher of God does not make
this decision alone. To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps
it holy, GodÂ´s Voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role, just as It tells him what his function is.
He does not suffer either in going or remaining. Sickness is now impossible to him.
Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. GodÂ´s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a
conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of
their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are
recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of GodÂ´s teachers. They
watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not decieved
by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is not more real
than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this GodÂ´s
teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs.

Love

IA56

21st April 2016, 07:37 AM

WHAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF SACRIFICE?

Although in truth the term sacrifice is altogether meaningless, it does have meaning
in the world. Like all things in the world, its meaning is temporary and will unltimately
fade into the nothingness from which it came when is no more use for it. Now its real
meaning is a lesson. Like all lessons it is an illusion, for in reality there is nothing to
learn. Yet this illusion must be replaced by a corrective device; Another illusion that
replaces the first, so both can finally disappear. The first illusion, which must be dis-
placed before another thought system can take hold, is that it is a sacrifice to give up
the things of this world. What could this be but an illusion, since this world itself is
nothing more thatn that?
It takes great learnin g both to realize and to accept the fact that the world has nothing
to give. What can the sacrifice of nothing mean? It cannot mean that you have less
because of it. There is no sacrifice in the worldÂ´s terms that does not involve the body.
Think a while about what the world calls sacrifice. Power, fame, money, physical pleasure;
who is the "hero" to whom all these things belong? Could they mean anything except to a
body? Yet a body cannot evaluate. By seeking after such things the mind associates itself
with the body, obscuring its identity and losing sight of what it really is.
Once this confusion has occured, it becomes impossible for the mind to understand that all
the "pleasures" of the world are nothing. But what a sacrifice, - and it is sacrifice indeed! - all
this entails. Now has the mind condemned itself to seek without finding; to be forever dissatisfied
and discontented; to know not what it really wants to find. Who can escape this self condemnation?
Only through GodÂ´s Word could this be possible. For self condemnation is a decision about identity,
and no one doubts what he Believes he is. He can doubt all things, but never this.
GodÂ´s teachers can have no regret on giving up the pleasures of the world. It is a sacrifice to give up pain?
Does an adult resent the giving up of childrenÂ´s toys? Does one whose vision has already gimpsed
the face of Christ look back with longing on a slaughter house? No one who has escaped the world
and all its ills looks back on it with condemnation. Yet he must rejoice that he is free of all the sacrifice
its values would demand of him. To them he sacrifices all his Peace. To them he sacrifices all his freedom.
And to possess them must he sacrifice his hope of Heaven and remembrance of his FatherÂ´s Love.
Who in his sane mind chooses nothing as a substitute for Everything?
What is the real meaning of sacrifice? It is the cost of believing in illusions. It is the price that must be paid
for the denial of truth. There is no pleasure of the world that does not demand this, for otherwise the
pleasure would be seen as pain, and no one asks for pain if he recognizes it. It is the idea of sacrifice that
makes him blind. He does not see what he is asking for. And so he seeks it in a thousand ways and in a
thousand places, each time believing it is there, and each time disappointed in the end. "Seek but do not
find" worldÂ´s goals can do otherwis.
You may Believe this course requires sacrifice of all you really hold dear. In one sense this is true, for you
hold dear the things that crusify GoddÂ´s Son, and it is the courseÂ´s aim to set him free. But do not be
mistaken about what sacrifice means. It Always means the giving up of what you want. And what, O teacher
of God, is it that you want? You have been called by God and you have answered.
Would you now sacrifice that Call? Few have heard it as yet, and they can trust. There is no other hope in
all the world that they can trust. There is no other voice in all the world that echoes GodÂ´s. If you would
sacrifice the truth, they stay in hell. And if they stay, you will remain with them.
Do not forget that sacrifice is total. There is no half sacrifices. You can not give up Heaven paritally.
You cannot be a little bit in hell. The Word of God has no exceptions. It is this that makes it holy and
beyond the world. It is its holiness that points to God. It is its holiness that makes you safe. It is denied
if you attack any brother for anything. For it is here the split with God occurs. A split that is impossible.
A spilt that cannot happen. Yet a split in which you surely will believe, because you have set up a
situation that is impossible. And in this situation the impossible can seem to happen. It seems to happen.
It seems to happen at the "sacrifice" of truth.
Teacher of God, do not forget the meaning of sacrifice, and remember what each decision you make must
mean in terms of cost. Decide for God, and Everything is given you at no cost at all. Decide against Him,
and you choose nothing, at the expense of the awareness of Everything. What would you teach? Remember
only what you would learn. For it is here that your concern should be. Atonement is for you. Your learning
claims it and your Learning gives it. The world contains it not. But learn this course and it is yours. God
holds out His Word to you, for He has need of teachers.
What other way is there to save His Son?

Love

IA56

22nd April 2016, 07:50 AM

HOW WILL THE WORLD END?

Can what has no beginning really end? The world will end in an illusion, as it began.
Yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy. The illusion of forgiveness, complete,
exluding no one, limitless in gentleness, will cover it, hiding all evil, concealing all
sin and ending guilt forever. So ends the world that guilt had made, for now it has
no purpose and is gone. The father of illusions is the belief that they have a purpose;
that they serve a need or gratify a want. Perceived as purposeless, they are no longer
seen. Their uselessness is recognized, and they are gone. How but in this way are
all illusions ended? They have been brought to truth, and truth saw them not.
It merely overlooked the meaningless.
Until forgiveness is complete, the world does have a purpose. it becomes the home in
which forgiveness is born, and where it grows and becomes stronger and more all-
embracing. Here is it nourished, for here it is needed. A gentle Savior, born where sin
was made and guilt seemed real. Here is His home, for here there is need of Him indeed.
He brings the ending of the world with Him. It is His Call GodÂ´s teachers answer, turning
to Him in silence to recieve His Word. The world will end when all things in it have been
rightly judged by His judgment. The world will end with the benediction of holiness upon it.
When not one thought of sin remains, the world is over. It will not be destroyed nor attacked
nor even touched. It will merely cease to seem to be.
Certainly this seems to be a long, long while away. "When not one thought of sin remains"
appears to be along-range goal indeed. But time stands still, and Waits on the goal of GodÂ´s
teachers. Not one thought of sin will remain the instant any one of them accepts Atonement
for himself. It is not easier to forgive one sin than to forgive all of them. The illusion of orders
of difficiulty is an obstacle the teacher of God must learn to pass by and leave behind.
One sin perfectly forgiven by one teacher of God can make salvation complete. Can you
understand this? No; it is meaningless to anyone here. Ye it is the final lesson in which
unity is restored. It goes against all the thinking of the world, but so does Heaven.
The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed. Until then,
bits and pieces of its thinking will still seem sensible. The final lesson, which brings the
ending of the world, cannot be grasped by those not yet prepared to leave the world,
go beyond its tiny reach. What, then, is the function of the teacher of God in this
concluding lesson? He need merely learn how to approach it; to be willing to go in its
direction. He need merely trust that, if GodÂ´s Voice tells him it is a lesson he can learn,
he can learn it. He does not judge it either as hard or easy. His Teacher points to it,
and he trusts that He will show him how to learn it.
The world will end in joy, because it is a place of sorrow. When joy has come, the
purpose of the world has gone. The world will end in peace, because it is a place of war.
When peace has come, what is the purpose of the world? The world will end laughter,
because it is a place of tears. When there is laughter, who can longer weep?
And only complete forgiveness brings all this to bless the world. In blessing it departs,
for it will not end as it began. To turn hell into Heaven is the function of GodÂ´s teachers,
for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected. And now sit down in true
humility, and realize that all God would have you do you can do. Do not be arrogant
and say you cannot learn His Own curriculum. His Word says otherwise. His Will be done.
It cannot be otherwise. And be you thankful it is so.

Love

IA56

23rd April 2016, 06:34 AM

IS EACH ONE TO BE JUDGED IN THE END?

Indeed, yes! No one can escape GodÂ´s final judgment. Who could flee forever from the truth?
But the final judgment will not come until it is no longer associated with fear. One day each
one will welcome it, and on that very day it will be given him. He will hear his sinlessness
proclaimed around and around the world, setting it free as GodÂ´s final judgment on him is
recieved. This is the judgment in which salvation lies. This is the judgment that will set him
free. This is the judgment in which all things are feed with him. Time pauses as eternity
comes near, and silence lies across the world that everyone may hear this judgment of the
Son of God:

"Holy are you, eternal, free and whole.
At peace forever in the Heart of God.
Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

Is this your judgment on yourself, teacher of God? Do you believe that this is wholly true?
No; not yet. But this is still your goal; why you are here. It is your function to prepare
yourself to hear this judgment and to recognize that it is true. One instant of complete
belief in this, and you will go beyond belief to Certainty.
One instant out of time can bring timeÂ´s end. Judge not, for you but judge yourself, and
thus delay this final judgment. What is your judgment of the world, teacher of God? Have
you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? Or do you
still attempt to take His role from Him? Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness.
And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.
You who are sometimes sad and sometimes angry; who sometimes feel your just due is
not given you, and your best efforts meet with lack of appreciation and even contempt; give
up these foolish thoughts! They are too small and meaningless to occupy your holy free.
What can the world hold out to you, regardless of your judgments on its gifts, that you would
rather have? You will be judged, and judged in fariness and in honesty. There is no deceit in
God. His promises are sure. Only remember that. His promises have guaranteed His Judgment,
and His alone, will be accepted in the end. It is your function to make that end be soon. It is
your function to hold it to your heart, and offer it to all the world to keep it safe.

Love

IA56

24th April 2016, 07:27 AM

HOW SHOULD THE TEACHER OF GOD SPEND HIS DAY?

