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This is shown by the fact that you react to your interpretations as if they were correct. You may then control your reactions behaviorally, but not emotionally.
Everything else is an appeal for healing and help, regardless
of the form it takes.
Your response will therefore be inappropriate to reality as it is, but not to your perception of it.
It is only this that makes you willing to engage in endless “battles” with reality, in which you deny the reality of the need for healing by making it unreal.
Fear and love are the only emotions of which you are capable.
And thus will you learn of Him how to replace your dream of separation with
the fact of unity.
The Way to Remember God
The task of the miracle worker thus becomes to deny the denial of truth.
You cannot lay aside the obstacles to real vision without looking upon them, for to lay aside means to judge against. If you will look, the Holy Spirit will judge, and He will judge truly. Yet He cannot shine away what you keep hidden, for you have not offered it to Him and He cannot take it from you.
You cannot sell your soul, but you can sell your awareness of it.
You do not want the world. The only thing of value in it is whatever part of it you look upon with love. This gives it the only reality it will ever have. Its value is not in itself, but yours is in you. As self-value comes from self-extension, so does the perception of self-value come from the extension of loving thoughts outward. Make the world real unto yourself, for the real world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and so it belongs to you.
remember. The awakening of His Son begins with his investment in the real world, and by this he will learn to re-invest in himself.
When you have seen this real world, as you will surely do, you will remember Us. Yet you must learn the cost of sleeping, and refuse to pay it. Only then will you decide to awaken.
What is one cannot be perceived as separate, and the denial of the separation is the reinstatement of knowledge.
VII. Looking Within
Miracles demonstrate that learning has occurred under the right guidance, for learning is invisible and what has been learned can be recognized only by its results. Its generalization is demonstrated as you use it in more and more situations. You will recognize that you have learned there is no order of difficulty in miracles when you apply them to all situations.
You cannot see the invisible. Yet if you see its effects you know it must be there.
The Holy Spirit is invisible, but you can see the results of His Presence, and through them you will learn that He is there.
You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you can see His manifestations. And unless you do, you will not realize He is there. Miracles are His witnesses, and speak for His Presence.
Whose manifestations would you see?
Yet seeking and finding are the same, and if you seek for two goals you will find them, but you will recognize neither.
I said before that what you project or extend is up to you, but you must do one or the other, for that is a law of mind, and you must look in before you look out. As you look in, you choose the guide for seeing. And then you look out and behold his witnesses. This is why you find what you seek.
Choice
When you want only love you will see nothing else.
The contradictory nature of the witnesses you perceive is merely the reflection of your conflicting invitations.
Remember, then, that whenever you look without and react unfavorably to what you see, you have judged yourself unworthy and have condemned yourself to death.
The ego is not a traitor to God, to Whom treachery is impossible. But it is a traitor to you who believe that you have been treacherous to your Father.
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard. The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows. And He will tell you, and then do it for you. You who are tired will find this is more restful than sleep. For you can bring your guilt into sleeping, but not into this.
Join your own efforts to the power that cannot fail and must result in peace.
Abide with me within it, as a teacher of Atonement, not of guilt.
Restore to God His Son as He created him, by teaching him his innocence.
T-14.V.11. Each one you see you place within the holy circle of Atonement or leave outside, judging him fit for crucifixion or for redemption. If you bring him into the circle of purity, you will rest there with him. If you leave him without, you join him there. Judge not except in quietness which is not of you. Refuse to accept anyone as without the blessing of Atonement, and bring him into it by blessing him. Holiness must be shared, for therein lies everything that makes it holy. Come gladly to the holy circle, and look out in peace on all who think they are outside. Cast no one out, for
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What does this mean?
The sentinels of darkness watch over it carefully, and you who made these guardians of illusion out of nothing are now afraid of them.
Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function.
The past that you remember never was, and represents only the denial of what always was.
What disappears in light is not attacked. It merely vanishes because it is not true.
In this world you can become a spotless mirror, in which the Holiness of your Creator shines forth from you to all around you. You can reflect Heaven here. Yet no reflections of the images of other gods must dim the mirror that would hold God’s reflection in it. Earth can reflect Heaven or hell; God or the ego. You need
but leave the mirror clean and clear of all the images of hidden darkness you have drawn upon it. God will shine upon it of Himself. Only the clear reflection of Himself can be perceived upon it.
Could you but realize for a single instant the power of healing that the reflection of God, shining in you, can bring to all the world, you could not wait to make the mirror of your mind clean to receive the image of the holiness that heals the world. The image of holiness that shines in your mind is not obscure, and will not change. Its meaning to those who look upon it is not obscure, for everyone perceives it as the same. All bring their different problems to its healing light, and all their problems find but healing there.
The ego is incapable of understanding content, and is totally unconcerned with it. To the ego, if the form is acceptable the content must be. Otherwise it will attack the form.
If you believe you understand something of the “dynamics” of the ego, let me assure you that you understand nothing of it. For of yourself you could not understand it. The study of the ego is not the study of the mind. In fact, the ego enjoys studying itself, and thoroughly approves the undertakings of students who would “analyze” it, thus approving its importance. Yet they but study form with meaningless content. For their teacher is senseless, though careful to conceal this fact behind impressive sounding words, but which lack any consistent sense when they are put together.
Key
As God communicates to the Holy Spirit in you, so does the Holy Spirit translate His communications through you, so you can understand them.
God has no secret communications,
semblance
The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God’s Son what his Father wills for him.
You need only recognize that everything you learned you do not want.
Ask to be taught, and do not use your experiences to confirm what you have learned. When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself:
I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.
Key phrase. Mantra
By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in your awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him.
