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"All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. No idol takes His place. Look not to idols. Do not seek outside yourself. Let us forget the purpose of the world the past has given it. For otherwise, the future will be like the past and but a series of depressing dreams in which all idols fail you one by one, and you see death and disappointment everywhere." A COURSE IN MIRACLES CH 29 THE AWAKENING, VIII "The Lingering Illuusion" paragraph 48
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L e s s o n 310
In fearlessness and love I spend today.
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
"This day, my Father, would I spend with You,
as You have chosen all my days should be.
And what I will experience 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
your 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 that I be free today."
We spend this day together, you and I,
and all the world joins with us in our song
of thankfulness 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.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM December 30, 1970 |
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What is the Second Coming?
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IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Christ's Second Coming, which is sure as God,
is merely the correction of mistakes
and the return of sanity. It is
a part of the condition which restores
the never-lost, and re-establishes
what is forever and forever true.
It is the invitation to God's Word
to take illusion's place; the willingness
to let forgiveness rest upon all things
without exceptions and without reserve.
It is this all-inclusive nature of
Christ'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 God's creation must be limitless.
Forgiveness lights the Second Coming's way
because it shines on everyone as well.
*And thus is oneness recognized at last. --*this line not in Notes--
The Second Coming ends the lessons which
the Holy Spirit teaches, making way
for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends
in one last summary which will extend
beyond itself, and reaching 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 everyone 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 one Identity, in Which all 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 this 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 God's Will,
and join together in Its holy light.
Behold, the Son of God is one in us,
and we can reach our Father's Love through him.
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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ACIM Edmonton - Sarah's Reflections
Lesson 310
In fearlessness and love I spend today.
Sarah's Commentary:
The section of the text that speaks eloquently to this lesson is in Chapter 21.IV. "The Fear to Look Within". Here Jesus talks about how the ego depends on sin and guilt. We seem to get a certain comfort in the idea of our imperfection. From a religious perspective it is imperative that people declare often that they are sinners. In fact, in traditional Christianity, this has to be affirmed in order to be released. The ego is comfortable with this idea. To the ego, the 'enemy' is our innocence. The question that makes the ego tremble, according to this section, of the Course is "What if you looked within and saw no sin?"
And in our journey with the Course we have started on this process by looking at our insanity and recognizing its madness. We have accepted the Holy Spirit's purpose in the part of our mind where reason lies. But resistance still comes up which is why we sometimes withdraw from our practice, or we stop meditating because of our fear and the defenses that we put up to maintain our image.
In Chapter 14.IX "The Reflection of Holiness" there is a discussion about bringing the darkness to the light. The underlying idea is that we have hidden the power and glory God gave us by covering it over with our ego's darkness. Then, we stored this darkness away behind dark doors. And then we placed guards at the doors-the sentinels of darkness, which are simply our own willingness to guard those doors at all costs. What we need to do is dismiss the sentinels, open the doors, haul out the darkness, and bring it to the Holy Spirit's light. This is very much in keeping with the lesson yesterday "I will not fear to look within today".
The ego cannot bear to look on the light. It senses that there is something greater than it that threatens its existence. "What if you looked within and saw no sin? This "fearful" question is one the ego never asks. And you who ask it now are threatening the ego's whole defensive system too seriously for it to bother to pretend it is your friend." (T.21.IV.3.2)
Those few sentences really start to give us some insight that the mind is starting to question, "What if I am innocent? What if I am sinless and guiltless?" The ego is terrified of this questioning. It wants to get back to questioning the trivial things of the world. "What if I could do this better? What if I could accomplish this? Can I get a better illusion?" "How can I solve this problem?" That is the kind of questioning the ego can stand because it truly wants to keep us distracted with the issues, problems and so-called pleasures of this world. As long as we keep focused on the world, we will not be threatening the ego identity and will seem to stay safe within the confines of its requirements that we "seek but do not find". To find the truth of our eternal and holy reality would be to undo the ego identity.
"Your liberation still is only partial; still limited and incomplete, yet born within you. Not wholly mad, you have been willing to look on much of your insanity and recognize its madness. Your faith is moving inward, past insanity and on to reason. And what your reason tells you now the ego would not hear. The Holy Spirit's purpose was accepted by the part of your mind the ego knows not of. No more did you. And yet this part, with which you now identify, is not afraid to look upon itself. It knows no sin. How, otherwise, could it have been willing to see the Holy Spirit's purpose as its own." (T.21.IV.4.1)
This paragraph reminds me of a quote that I was reading the other day about a diagram of a spiral. The quote was, "You have not yet gone back far enough." It is quite a big step just to begin to question everything, but the pain and the resistance comes from "you have not yet gone back far enough". The only release that will be a true release will be when you get to the beginning. It is like, as you are questioning things, you are winding down, down and further down. Resistance will seem to come up time and time again because we are still invested in the ego. And the ego has convinced us that God's punishment awaits us for what we have done.
In Chapter 21 Jesus urges us to "follow in gladness the way to certainty" which is the way inward. We have, for a long time, achingly longed for the sweet music of the forgotten song "the song it longed to hear since first the ego came into your mind". "the song of freedom, which sings the praises of another world, brings to it hope of peace". It is the ego's rule that has kept this song from our awareness for so long. And now we open to the truth. And we do it through joining in relationship. We do it by becoming aware of the judgments and anger we have with others and being willing to look at them without judgment. We so often will withhold forgiveness with the thought that it will not be accepted and that the response we will get will still be attack. Yet it is actually our projection of our own desire for space in the relationship that keeps our forgiveness from them. While we are told that we can choose salvation now, we think it is something that may happen in the future. Why not give up what we are defending now? When we give up a major way that we defend, then a whole lot of related defenses go with it. And with that, space is made for the love that we are to come streaming through.