To the advanced teacher of God this question is meaningless. There is no program,
for the lessons change each day. Yet the teacher of God is sure of but one thing;
they do not change at random. Seeing this and understanding that it is true, he rests
content. He will be told all that his role should be, this day and every day. And those
who share that role with him will find him, so they can learn the lessons for the day
together. No one is absent whom he needs; not one is sent without a learning goal
already set, and one which can be learned that very day. For the advanced teacher
of God, then, this question is superfluous. It has been asked and answered, and he
keeps in constant contact with the Answer. He is set, and sees the road on which he
walks stretch surely and smoothly before him.
But what about those who have not reached his certainty? They are not yet ready for
such lack of structuring on their own part. What must they do to learn to give the day
to God? There are some general rules which do apply, although each one must use
them as best he can in his own way. Routines as such are dangerous, because they
easily becomes gods in their own right, threatening the very goals for which they were
set up. Broadly speaking, then, it can be said that it is well to start the day right. It is
always possible to begin again, should the day begin with error. Yet there are obvious
advantage in terms of saving time.
At the beginning, it is wise to think in terms of time. This is by no means the ultimate
criterion, but at the outset in is probably the simplest to observe. The saving of time is
an essential early emphasis which, although it remains important throughout the learning
process, becomes less and less emphasized. At the outset, we can safely say that time
devoted to starting the day right does indeed save time. How much time should be to
spent? This must depend on the teacher of God himself. He cannot claim that title until
he has gone through the workbook, since we are learning within the framwork of our course.
After completion of the more structured practice periods, which the workbook contains,
individual need becomes the chief consideration.
This course is always practical. It may be that the teacher of God is not in a situation that
fosters quiet thought as he awakes. If this is so, let him but remember that he chooses to
spend time with God as soon as possible, and let him do so. Duration is not the major
concern. one can easily sit still an hour with closed eyes and accomplish nothing. One
can as easily give God only an instant, and in this instant join with Him completely. Perhaps
the one generalization that can be made in this; as soon as possible after waking take your
quiet time, continuing a minute or two after you begin to find it difficult. You may find that
the difficulty will diminish and drop away. If not, that is the time to stop.
The same procedures should be followed at night. Perhaps your quiet time should be fairly
early in the evening, if it is not feasible for you to take in just before going to sleep. It is not
wise to lie down for it. It is better to sit up, in whatever position you prefer. Having gone
through the workbook, you must have come to some conclusion in this respect. If possible,
however, just before going to sleep is a desirable time to devote to God. It sets your mind
into a pattern of rest, and orients you away from fear. If it is expedient to spend this time
earlier, at least be sure that you do not forget a brief period, - not more than a moment
will do, - in which you close your eyes and think of God.
There is one thought in particular that should be remembered throughout the day. It is a
thought of pure joy; a thought of peace, a thought of limitless release, limitless because
all things are freed within it. You think you made a place of safety for yourself. You think
you made a power that can save you from all the fearful things you see in dreams. It is
not so. Your safety lies not there. What you give up is merely the illusion of protecting
illusions. And it is this you fear, and only this. How foolish to be so afraid of nothing!
Nothing at all! Your defenses will not work, but you are not in danger. You have no need
of them. Recognize this, and they will disappear. And only then will you accept your real
protection. How simply and how easily does time slip by for the teacher of God who has
accepted His protection! All that he did before in the name of safety no longer interests
him. For he is safe, and knows it distinctions among the problem he Perceives, for He
to Whom he turns with all off them recognizes no order of difficulty in resolving them.
He is as safe in the present as he was Before illusions were accepted into his mind,
and as he will bewhen he has let them go. There is no difference in his state at different
time and different places, because they are all one to God. This is his safety. And he
has no need for more than this.
Yet there will be temptations along the way the teacher of God has yet to travel, and
he has need of reminding himself throughoutthe day of his protection. How can he do
this, particularly during the time when his mind is occupied with esternal things? He
can but try, and his success depends on his conviction that he will succeed. He must
be sure success is not of him, but wil be given him at any time, in any Place and
circumstance he calls for it. There are times his certainty will waver, and the instant
this occurs he wil return to earlier attempts to place reliance on himself alone. Forget
not this is magic, enough for GodÂ´s teacher, because it is not enough for GodÂ´s Son.
The avoidance of magic is the avoicance of temptation. For all temptation is nothing
more that the attempt to substitute another will for GodÂ´s. These attempts may indeed
seem frightening, but they are merely pathetic. They can have no effects; neither good
nor bad, neither rewarding nor demanding sacrifice, healing nor destructive, quieting
nor fearful. When all magic is recongnized as merely nothing, the teacher of God has
reached the most advanced state. All intermediate lessons will but lead to this, and bring
this goal nearer to recognition. For magic of any kind, in all its forms, simply does nothing.
Its powerlessness is the reason it can be so easily escaped. What hs no effects can hardly
terrify. There is no substitue for the Will of God. In simple statement, it is to this fact that
the teacher of God devotes his day. Each substitute he may accept as real can but deceive
him. But he is safe from all deception if he so decides. Perhaps he needs to remember,
"God is with me. I cannot be decieved." Perhaps he prefers other words, or only one, or
none at all. Yet each temptation to accept magic as true must be abandoned through his
recognition, not that it is fearful, not that it is sinful, not that it is dangerous, but merely that
it is meaningless. Rooted in sacrifice and separation, two aspects of one errror and no more,
he merely chooses to give up all that he never had. And for this "sacrifice" is Heaven restored
to his awareness.
It is not this an exchange that you would want? The world would gladly make it, if it knew it
could be made. It is godÂ´s teachers who must teach it that it can. And so it is their function
to make sure that they have learned it. No risk is possible throughout the day except to
put your trust in magic, for it is only this that leads to pain. "There is no will but GodÂ´s."
His teachers know that this is so, and have learned that everything but this is magic.
All belief in magic is maintained by just one simple-minded illusion; - that it works.
All through his training, every day and every hour, and even every minut and second,
must GodÂ´s teachers learn to recognize the forms of magic and perceive their
meaninglessness. Fear is withdrawn form them, and so they go. And thus the gate
to Heaven is reopened, and its light can shine again on an untroubled mind.

Love

IA56

25th April 2016, 05:52 AM

HOW DO GOD`S TEACHERS DEAL WITH MAGIC THOUGHTS?

This is crucial question both for teacher and pupil. If this issue is mishandled,
the teacher of God has hurt himself and has also attacked his pupil. This
strenghterns fear, and makes the magic seem quite real to both of them. How
to deal with magic thus becomes a major lesson for the teacher of God to
master. His first responsibility in this is not to attack it. If a magic thought
arouses anger in any form, GodÂ´s teacher can be sure that he is strengthening
his own belief in sin and has condemned himself. He can be sure as well that
he has asked for depression, pain, fear and disaster to come to him. Let him
remember, then, it is not this that he would teach, because it is not this that
he would learn.
There is, however, a temptation to respond to magic in a way that reinforces it.
Nor is this always obvious. It can, in fact, be easily concealed a wish to help.
It is this double wish that makes the help of little value, and must lead to
undesired outcomes. Nor should it be forgotten that the outcome that results
will always come to teacher and to pupil alike. How many times has it been
emhasized that you give but to yourself? And where could this be better shown
than in the kinds of help the teacher of God gives to those who need his aid?
Here is his gift most clearly given him. For he will give only what he has chosen
for himself. And in this gift is his judgment upon the holy Son of God.
It is easiest to let terror be corrected where it is most apparent, and errors can
be recognized by their results. A lesson truly taught can lead to nothing but
release for teacher and pupil, who have shared in one intent. Attack can enter
only if perception of separate goals has entered. And this must indeed have
been the case if the result is anything but joy. The single aim of the teacher
turns the divided goal of the pupil into one direction, with the call for help
becoming his one appeal. This then is easily responded, to with just one answer,
and this answer will enter the teacherÂ´s mind unfailingly. From there it shines
into his pupilÂ´s mind, making it one with his.
Perhaps it will be helpful to remember that no one can be angry at a fact. It is
always an interpretation that gives rise to negative emotions, regardless of their
seeming justification by what appears as facts. Regardless, too, of the intensity
of the anger that is aroused. It may be merely slight irritation, perhaps too mild
to be even clearly recognized. Or it may also take the form of intense rage,
accompanied by thoughs of violence, fantaisied or apparently acted out. It does
not matter. All of these reactions are the same. They obscure the truth, and this
can never be a matter of degree. Either truth is apparent, or it is not. It cannot be
partially recognized. Who is unaware of truth must look upon illusions.
Anger is response to perceivd magic thoughts is a basic cause of fear. Consider
what this reaction means, and its centrality in the worldÂ´s thought system becomes
apparent. A magic thought, by its mere presence, acknowledges a separation from
God. It states, in the clearest form possible, that the mind which believes it can succeed.
That this can hardly be a fact is obvious. Yet that it can be believed as fact is equally
obvious. And herein lies the birthplace of guilt. Who usurps the place of God and takes
if for himself now has a deadly "enemy." And he must stand alone in his protection, and
make himself a shield to keep him safe from fury that can never be abated, and vengeance
that can never be satisfied.
How can this unfair battle be resolved? Its ending is inevitable, for its outcome must be death.
How, then, can one belive in oneÂ´s defenses? Magic again must help. Forget the battle. Accept
it as a fact, and then forget it. Do not remember the impossible odds against you. Do not
remember the immensity of the "enemy," and do not think about your fraity in comparison.
Accept your separation, but do not remeber how it came about. Believe that you have won it,
but do not reatin the slightest memory of Who your great "opponent" really is. Projecting your
"forgetting" onto Him, it seems to you He has forgotten, too.
But what will now be your reaction to all magic thoughts? They can but reawaken sleeping
guilt, which you have hidden but have not let go. Each one says clearly to your frightened
mind. "You have usurped the place of God. Think not He has forgotten." Here we have
the fear of God most starkly represented. For in that thought has guilt already raised madness
to the throne of God Himself. And now there is no hope. Exept to kill. Here is salvation now.
An angry father pursues his guilty son. Kill or to be killed, for here alone is choice. Beyond this
there is none, for what was done cannot be doen without. The stain of blood can never be
removed, and anyone who bears this stain on him must meet with death.
Into this hopless situation God sends His teachers. They bring the light of hope from God Himself.
There is a way in which escape is possible. It can be learned and taught, but it requires patience
and abudant willingness. Given that, the lessonÂ´s manifest simplicity stands out like an intense
white light against black horizon, for such it is. If anger comes from an interpretation and not a
fact, it is never justified. Once this is even dimly grasped, the way is open.
Now it is possible to take the next step. The intepretation can be changed at last. Magic thoughts
need not lead to condemnation, for they can not really have the power to give rise to guilt. And
so they can be overlooked, and thus forgotten in the truest sense.
Madness but seems terrible. In truth it has no power to make anything. Like the magic which
becomes its servant, it neither attacks nor protects. To see it and to recognize its thought
system is to look on nothing. Can nothing give rise to anger? Hardly so.
Remember, then, teacher of God, that anger recognizes a reality that is not there; yet is the
anger certain witness that you do believe in it as fact. Now is escape impossible, until you
see you have responded to your own interpretation, which you have projected on an outside
world. Let this grim sword be taken from you now. There is no death. This sword does not exist.
The fear of God is causeless. But His Love is Cause of Everything beyond all fear, and thus
forever real and aways true.

Love

IA56

26th April 2016, 06:46 AM

HOW IS CORRECTION MADE?

Correction of a lasting nature, - and only this is true correction, - cannot be made
until the teacher of God has ceased to confuse interpretation with fact, or illusion
with truth. If he argues with his pupil about a magic thought, attacks it, tries to
eastablish its error or demonstrate its falsity, he is but witnessing to its reality.
Depression is then inevitable, for he has "proved," both to his pupil and himself,
that it is their task to escape form what is real. And this can only be impossible.
Reality is changeless. Magic thoughts are but illusions. Otherwise salvation would
be only the same age-old impossible dream in but another form. Yet the dream of
salvation has new content. It is not the form alone in which the difference lies. GodÂ´s
teacherÂ´s major lesson is to learn how to react to magic thoughts wholly without anger.
Only in this way can they proclaim the truth about themsleves. Through them, the Holy
Spirit can now speak of the reality of the Son of God. Now He can remain the world of
sinlessness, the one unchanged, unchangeable condition of all that God created. Now
He can speak the Word of God to listening ears, and bring ChristÂ´s vision to eyes that see.
Now is He free to teach all minds the truth of what they are, so they will gladly be returned
to Him. And now is guilt forgiven, overlooked completely in His sight and in GodÂ´s Word.
Anger but screehes, "Guilt is real"! Reality is blotted out as this insane belief is taken as
replacement for GodÂ´s Word. The bodyÂ´s eyes now "see"; its ears alone can "hear." Its
little space and tiny breath become the measure of reality. And truth becomes diminutive
and meaningless. Correction has one answer to all this, and to the world that rests on this:

"You but mistake interpretation for the truth. And you
are wrong. But a mistake is not a sin, nor has reality
been taken from its throne by your mistakes. God
regins forever, and His laws alone prevail upon you
and upon the world. His Love remains the only thing
there is. Fear is illusion, for you are like Him."

In order to heal, it thus becomes essential for the teacher of God to let all his
own mistakes be corrected. If he senses even the faintest hint of irritation in
himself as he responds to anyone, let him instantly realize that he has made
and interpretation that is not true.
Then let him turn within to his Eternal Guide, and let Him judge what the
response shuld be. So is he healed, and in his healing is his pupil healed
with him. The sole responsibility of GodÂ´s teachers is to accept the Atonement
for himself. Atonement means correction, or the undoing of errors. When this
has been accomplished, the teacher of God becomes a miracle worker by
definition. His sins have been forgiven him, and he no longer condemns himself.
How can he then condemn anyone? And who is there whom his forgiveness can
fail to heal?

Love

IA56

27th April 2016, 06:54 AM

WHAT IS JUSTICE?

Justice is the divine correction for injustice. Injustice is the basis for all the judgments
of the world. Justice corrects the interpretations to which injustice give rise, and cancels
them out. Neither justice nor injustice exists in Heaven, for error is impossible and correction
meaningless. In this world, however, forgiveness depends on justice, since all attack can
only be unjust. Justice is the Holy SpiritÂ´s verdict upon the world. Except in His judgment
justice is impossible, for no one in the world is capable of making only just interpretations
and laying all injusstice aside. If GodÂ´s Son were fairly judged, there would be no need for
salvation. The thought of separation would have been forever inconceivable.
Justice, like its opposite, is an interpretation. It is, however, the one interpretation that leads
to truth. This become possible because, while it is not true in itself, justice includes nothing
that opposes truth. There is no inherent conflict between justice and truth; one is but the first
small step in the direction of the other. The path becomes quite different as one goes along.
Nor could all the magnificence, the grandeur of the scene and the enormous opening vistas
that rise to meet one as the journey continues, be foretold from the outset. Yet even these,
whose splendor reaches indescribable heights as one proceeds, fall short indeed of all that
wait when the pathway ceases and time ends with it. But somewhere one must start.
Justice is the beginning.
All concepts of your brothers and yourself; all fears of future states and all concerns about
the past, stem from injustice. Here is the lens which, held before the bodyÂ´s eyes, distorts
perception and brings withness of the distorted world back to the mind that made the lens
and holds it very dear. Selectively and arbitrarily is every concept of the world built up in just
this way. "Sins" are perceived and justified by careful selectivity in which all thought of wholeness
must be lost. Forgiveness has no place in such a scheme, for not one "sin" but seems forever true.
Salvation is GodÂ´s justice. It restores to your awareness the wholeness of the fragments you perceive
as broken off and separate. And it is this that overcomes the fear of death. For separate. And it is this
overcomes the fear of death. For separate fragments must decay and die, but wholeness is immortal.
it remains forever and forever like it s Creator, being one with Him.
GodÂ´s Judgment is His justice. Onto this, - a Jugment wholly lacking in condemnation; an evalution based
entirely on love, - you have projected your injustice, giving God the lens of warped perception through
which you look. Now it belongs to Him and not to you. You are afraid of Him, and do not see you hate
and fear your Self as enemy.
Pray for GodÂ´s justice and do not confuse His mercy with your own insanity. Perception can make whatever
picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect.
GodÂ´s justice points to heaven just because it is entirely impartial. It accepts all evidence that is brought
before it, omitting nothing and assessing nothing as separate and apart from all the rest. From this one
standpoint does it judge, and this alone. Here all attack and condemnation becomes meaningless and
indefinsible. Perception rests, the mind is still, and light returns again. Vision is now restored. What had been
lost has now been found. The peace of God descends on all the world, and we can see. And we can see!

Love

IA56

28th April 2016, 04:12 AM

WHAT IS THE PEACE OF GOD?

It has been said that there is a kind of peace that is not of this world. How is it recognized?
And being found, how can it be retained? Let us consider each of these questions separately,
for each reflects a different step along the way.
First, how can the peace of God be recognized? GodÂ´s peace is recognized at first by one thing;
in every way it is totally unlike all previous experinces. It calls to mind nothing that went before.
It brings with it no past associations. It is a new thing entirely. There is a contrast, yet, between
this thing and all the past. But strangely, it is not a contrast of true differences. The past just slips
away, and it is its place is everlasting quiet. Only that. The contrast first percieved has merely gone.
Quiet has reached to cover everything. How is this quiet found? No one can fail to find it who but
seeks out its conditions. GodÂ´s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny the
peace exists. Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is
meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. In this condition, peace cannot be found. Therefore,
forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. More than this, given forgiveness
there must be peace. For what except attack will lead to war? And what but peace is opposite to war?
Here the initial contrast stands out clear and apparent. Yet when peace is found, the war is meaningless.
And it is conflict now that is perceived as nonexistent and unreal.
How is the peace of God retained, once it is found? Returning anger, is whatever form, will drop the heavy
curtain once again, and the belief that peace cannot exist will certainly return. War is again accepted as the
one reality. Now must you once again lay down your sword, although you do not recognize that you have
picked it up again. But you will learn, as you remember even faintly now that happiness was yours without it,
that you must have taken it again as your defense. Stop for a moment now and think of this: It conflict what
you want, or is GodÂ´s peace the better choice? Which gives you more? And tranquil mind is not a little gift
Would you not rather live than choose to die?
Living is joy, but death can only weep.
You see in death escape from what you made. But this you do not see; that you made death, and it is but
illusion of and end. Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies. Life has no opposite,
for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided death ends life.
Forgive the world, and you will understand that every thing that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He
did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. In this one sentence is our practicing giving its
one direction. And in this one sentence is the Holy SpiritÂ´s whole curriculum specified exactly as it is.
What is the peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His Will is wholly without opposite. There
is no thought that contradicts His Will, yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be reality.
In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours. Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek
to keep it for Himself. Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him? The Will of God is one and
all there is. This is your heritage. The universe beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive,
belong to you. GodÂ´s peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you remember Him.

Love

It

IA56

29th April 2016, 05:21 PM

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF WORDS IN HEALING?

Strictly speaking, words play no part at all in healing. The motivating factor is prayer,
or asking. What you ask for you recieve. But this refers to the prayer of the heart, not
to the words you use in praying. Sometimes the words and the prayer are contradicotry;
sometimes they agree. It does not matter. God does not understand words, for they were
made by separated minds to keep them in the illusion of separation. Words can be helpful,
particularly for the beginner, in helping concentration adn facilitating the exclusion, or at
least the Control, of extraneous thoughts Let us not forget, however, the words are but
symbol of symbols. They are thus twice removed from reality?
As symbols, words have quite specific references. Even when they seem most abstract,
the Picture that comes to mind is apt to be very concrete. Unless a specific referent does
occur to the mind in conjunction, with the word, the word has little or no practical meaning,
and thus cannot help the healing process. The prayer of the heart does not really ask for
concrete things. It Always requests some kind of expereince, the specific things asked
for being the bringers of the desired experience in the opinion of the asker. The words, then,
are symbols for the things asked for, but the things themselves but stand for the experiences
that are hoped for. The prayer for things of this world will bring experiences of this world. If
the prayer or the heart asks for this, this will be given becuase this will be recieved. It is
impossible that the prayer of the heart remains unanswered in the perception of the one who
asks. If he asks for the impossible, if he wants what does not exist or seeks for illusions in his
heart, all this becomes his own. The power of his decision offers it to him as he requests. Herein
lie hell and Heaven. The sleeping Son of God has but this power left to him. It is enough.
His words do not matter. Only the Word of God has any meaning, because it symbolizes that which
has no human symbols at all. The Holy Spirit alone understands what this Word stands for.
And this, too, is enough.
Is the teacher of God, then, to avoid the use of words in his teaching? No, indeed! There are many
who must be reached through words, being as yet unable to hear in silence. The teacher of God must,
however, learn to use words in a new way. Gradually, he learns how to let his words be chosen for him
by ceasing to decide for himself what he will say. This process is merely a special case of the lesson in
the workbook that says, "I will step back and let Him lead the way." The teacher of God accepts the words
which are offered him, and gives as he recieves. He does not control the direction of his speaking. He
listens and hears and speaks. A major hindrance in this aspect of his Learning is the teacher of GodÂ´s fear
about the validity of what he hears. And what he hears may indeed be quite startling. It may also seem to
be quite irrelevant to the presented problem as he perceives it, and may, in fact, confront the teacher with
a situation that appears to be very embarresing to him. All these are jugments, that have no value.
They are his own, coming from shabby self-preception which he would leave behind. Judge not the words
that come to you, but offer them is confidence. They are far wiser than your own. GodÂ´s teachers have GodÂ´s
Word behind their symbols. And He Himself gives to the words they use the Power of His Spirit, raising them
from menaningless symbols to the Call of Heaven itself.

Love

IA56

30th April 2016, 07:51 AM

HOW ARE HEALING AND ATONEMENT RELATED?

Healing and Atonement are not related; they are identical. There is no order of
difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of Atonement. It is the one
complete concept possible in this world, because it is the source of a wholly
unified perception. Partial Atonement is a meaningless idea, just as special
areas of hell in Heaven are inconceivable. Accept Atonement and you are
healed. Atonement is the Word of God. Accept His Word and what remains
to make sickness possible? Accept His Word and every miracle has been
accomplished. To forgive is to heal. The teacher of God has taken accpting
the Atonement for himself as his only function. What is there, then, he cannot
heal? What miracle can be withheld from him?
The progress of the teacher of God may be slow or rapid, depending on whether
he recongizes the AtonementÂ´s inclusiveness, or for a time excludes some problem
areas from it. In some cases, there is a sudden and complete awareness of the
perfect applicability of the lesson of the Atonement to all situations, but this is
comparatively rare. The teacher of God may have accepted the function God has
given him long Before he has learned all that his accetance holds out to him. It is
only the end that is certain. Anywhere along the way, the necessary realization of
inclusiveness may reach him. If the way seems long, let him be content. He has
decided on the direction he wants to take. What more was asked of him? And having
done what was required, would God withhold the rest?
That forgiveness is healing needs to be understood, if the teacher of God is to make
progress. The idea that a body can be sick is a central concept in the egoÂ´s thought
system. This thought gives the body autonomy, separates it from mind, and keeps the
idea of attack inviolate. If the body could be sick Atonement would be impossible. A body
that can order a mind to do as it sees fit could merely take the Place of God and prove
salvation is impossible.What, then, is left to heal?The body has become lord of the mind.
How could the mind be returned to the Holy Spirit unless the body is killed? And who would
want salvation at such a price?
Certainly sickness does not appear to be a decision. Nor would anyone actually Believes he
wants to be sick. Perhaps he can accept the idea in theory, but it is rarely if ever consistently
appliedto all specific forms of sickness, both in the individualÂ´s perception of himself and of all
others as well. Nor is it at this level that the teacher of God calls forth the miracle of healing. He
overlooks the mind and body, seeing only the face of Christ shining in front of him, correcting
all mistakes and healing all perception. Healing is the result of the recognition, by GodÂ´s teacher,
of who it is that is in need of healing. This recognition has no special reference. It is true of all
things that God created. In it are all illusions healed.
What a teacher of God fails to heal, it is because he has forgotten Who he is. AnotherÂ´s sickness
thus becomes his own. In allowing this to happen, he has identified with anotherÂ´s ego, and has
thus confused him with a body. In so doing, he has refused to accept the Atonement for himself,
and can hardly offer it to his brother in ChristÂ´s Name. He will, in fact, be unable to recognize his
brother at all, for his Father did not create bodies, and so he is seeing in his brother only the unreal.
Mistakes do not correct mistakes, and distorted perception does not heal. Step back now, teacher of
God. You have been wrong. Lead not the way, for you have lost it. Turn quickly to your Teacher, and
let yourself be healed.
The offer of Atonement is universal. It is equally applicable to all individuals in all circumstances. And
in it is the power to heal all individuals of all forms of sickness. Not to Believe this is to be unfair to God,
and thus unfaithful to Him. A sick person Perceives himself as separate from God. Would you see him
as separate from you? It is your task to heal the sense of separation that has made him sick. It is your
function to recognize for him that what he Believes about himself is not the truth. It is your forgiveness
that must show him this. Healing is very simple. Atonement is received and offered. Having been received,
it must be accepted. It is in the receiving, then, that healing lies. All else must follow from this single purpose.
Who can limit the power of God Himself? Who, then, can say which one can be healed of what, and what
must remain beyond GodÂ´s Power to forgive? this is insanity indeed. It is not up to GodÂ´s teachers to set
limit upon Him, because it is not up to them to judge His Son. And to judge His Son is to limit his Father.
Both are equally meaningless. Yet this will not be understood until GodÂ´s teacher recognizes that they are the
same mistake. Herein does he recieve Atonement, for he withdraws his judgment from the Son of God,
accepting him as God created him. No longer does he stand apart from God, determining where healing
should be given and where it should be withheld. Now can he say with God, "This is my beloved Son,
created perfect and forever so."

Love

IA56

1st May 2016, 05:19 AM

DOES JESUS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN HEALING?

GodÂ´s gifts can rarely be received directly. Even the most advanced of GodÂ´s
teachers will give way to temptation in this world. Would it be fair if their pupils
were denied healing because of this? The Bible says. "Ask in the Name of Jesus
Christ." Is this merely an appeal to magic? A name does not heal, nor does an
invocation call forth any special power. What does it mean to call on Jesus Christ?
What does calling on his Name confer? Why is the appeal to him part of healing?
We have repreatedly said that one who has perfectly accepted the Atonement for
himself can heal the world. Indeed, he has already done so. Temptation may recur
to others, but never to this One. He has become the risen Son of God. He has overcome
death because he has accepted Life. He has recognized himself as God created him,
and in so doing he has recognized all living things as part of him. There is now no limit
on his power, because it is the Power of God. So has his name become the Name of
God, for he no longer sees himself as separate from Him.
What does this mean for you? It means that in remembering Jesus you are remembering
God. The whole relationship of the Son to the Father lies in him. His part in the Sonship
is also yours, and his completed learning guarantees your own success. Is he still available
for help? What did he say about this? Remember his promises, and ask yourself honestly
whether it is likely that he will fail to keep them. Can God fail His Son? And can one who is
one with God be unlike Him? Who transcends the body has transcended limitation. Would
the greatest teacher be unavailable to those who follow him?
The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this
world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods
to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbor for the Word of God, so close to what it
stands for that the little space between the two is lost, the moment that the Name is called
to mind. Remembering the Name of Jesus Christ is to give thanks for all the gifts that God
has given you. And gratitude to God becomes the way in which He is remembered, for love
cannot be far behind a gratetful heart and thankful mind. God enters easily, for these are the
true conditions for your homecoming.
Jesus has led the way, Why would you not be grateful to him? He has asked for love, but only
that he might give it to you. You do not love yourself. But in his eyes your loveliness is so complete
and flawless that he sees in it an image of his Father. You become the symbol of his Father here
on earth. To you he looks for hope, because in you he sees no limit and no stain to mar your
beautiful perfection. In his eyes ChristÂ´s vision shines in perfect constancy. He has remained with
you. Would you not learn the lesson of salvation through his learning? Why would you choose to
start again, when he has made the journey for you?
No one on earth can grasp what Heaven is, or what its one Creator really means. Yet he have
witnesses. It is to them that wisdom should appeal. There have been those whose learning far
exceeds what we can learn. Nor would we teach the limitations we have laid on us. No one who
has become a true and dedicated teacher of God forgets his brothers. Yet what he can offer
them is limited by what he learns himself. Then turn to one who laid all limits by, and went beyond
the farthest reach of learning. He will take you with him, for he did not go alone. And you were with
him then, as you are now.
This course has come from him because his words have reached you in a language you can love
and understand. Are other teachers possible, to lead the way to those who speak in different tongues
and appeal to different symbols? Certainly there are. Would God leave anyone without a very present
help in time of trouble; a savior who can symbolize Himself? Yet do we need a many-faceted curriculum,
not because of content differences, but because symbols must shift and change to suit the need.
Jesus has come to answer yours. In him you find GodÂ´s Answer. Do you, then, teach with him, for he is
with you; he is always here.

Love

IA56

2nd May 2016, 04:32 AM

IS REINCARNATION SO?

In the unltimate sense, reincarnation is impossible. There is no past or future,
and the idea of birth into a body has no meaning either once or many times.
Reincarnation cannot, then, be true in any real sense. Our only question should
be, "Is the concept helpful?" And that depends, of course, on what it is used for.
If it is used to strengthenthe recognition of the eternal nature of life, it is helpful
indeed. Is any other question about the reality useful in lighting up the way? Like
many other beliefs, it can be bitterly misused. At least such misuse offers pre-
occupation and perhaps pride in the past. At worst, it induces inertia in the present.
In between, many kinds of folly are possible.
Reincarnation would not, under any circumstances, be the problem to be dealt with
now. If it were responsible for some of the difficulties the individual faces now, his
task would still be only to escape from them now. If he is laying the groundwork for
a future life, he can still work out his salvation only now. To some, there may be
confort in the concept, and if it heartens them its value is self-evident. It is certain,
however, that the way to salvation can be found by those who believe in reincarnation
and by those who do not. The idea cannot, therefore, be regarded as essetial to the
curriculum. There is always some risk in seeing the present in terms of the past. There
is always some good in any thought which strenghtens the idea that life and the body
are not the same.
For our purposes, it would not be helpful to take any definite stand in reincarnation. A
teacher of God should be as helpful to those who believe in it as to those who do not.
If a definite stand were required of him, it would merely limit his usefulness, as well as
his own decision-making. Our course is not concerned with any concept that is not
acceptable to anyone, regardless of his formal beliefs. His ego will be enough for him
to cope with, and it is not the part of wisdom to add sectarian controversis to his burdens.
Nor would there be an advantage in his premature acceptance of the course merely
because it advocates a long-held belief of his own.
It cannot be too strongly emphasized that this course aims at a complete reversal of
thought. When this is finally accomplished, issues such as the validity of reincarnation
become meaningless. Until then, they are likely to be merely controversial. The teacher
of God is, therefore, wist to step away from all such questions, for he has to teach and
learn apart from them. He should both learn and teach that theoretical issues but waste
time, draining it away from its appointed purpose. If there are aspects to any concept or
belief that will be helpful, he will be told about it. He will also be told how to use it. What
more need he know?
Does this mean that the teacher of God should not believe in reincarntion himself, or
discuss it with others who do? The answer is, certainly not! If he does believe in rein-
carnation, it would be a mistake for him to renounce the belief unless his internal
Teacher so advised. And this is most unlikely. He might be advised that he is misusing
the belief in some way that is detrimental to his pupilÂ´s advance or his own. Reinterpretation
would then be recommended, because it is necessary. All that must be recognized, however,
is that birth was not the beginning, and death is not the end. Yet even this much is not
required of the beginner. He need merely accept the idea that what he knows is not necessarily
all there is to learn. His journey has begun.
The emphasis of this course always remains the same; - it is at this moment that complete
salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept it. This is still your one
responsibility. Atonement might be equated with total escape from the past and total lack of
interest in the future. Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no
other time. No teaching that does not lead to this is of concern to GodÂ´s teachers. All beliefs
will point to this if properly interpreted. In this sense, it can be said that their truth lies in their
usefulness. All beliefs that lead to progress should be honored. This is the sole criterion this
course requires. No more than this is necessary.

Love

IA56

3rd May 2016, 03:37 AM

ARE "PSYCHIC" POWERS DESIRABLE?

The answer to this question is much like the preceding one. There are, of course,
no "unnatural" powers, and it is obviously merely and appeal to magic to make up
a power that does not exist. It is equally obvious, however, that each individual has
many abilities of which he is unaware. As his awaeness increases, he may well develop
abilities that seem quite startling to him. Yet nothing he can do can compare even in the
slightest with the glorious surprise of rememebering Who he is. Let all his learning and
all his efforts be content to be delayed by the little ones that may come to him on the
way.
Certainly there are many "psychic" powers that are clearly in line with this course.
Communication is not limited to the smal range of channels the world recognizes. It is
were, there would be little point in trying to teach salvation. It would be impossible to do so.
The limits the world places on communication are the chief barriers to direct experience
the Holy Spirit, Whose Presence is always there and Whose Voice is available but for the
hearing. These limits are placed out of fear, for without them the walls that surround all the
separate place of the world would fall at the holy sound of His Voice. Who transcends these
limits in any way is merely becoming more natural. He is doing nothing special, and there is
no magic in his accomplishments.
The seemingly new abilities that may be gathered on the way can be very helpful. Given to
the Holy Spirit, and used under His direction, they are valuable teaching aids. To this, the
question of how they arise is irrelevent. The only important consideration is how they are used.
Taking them as ends in themselves, no matter how this is done, will delay progress. Nor does
their value lie in proving anything; achievements from the past, unusal attunement with the
"unseen," or special favors from God. God gives no special favors, and no one has any powers
that are not available to everyone. Only by tricks of magic are special powers "demonstrated."
Nothing that is genuine is used to deceive. The Holy Spirit is incapable of deception, and He can
use only genuine abilities. What is used for magic is useless to Him. But what He uses cannot be
used for magic. There is, however, a particular appeal in unusual abilities that can be curiously
tempting. Here are strengths which the Holy Spirit wants and needs. Yet the ego sees in these
same strengths and opportunity to glorify itself. Strengths turned to weakness are tragedy indeed.
Yet what is not given to the Holy Spirit must be given to weakness, for what is withheld from love
is given to fear, and will be fearful in consequence.
Even those who no longer value material things of the world may still be decieved by "psychic"
powers. As investment has been withdrawn from the worldÂ´s material gifts, the ego has been
seriously threatened. It may still be strong enough to rally under this new temptation to win back
strength by guile . Many have not seen through the egoÂ´s defenses here, although they are not
particularly subtle. Yet, given a remaining wish to be deceived, deception is made easy. Now the
"power" is no longer a genuine ability, and cannot be used dependably. It is almost inevitable that,
unless the individual changes his mind about its purpose, he will bolster his "powerÂ´s" uncertainties
with increasing deception.
Any ability that anyone develops has the potentiality for good. To this there is no exception. And the
more unusual and unexpected the power, the greater its potential usefulness. Salvation has need of
all abilities, for what the world would destroy the Holy Spirit would restore. "Psychic" abilities have
been used to call upon the devil, which merely means to strengthen the ego. Yet here is also a great
channel of hope and healing in the Holy SpiritÂ´s service. Those who have developed "psychic" powers
have simply let some of the limitations they laid upon their minds be lifted. It can be but further limitations
they lay upon themselves if they utilize their increased freedom for greater imprisonment. The Holy Spirit
needs these gifts, and those who offer them to Him and Him alone go with ChristÂ´s gratitude upon their
hearts, and His holy sight not far behind.

Love

IA56

4th May 2016, 03:16 AM

CAN GOD BE REACHED DIRECTLY?

God indeed can be reached directly, for there is no distance between Him and His Son.
His awareness is in everyoneÂ´s memory, and His Word is written on everyoneÂ´s heart.
Yet this awareness and this memory can arise across the treshold of recongition only
where all barriers to truth have been removed. In how many is this the case? Here, then,
is the role of GodÂ´s teachers. They, too, have not attained the necessary understanding
as yet, but they have joined with others. This is what sets them apart from the world.
And it is this that enables others to leave the world with them. Alone they are nothing.
But in their joining is the Power of God.
There are those who have reached God directly, retaining no trace of worldly limits and
remembering their own Identity perfectly. These might be called theTeachers of teachers
because, although they are no longer visible, their image can yet be called upon. And they
will appear when and where it is helpful for them to do so. To those to whom such appearences
would be frightening, they give their ideas. No one can call on them in vain. Nor is there anyone
of whom they are unaware. All needs are known to them , and all mistakes are recognized and
overlooked by them. The time will come when this is understood. And meanwhile, they give all
their gifts to the teachers of God who look to them for help, asking all things in their Name and in
no other.
Somethimes a teacher of God may have a brief experince of direct union with God. In this world,
it is almost impossible that this endure. It can, perhaps, be won after much devotion and dedication,
and then be maintained for much of the time on earth. But this is so rare that it cannot be considered
a realistic goal. If it happens, so be it. If it does not happen, so be it as well. All worldly states must be
illusory. If God were reached directly in sustained awareness, the body would not be long maintained.
Those who have laid the body down merely to extend their helpfulness to those remaining behind are
few indeed. And they need helpers who are still in bondage and still asleep, so that by their awakening
can GodÂ´s Voice be heard.
Do not despair, then, because of limitations. It is your function to escape from them, but not to be without
them. If you would be heard by those who suffer, you must speak their language. If you would be a savior,
you must understand what needs to be escaped . Salvation is not theoretical. Behold the problem, ask for
the answer, and then accept it when it comes. Nor will its coming be long delayed. All the help you can accept
will be provided, and not one need you have will not be met. Let us not, then, be too concerned with goals for
which you are not ready. God takes you where you are and welcome you. What more could you desire, when
this is all you need?

Love

IA56

5th May 2016, 07:34 AM

WHAT IS DEATH?

Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem. It is not madness to think
of life as being born, aging, losing vitality, and dying in the end? We have asked
this question before, but now we need to consider it more carefully. It is the one
fixed, unchangeable belief of the world that all things in it are born only to die. This
is regarded as "the way of nature" not to be raised to question, but be accepted as the
"natural" law of life.
The cyclical, the changing and unsure;the undependable and the unsteady, waxing
and waning in a certain way upon a certain path, - all this is taken as the Will of God.
And no one asks if a being Creator could will this.
In this perception of the universe as God created it, it would be impossible to think of
Him as loving. For who has decreed that all things pass away, ending in dust and
disappontment and despair, can but be feared. He holds your little life in his hand but
by a thread, ready to break it off without regret or care, perhaps today.
Or if he waits, yet is the ending certain. Who loves such a god knows not of love, because
he has denied that life is real. Death has become lifeÂ´s symbol. His world is now a battle-
ground, where contradiction reigns and opposites make endless war. Where there is death
is peace impossible.
Death is the symbol of the fear of God. His Love is blotted out in the idea, which holds it from
awareness like a shield held up to obscure the sun. The grimness of the symbol is enough to
show it cannot coexist with God. It holds an image of the Son of God in which he is "laid to rest"
in devastationsÂ´s arms, where worms wait to greet him and to last a little while by his destruction.
Yet the worms as well are doomed to be destroyed as certainly. And so do all things live because
of death. Devouring is natureÂ´s "law of life" God is insane, and fear alone is real.
The curious belief that there is part of dying things that may go on apart from what will die, does not
proclaim a loving God nor re-establish any grounds for trust. If death is real for anything, there is no
life. Death denies life. But if there is reality in life, death is denied. No compromise in this is possible.
There is either a god of fear or One of Love. The world attempts a thousand compromises, and will
attempt a thousand more. Not one can be acceptable to GodÂ´s teachers, because not one could be
acceptable to God. He did not make death because He did not make fear. Both are equally meaningless
to Him.
The "reality" of death is firmly rooted in the belief that GodÂ´s son is a body. And if God created bodies,
death would indeed be real. But God would not be loving. There is no point at which the contrast between
the perception of the real world and that of the world of illusions becomes more sharply evident. Death is
indeed the death of God, if He is Love. And now His Own Creation must stand in fear of Him. He is not
Father, but destroyer. He is not Creator, but avenger. Terrible His Thoughts and fearful His image.
To look on His Creation is to die.
"And the last to be overcome will be death." Of course! Without the idea of death there is no world. All dreams
will end with this one. This is salvationÂ´s final goal; the end of all illusions. And in death are all illusions born.
What can be born of death and still have Life? But what is born of God and still can die? The inconsistencies,
the compromises and the rituals the world fosters in its vain attempts to cling to death and yet to think love real
are mindless magic, ineffectual and meaningless. God is, and in Him all created things must be eternal. Do you
not see that otherwise He has an opposite, and fear would be as real as love?
Teacher of God, your one assignment would be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part.
Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. What seems to die has but been misperceived
and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusions be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this;
be not deceived by the "reality" of any changing form. Truth neither moves nor waves nor sinks down to death and
dissolution. And what is the end of death? Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and
forever. Nothing but this. But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this.

Love

IA56

6th May 2016, 08:27 AM

WHAT IS THE RESURRECTION?

Very simply, the resurrection is the overcoming or surmounting of death.
It is a reawakening or a rebirth; a change of mind about the meaning of
the world. It is the acceptance of the Holy SpiritÂ´s interpretation of the
worldÂ´s purpose; the acceptance of the Atonement for oneself. It is the end
of dreams of misery, and the glad awareness of the Holy SpiritÂ´s final dream.
It is the recongition of the gifts of God. It is the dream in which the body functions
perfectly, having no function except communication . It is the lesson in which
learning ends, for it is consummated and surpassed with this it is the invitation
to God to take His final step. It is the relinquishment of all other purposes, all other
interests, all other wishes and all other concerns. It is the single desire of the Son
for the Father.
The resurrection is the denial of death, being the assertion of life. Thus is all the
thinking of the world reversed entirely. Life is now recongized as salvation, and pain
and misery of any kind perceived as hell. Love is no longer feared, but gladly welcomed.
Idols have disappeared, and the remembrance of God shines unimpeded across the
world. ChristÂ´s face is seen in every living thing, and nothing is held in darkness, apart
from the light of forgiveness. There is no sorrow still upon the earth. The joy of Heaven
has come upon it.
Here the curriculum ends. From here on, no directions are needed. Vision is wholly corrected
and all mistakes undone. Attack in meaningless and peace has come. The goal of the curriculum
has been achieved. Thoughts turn to Heaven and away from hell. All longings are satisfied, for
what remains unanswered or incomplete? The last illusions spreads across the world, forgiving
all things and replacing all attack. The whole reversal is accomplished. Nothing is left to contradict
the Word of God. There is no opposition to the truth. And now the truth can come at last. How
quickly will it come as it is asked to enter and envelop such a world!
All living hearts are tranquil with a stir of deep anticipation, for the time of everlasting things is now
at hand. There is no death. The Son of God is free. And in his freedom is the end of fear. No hidden
places now remain one earth to shelter sick illusions, dreams of fear and misperceptions of universe.
All things are seen in light, and in the light their purpose is transformed and understood. And we, GodÂ´s
children, rise up from the dust and look upon our perfect sinlessness. The song of Heaven sounds
around the world, as it is lifted up and brought to truth.
Now there are no distrinctions. Differences have disappeared and Love looks on Itself. What further sight
is needed? What remains that vision could accomplish? We have seen the face of Christ, His sinlessness,
His Love behind all forms, beyond all pruposes. Holy are we because His holiness has set us free indeed!
And we accept His holiness as ours; as it is. As God created us so will we be forever and forever, and we
wish for nothing but His Will to be our own. Illusions of Another will are lost, for unity of purpose has been
found.
These things await us all, but we are not prepared as yet to welcome them with joy. As long as any mind
remains possessed of evil dreams, the thought of hell is real. GodÂ´s teachers have the goal of wakening
the minds of those asleep, and seeing there the vision of ChristÂ´s face to take the place of what they dream.
The thought of murder is replaced with blessing. Judgment is laid by, and given Him Whose function
judgment is. And in His final judgment is restored the truth about the holy Son of God. He is redeemed, for
he has Heard GodÂ´s Word and understood its meaning. He is free because he let GodÂ´s Voice proclaim the
truth. And all he sought before to crusify are resurrected with him, by his side, as he prepares with them to
meet his God.

Love

IA56

7th May 2016, 08:56 AM

AS FOR THE REST ----

This manual is not intended to answer all questions that both teacher and pupil may raise.
In fact, it covers only a few of the more obvious ones, in terms of a brief summary of some
of the major concepts in the text and the workbook. It is not a substitute for either, but merely
a supplement. While it is called a manual for teachers, it must be remembered that only time
divides teachers and pupils, so that the difference is temporary by definition. In some cases,
it may be helpful for the pupil to read the manual first. Others might do better to begin with the
workbook. Still others may need to start at the more abstract lever of the text.
Which is for which? Who would profit more from prayers alone? Who needs but a smile, being
as yet unready for more? No one should attempt to answer these questions alone. Surely no
teacher of God has come this far without realizing that. The curriculum is highly individualized,
and all aspects are under the Holy SpiritÂ´s particular care and guidance. Ask and He will answer.
The responsibility is His, and He alone is fit to assume it. To do so is His function. To refer the
question to Him is yours. Would you want to be responsible for decisions about which you under-
stand so little. Be glad you have a Teacher Who cannot make a mistake. His answers are always
right. Would you say that of yours?
There is another advantage, - and a very important one, - in reffering decisions to the Holy Spirit
with increasing frequency. Perhaps you have not thought of this aspect, but its centrality is obvious.
To follow the Holy SpiritÂ´s guicance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the
Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum. The imagined usurping of functions not yours own is
the basis of fear. The whole world you see reflects the illusion that you have done so, making fear
inevitable. To return the function to the One to Whom it belongs is thus the escape from fear. And
it is this that lets the memory of love return to you. Do not, then, think that following the Holy SpritÂ´s
guidance is necessary merely because of your own inadequacies. It is the way out of hell for you.
Here again is the paradox often referred to in the course. To say, "Of my self I can do nothing" is to
gain all power. And yet it is but a seeming paradox. As God created you, you have all power. The
image you made of yourself has none. The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you. The image you
made does not. Yet, despite its obvious and complete ignorance, this image assumes it knows all
things because you have given that belief to it. Such is your teaching, and teaching of the world that
was made to uphold it. But the Teacher Who knows the truth has not forgotten it. His decisions bring
benefit to all, being wholly devoid of attack. And therefore incapable of arousing guilt.
Who assumes a power that he does no possess is deceiving himself. Yet to accept the power given him
by God is but to acknowledge his Creator and accept His gifts. And His gifts have no limit. To ask the
Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Does this mean that you cannot say
anything without consulting Him? No, indeed! That would hardly be practical, and it is the practical with
which this course is most concerned. If you have made it a habit to ask for help when and where you can,
you can be confident that wisdom remember God when you can throughout the day, ask the Holy SpiritÂ´s
help when it is feasible to do so, and thank Him for His guidance at night. And your confidence will be well
founded indeed.
Never forget that the Holy Spirit does not depend on your words. He understands the request of your heart,
and answers them. Does this mean that, while attack remains attractive to you, He will respond with evil?
Hardly! For God has given Him the power to translate your prayers of the heart into His language. He under-
stands that an attack is a call for help. And He responds with help accordingly. God would be cruel if He let
your words replace His Own. A loving father does not let his child harm himself, or choose his own destruction.
He may ask for injury, but his father will protect him still. And how much more than this does your Father love
His Son?
Remember you are His completion and His Love. Remember your weakness is His strength. But do not read this
hastily or wrongly. If His strength is in you, what you perceive as your weakness is but illusion. And He has given
you the means to prove it so. Ask all things of His Teacher, and all things are given you. Not in the future but
immediately; now. God does not wait, for waiting implies time and He is timeless. Forget your foolish images,
your sense of frailty and your fear of harm, your dreams are danger and selected "wrongs." God knows but His
Son, and as he was created so he is. In confidence I place you in His hands, and I give thanks for you that this is so.

And now in all your doings be you blessed.
God turns to you for help to save the world.
Teacher of God, His thanks He offers you,
And all the world stands silent in the grace
You bring from Him. You are the Son He loves,
And it is given you to be the means
Through which His Voice is Heard around the world,
To close all things of time; to end the sight
Of all things visible; and to undo
All things that change. Through you is ushered in
A world unseen, unheard, yet truly there.
Holy are you, and in your light the world
Reflects you holiness, for you are not
Alone and friendless. I give thanks for you,
And join you efforts on behalf of God,
Knowing they are on my behalf as well,
And for all those who walks to God with me.

AMEN

It is left clarifications of terms, are anyone interested me to write them too??

Love

Timothy

7th May 2016, 11:10 AM

IA,

I'd be very interested in seeing the clarifications. TY ;)

susan

7th May 2016, 05:57 PM

Yes please IA.

IA56

8th May 2016, 04:22 AM

CLARIFICARION OF TERMS
Introduction

This is not a course of philosphical speculation, nor is it concerned with precise terminology.
It is concerned only with Atonement, or the correction of perception. The means of the Atonement
is forgiveness. The structure of "individual consciousness" is essentially irrelevant because it is a
concept representing the "original error" of the "original sin." To study the error itself does not lead
to correction, if you are indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. And it is just this process of
overlooking at which the coure aims.
All terms are potentially controversial, and those who seek controversity will find it. Yet those who
seek clarification will find it as well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversity, recog-
nizing that it is a defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver. Theological considerations
as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or
rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary.
It is this experience toward which the course is dericted. Here alone consisstency becomes possible
because here alone uncertainty ends.
This course remains within the ego framework, where it is needed. It is not concerned with what is beyond
all error because it is planned only to set derection towards it. Therefore it uses words, which are sybolic,
and cannot express what lies beyond symbols. It is merely the ego that questions because it is only the
ego that doubts. The course merely gives another answer, once a question has been raised. However, this
answer does not attempt to resort to inventiveness or ingenuity. These are attributes of the ego .
The course is simple. It has only function and one goal. Only in that does it remain wholly consistent because
only that can be consistent.
The ego will demand many answers that this course does not give. It does not recognize as questions the mere
form of a question to which an answer is impossible. The ego may ask, "How did the impossible occur?", "To
what did the impossible happen?", and may ask this in many forms. Yet there is no answer; only an expereince.
Seek only this, and do not let theology delay you.
You will notice that the emphasis on structual issue in the course is brief and early. Afterwards and soon, it drops
away to make for the central teaching. Since you have asked for clarification, however, there are some of the
terms that are used.

MIND - SPIRIT

The term mind is used to represent the activating agent of spirit, supplying its creative energy. When the term is
capitalized it refers to God or Christ (i.e., the Mind of God or the Mind of Christ).
Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. The unified spirit is GodÂ´s one Son , or Christ.
In this world because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. Nor do their minds seem to be
joined. In this illusory state, the concept of an "individual mind" seens to be meaningful.
It is therefore decribed in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.
Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other
part as well. The term "soul" is not used except in direct Biblical quatations because of its higly controversial nature.
It would, however, be an equivalent of "spirit," with the understanding that, being of God, it is eternal and was never born.
The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions. Spirit retains the potential for creating, but its Will,
which is GodÂ´s, seems to be imprisoned while the mind is not unified. Creation continues unabated because that is the
Will of God. This Will is Always unfied and therefore has no meaning in this world. It has no opposite and no degrees.
The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit,
forgives the world, and through ChristÂ´s vision sees the real world in its place.
Wrong-mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions; perceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and
death as real. Both this world and the real world are illusions because right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what
never happened. Therefore it is not the One-mindedness of the Christ Mind, Whose Will is one with GodÂ´s.
In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices. Will is not
involved in perception at any level, and has nothing to do with choice. Consiousness is the receptive mechanism, receiving
messages from above or below; from the Holy Spirit or the ego.
Consiousness has levels and awareness can shift quite dramatically, but it cannot transcend the perpetual realm. At its highest
it becomes aware of the real world, and can be trained to do so increasingly. Yet the very fact that it has levels and can be
trained demonstrates that it cannot reach knowledge.

Love

IA56

9th May 2016, 03:09 AM

THE EGO - THE MIRACLE

Illusions will not last. Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world.
It is the egoÂ´s world because of this. What is the ego? But a Dream of what you
really are. A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He
created not. It is a thing of madness, not reality at all. A name for namelessness
is all it is. A symbol of impossibility; a choice for options that do not exist. We name
it but to help us understand that it is nothing but an ancient thought that what is made
has immortality. But what could come of this except a dream which, like all dreams,
can only end in death?
What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something. In a world
of form the ego cannot be denied for it alone seems real. Yet could GodÂ´s Son as He
created him abide in form or in a world of form? Who asks you to define the ego and
explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure
that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so.
There is no definition for a lie that seves to make it true. Nor can there be a truth that lies
conceal effectively. The egoÂ´s unreality is not denied by words nor is its meaning clear
because its nature seems to have form. Who can define the undefinable? And yet there
is an answer even here.
We cannot make a definition for what the ego is, but we can say what it is not. And this is
shown to us with perfect clarity. It is from this that we deduce all that the ego is. Look at its
opposite and you can see the only answer that is meaningful.
The egoÂ´s opposite is every way, - in origin, effect and consequence - we call a miracle. And
here we find all that is not the ego in this world. Here is the egoÂ´s opposite and here alone we
look on what the ego was, for here we see all that it seemed to do, and cause and its effects
must still be one.
Where there was darkness now we see the light. What is the ego? What the darkness was.
Where is the ego? Where the darkness was. What is it now and where can it be found? Nothing
and nowhere. Now the light has come: its opposite has gone without a trace. Where evil was
there now is holiness. What is the ego? What the evil was. Where is the ego? In an evil dream
that but seemed real while you were dreaming it. Where there was crusifixtion stands GodÂ´s Son.
What is the ego? Who has need to ask? Where is the ego? Who has the need to seek an illusion
now that dreams are gone? What is a miracle? A dream as well. But look at all the aspects of this
dream and you will never question any more. Look at the kindly world you see extend before you
as you walk in gentleness. Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty
of Heaven and the surety of peace. And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and
finally passed by.
This was the ego - all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying
and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. This
terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.
Is not a song like this what you would hear? Would it not answer all you thought to ask, and even make
the question meaningless?
Your question have no answer, being made to still GodÂ´s Voice, Which asks of everyone one question only:
"Are you ready yet to help Me save the world?" Ask this instead of what the ego is, and you will see a sudden
brightness cover up the world the ego made. No miracle is now withheld from anyone. The world is saved
from what you thought it was. And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.
The miracle forgives; the ego damns. Neither need be defined except by this. Yet could a definition be more
sure, or more in line with what salvation is? Problem and answer lie together here, and having met at last
the choice is clear. Who choose hell when it is recogized? And who would not go on a little while when it is
given him to understand the way is short and Heaven is his goal?

Love

IA56

10th May 2016, 05:46 AM

FORGIVENESS - THE FACE OF CHRIST

Forgiveness is for God and toward God but not of Him. It is impossible to think of
anything He created that could need forgiveness. Forgiveness, then, is an illusion,
but because of its purpose, which is the Holy SpiritÂ´s, it has one difference. Unlike
all other illusions it leads away from error and not towards it.
Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing
can bridge the gap between their perception and the truth. They cannot go directly
from perception to knowledge because they do not think it is their will to do so.
This makes God appear to be an enemy instead of what He really is. And it is just this
insane perception that makes them unwilling merely to rise up and to return to Him in peace.
And so they need an illusion of help because they are helpless; a Thought of peace because
they are in conflict. God knows what His Son needs before he asks. He is not at all concerned
with form, but having given the content it is His Will that it be understood. And that suffices.
The form adaps itself to need; the content is unchanging, as eternal as its Creator.
The face of Christ has to be seen before the memory of God can return. The reason is obvious.
Seeing the face of Christ involves perception. No one can look on knovledge. But the face of
Christ is the great symbol of forgiveness. It is salvation. It is the symbol of the real world. Whoever
looks on this no longer sees the world. He is as near to Heaven as is possible outside the gate.
Yet from this gate it is no more than just a step inside. It is the final step. And this we leave go God.
Forgiveness is a symbol, too, but as the symbol of His Will alone it cannot be divided. And so the
Unity that it reflects becomes His Will. It is the only thing still in the world in part, and yet the bridge
to Heaven.
GodÂ´s Will is all there is. We can but go from nothingness to everything; from hell to Heaven. Is this
a journey? No, not in truth, for truth goes nowhere. But illusions shift from place to place; from time
to time. The final step is also but a shift. As a perception it is part unreal. And yet this part will vanish.
What remains is peace eternal and the Will of God.
There are no wishes now for wishes change. Even the wishes-for can become unwelcome. That must
be so because the ego cannot be at peace. But Will is constant, as the gift of God. And what He gives
is always like Himself. This is the purpose of the face of Christ. It is the gift of God to save His Son.
But look on this and you have been forgiven.
How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself
reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness. Now you are holy and percieve
it so. And now the mind returns to its Creator; the joining of the Father and the Son, the Unity of
unities that stands behind all joining but beyond them all. God is not seen but only understood. His
Son is not attacked but recognized.

Love

IA56

11th May 2016, 06:05 AM

TRUE PERCEPTION - KNOWLEDGE

The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He creates must
be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. Some
things will last in time a little while longer than others. But the time will come when all things
visible will have an end.
The bodyÂ´s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the
illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. And so they do. For everything
they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin an guilt. While everything that
God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.
Knowledge is not the rememdy for false perception since, being another level, they can never meet.
The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for
the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness,
salvation. Atonement, true perception, all are one. They are the one beginning, with the end to lead
to Oneness far beyond themselves. True perception is the means by which the world is saved from
sin, for sin does not exist.
And it is this that true perseption sees.
The world stands like a block before ChristÂ´s face. But true perception looks on it as nothing more
than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it can last no longer than an instant. It is seen at last
for only what it is. And now it cannot fail to disappear, for now there is an empty place made clean
and ready. Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ appears, and in that instant is the
world forget, with time forever ended as the world spins into nothingness from where it came.
A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies. But forgiveness looks past bodies. This
is its holiness; this is how it heals. The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were
a body is sin possible. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt away. And
once all guilt is gone what more remains to keep a separated world in place? For place has gone
as well, along with time. Only the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not
remain where separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not.
And what you then will overlook will not be understandable to you, just as its precense once had
been your certainty. This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen
within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear. For there the altar to the Son is set, and there his
Father is remembered. Here are all illusions brought to truth and laid upon the altar. What is seen
outside must lie beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while sin is
seen as outside? What remedy can guilt expect? But seen within your mind, guilt and forgiveness
for an instant lie together, side by side, upon one altar. There at last are sickness and its single
remedy joined in one healing brightness. God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete.
And now GodÂ´s knowledge, changeless, certain, pure and wholly undertandable, enters its kingdom.
Gone is perception, false and true alike. Gone is forgiveness, for its task is done. And gone are bodies
in the blazing light upon the altar to the Son of God. God knows it is His Own, as it is his. And here they
join, for here the face of Christ has shone away timeÂ´s final instant, and now is the last perception of the
world without a purpose and without a cause. For where GodÂ´s memory has come at last there is no
journey, no belief in sin, no walls, no bodies, and the grim appeal of guilt and death is there snuffed out
forever.
O my brother, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in
the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. Hallowed your name and His, for they
are joined here in this holy place. Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness;
out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear an given back to love.

Love

IA56

12th May 2016, 05:59 AM

JESUS - CHRIST

There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. But there is need for help
beyond yourself as you are circimscribed by false beliefs of your Identity, Which God alone
established in reality. Helpers are given you in many forms, althrough upon the altar they
are one. Beyond each one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change. But they
have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal. Their names
are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself employs. God does not help
because He knows no need. But He creates all Helpers of His Son while he believes his fantasies
are true. Thank God for them for they will lead you home.
The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers
and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God.
The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body
that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions
and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without
accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their
own illusions.
In his complete identification with the Christ - the perfect Son of God, His one Creation and His happiness,
forever like Himself and one with Him - Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to
follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. He made a
clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that
it is impossible to kill GodÂ´s Son; nor can his Life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
And therefore all your sins have been forgiven, because they carried no effects at all. And so they were but
dreams. Arise with him who showed you this because you own him this who shared your dreams that they
might be dispelled. And shares them still, to be at one with you.
Is he the Christ? O yes, along with you. His little life on Earth was not enough to teach the Mighty lesson that
he learned for all of you. He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. And when you join
your will with his, your sight will be his vision for the Eyes of Christ are shared. Walking with him is just at natural
as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. Some bitter idols have
been made of him who would be only brother to the world. Forgive him you illusions, and behold how dear a
brother he would be to you. For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God.
Is he GodÂ´s only Helper? No, indeed. For Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can
be recongized but Jesus is for you the bearer of ChristÂ´s single message of the Love of God. You need no other.
It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you
yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. Yet
still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this:

"There is no death beause the Son of God is like
his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal
Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come
with me instead to share the resurrection of GodÂ´s
Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent
to you to care for as I care for you."

Love

IA56

13th May 2016, 04:08 AM

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Jesus is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, Whom he called down upon the earth
after he ascended into Heaven, or became completely identified with the Christ,
the Son of God as He created him. The Holy Spirit, being a creation of the One
Creator, creating with Him and in His likeness or spirit, is eternal and has never
changed. He was "called down upon the earth" in the sense that it was now possible
to accept Him and to hear His Voice. His is the Voice of God, and has therefore taken
form. This form is not His reality, which God alone knows along with Christ, His real
Son, Who is part of Him.
The Holy Spirit is decribed throughout the course as giving us the answer to the separation
and bringing the plan of Atonement to us, establishing our particular part in and showing
us exactly what it is. He has established Jesus as the leader in carrying out His plan since
he was the first to complete his own part perfectly. All Power in Heaven and earth is therefore
given him and he will share it with you when you have completed yours. The Atonement
principle was given to the Holy Spirit long before Jesus set it in motion.
The Holy Spirit is decribed as the remaining Communication link between God and His separated
Sons. In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. He knows
because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. He is the great
correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. He
is the light in which the forgiven world is percieved; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. He
never forgets the Creator of His creation. He never forgets the Son of God. Hever forgets your.
And He brings the Love of your Father to you in an eternal shining that will never be obliterated
because God has put it there.
The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind. He represents your
Self and your Creator, Who are one. He speaks for God and also for you, being joined with both.
And therefore it is He Who proves them one. He seems to be a Voice, for in that form He speaks
GodÂ´s Word to you. He seems to be a Guide through a far country, for you need that form of help.
He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have. But He is not deceived when you
perceive your self entrapped in needs you do not have. It is from these He would deliver you. It is
from these that He would make you safe.
You are His manifestation in this world. Your brother calls to you to be His Voice along with him.
Alone he cannot be the Helper of GodÂ´s Son for he alone is functionless. But joined with you he
is the shining Savior of the world, Whose part in its redemption you have made complete. He offers
thanks to you as well as him for you arose with him when he began to save the world. And you will
be with him when time is over and no trace remains of dreams of sprite in which you dance to
deathÂ´s thin melody. For in its place the hymn to God is heard a little while. And then the Voice is gone,
no longer to take form but to return to the eternal Formlessness of God.

Love

IA56

14th May 2016, 04:24 AM

EPILOQUE

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go
and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do.
When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could
despair when Hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how to be
deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this
and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end?
The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands Before a lifeless image when a step away the
Holy of the Holies opens up and ancient door that leads beyond the world?
You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help
to roll the stone away, and it is done accroding to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the
end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining ray that held it safe within eternity
and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.
Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have
begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again.
Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. Look up and see His Word among the
starts, where He has set your name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world
would hide but God would have you see.
Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our Gratitude to Him Who called to us and
helped us hear His Call. And then let us raise and go in faith along the way to Him. Now we are sure
we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never
lose the way again. The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, through it seems
to be unsung forever. What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world, knowing
that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of the rebirth will last forever. We had lost our way
but He has found it for us. Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celeberate salvation and
the end of all we thought we made. The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God
is welcomed and His Son with Him. We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, and He give thanks to us.
The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last.

End of the book, hope you enjoy it as much as me :-)

Love
ia

Timothy

27th May 2016, 10:48 PM

Nicely done....thank you. What's next? ;)

IA56

28th May 2016, 04:54 AM

Nicely done....thank you. What's next? ;)

:shrug:..we have to waite and see :-)

Love
ia

IA56

9th August 2016, 08:21 AM

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

139. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and know me.
2. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shined as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13. For thou has possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my motherÂ´s womb.
14. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth.
16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Love

Timothy

6th February 2017, 01:40 PM

:shrug:..we have to waite and see :-)

Love
ia

Yup ;)

IA56

6th February 2017, 02:03 PM

Yup ;)

Dear Timothy :thumbsup:

Tears has broken outwordly....thank you for reminding me about my own thread...I now remember in what kind of energy I was when this started and the urge to start this thread.

I am starting to look into something new...this has bean brought to me already for some years ago...but I did say NO NO NO...but I must look into it for my own sake...and not let fear control me...

I was in a dream shown a symbol ...2 cherubs holding a cross in between them....reminding me...my path....I think...

E who is physiotherapis, psychologist..and yoga instructor...she has her teacher i India...she asked me Skype with her teacher...and I said NO...time Went and her teacher R come here to stay with her in 2 years....I did meet him...and you can see in my Dream diary the reslut...the blue veiled man ...I did lift the veil because I did not hear a Word he was saying....I told him this next time I met him....my resistance has bean tremendeous....but now I have made apointment on next saturday to meet him and get yoga instructions ...I want to give it a go...I cant let my fear control me..

So...this thread includes my confident and my anchor...I have to return to it.

I see now clearly my Dream and my fear what is expressed in the thread of Good and Evil....This new what is starting on saturday is what has knocked me of my guard and the unknown what the yoga instructor from India represents for me....I am prepering me for the new to start in my Life. He is Hindu....

I have experienced that Christ and Buddha is just the same...I do not know anything about a Hindu...it is total new to me....it might be the same aswell...I must dare to experience it...and I will...but it awakens fear in me for some reason....I am sorry to say...and I am appologizing already.

Love
ia

Timothy

6th February 2017, 02:06 PM

Apologize for what? We should always confidently proceed with an aire on the side of caution.

IA56

6th February 2017, 02:16 PM

Apologize for what? We should always confidently proceed with an aire on the side of caution.

Well, when you put it that way....I might have developed self-protection...and maybe it is not fear.....but caution....I was in shame to say NO to EÂ´s teacher...that I am ungreatful....this was the reason I felt I have to apologize.

Love
ia

IA56

8th February 2017, 08:54 AM

I might already have found my path??...somehow I still keep searching ...I believe I am searching similarities in other belief system so I can say...it is the same but different name....so the war can stop and the fightings about who are right and point others to be wrong...

I need to have done something to unite then divide.....we all are brothers and sisters....we should help eachothers and not kill and hate.

Why is it so hard to LOVE??

Love
ia

IA56

10th February 2017, 10:32 AM

Timothy

10th February 2017, 11:33 AM

That's the ticket...IA...You....just as you are. Being of help to anyone/God doesn't mean we aren't subject to our proclivities and inclinations, on the contrary...it seems that even moreso these "habits" objectively become our most humbling teachers. I reckon we perfect our graceful walkin' nn standin' graciousness from trippin' up nn fallin' down.

IA56

12th February 2017, 10:14 AM

Timothy

12th February 2017, 06:09 PM

No, it's quite the contrary.

IA56

13th February 2017, 08:38 AM

No, it's quite the contrary.

Hi Timothy,

So did you ment that if I fail and fall down, to turn it to Life experiences and learn from them instead, and not see them as unsuccesfullnes??

Love
ia

Timothy

13th February 2017, 01:55 PM

Hi Timothy,

So did you ment that if I fail and fall down, to turn it to Life experiences and learn from them instead, and not see them as unsuccesfullnes??

Love
ia

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