And now we end the section on "What is the Second Coming?" Here Jesus urges the kind of fearlessness that was introduced in lesson 309. He urges our determination to go deep into the mind where we will have the experience of the holy instant which is outside of time and where joy and innocence abides. It reminds us of the sweetness that is there in remembering who we are. It frees us from the chains that bind us to the guilt and sin on which the ego thrives. It welcomes the love into our hearts. It is a day in which we can truly rejoice in the truth of our creation by spending it with our Creator! "In fearlessness and love I spend today". Lesson 244 reminds us that we are safe wherever we may be for He is with us always. His Love and our safety are one. There is no need for fear or doubt. We simply cannot be endangered or experience unhappiness when we belong to Him and are forever beloved. "No storms can come into the hallowed haven of our home. In God we are secure" (244.2.2)
In paragraph 5 of "What is the Second Coming?" we are reminded to pray for it to come soon. Why wait? To wait is to delay and keep our suffering. To wait is to keep our brothers bound. We are needed, he tells us. It is not only about our own awakening and finding our own peace and joy. It is about his need for our "eyes and ears and hands and feet" (5.2) and "It needs your voice" (5.3) Our healing is needed in the world. It is all about doing God's Will and to do so is to rejoice. This is where our happiness comes from. And thus we can hasten the Second Coming which is the recognition that we are all One.
When we have truly welcomed love into our hearts there is no room for fear. Both cannot coexist. "This day will be your sweet reminder to remember You." (1.4) And it is a day of gratitude. Jesus speaks to us when he says he is with us in spending this day together with us. "All of the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness 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." We can have this kind of day everyday. It is not dependent on the circumstances of our lives or what is happening in our day. It is a day outside of time where the experience of peace and joy is not about the things of time. It is only about the truth about ourselves where we are set free.
So whatever form your fear comes in, whether worry, anxiety, apprehension, distress of any kind, recognize that you can be set free because it is God's Will. It is a beautiful prayer that we can pray throughout the day reminding ourselves that joy is not about the events of the day but comes from Heaven to us, bypassing all obstacles if we are willing to release them. Notice that Jesus is joining us in thankfulness to God for this day. We can be thankful when we spend the day with Jesus as our teacher who shows us how to look at the events of this world as a way to get back to our mind so that we can make another choice. We can look at how to spend the day so we can learn the lessons of forgiveness. "And all the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness and joy to Him Who gave salvation to us and Who set us free".
Love and blessings, Sarah
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Chapter Twenty Nine
The Awakening
VIII. The Lingering Illusion
43 Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in His place. There is no other answer you can substitute and find the happiness His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But it is given you to know the truth and not to seek for it outside yourself.
44 No one who comes here but must still have hope, some lingering illusion, or some dream that there is something outside of himself that will bring happiness and peace to him. If everything is in him, this cannot be so. And therefore by his coming, he denies the truth about himself and seeks for something more than everything, as if a part of it were separated off and found where all the rest of it is not. This is the purpose he bestows upon the body-that it seek for what he lacks and give him what would make himself complete. And thus he wanders aimlessly about in search of something that he cannot find, believing that he is what he is not.
45 The lingering illusion will impel him to seek out a thousand idols and to seek beyond them for a thousand more. And each will fail him, all excepting one; for he will die and does not understand the idol that he seeks is but his death. Its form appears to be outside himself. Yet does he seek to kill God's Son within and prove that he is victor over him. This is the purpose every idol has, for this the role that is assigned to it, and this the role that cannot be fulfilled.
46 Whenever you attempt to reach a goal in which the body's betterment is cast as major beneficiary, you try to bring about your death. For you believe that you can suffer lack, and lack is death. To sacrifice is to give up and thus to be without and to have suffered loss. And by this giving up is life renounced. Seek not outside yourself. The search implies you are not whole within and fear to look upon your devastation and prefer to seek outside yourself for what you are.
47 Idols must fall because they have no life, and what is lifeless is a sign of death. You came to die, and what would you expect but to perceive the signs of death you seek? No sadness and no suffering proclaims a message other than an idol found that represents a parody of life which in its lifelessness is really death, conceived as real and given living form. Yet each must fail and crumble and decay because a form of death cannot be life, and what is sacrificed cannot be whole.
48 All idols of this world were made to keep the truth within from being known to you and to maintain allegiance to the dream that you must find what is outside yourself to be complete and happy. It is vain to worship idols in the hope of peace. God dwells within, and your completion lies in Him. No idol takes His place. Look not to idols. Do not seek outside yourself. Let us forget the purpose of the world the past has given it. For otherwise, the future will be like the past and but a series of depressing dreams in which all idols fail you one by one, and you see death and disappointment everywhere.
49 To change all this and open up a road of hope and of release in what appeared to be an endless circle of despair, you need but to decide you do not know the purpose of the world. You give it goals it does not have, and thus do you decide what it is for. You try to see in it a place of idols found outside yourself, with power to make complete what is within by splitting what you are between the two. You choose your dreams, for they are what you wish, perceived as if it had been given you. Your idols do what you would have them do and have the power you ascribe to them. And you pursue them vainly in the dream because you want their power as your own.
50 Yet where are dreams but in a mind asleep? And can a dream succeed in making real the pictures it projects outside itself? Save time, my brothers; learn what time is for. And speed the end of idols in a world made sad and sick by seeing idols there. Your holy minds are altars unto God, and where He is, no idols can abide. The fear of God is but the fear of loss of idols. It is not the fear of loss of your reality. But you have made of your reality an idol which you must protect against the light of truth. And all the world becomes the means by which this idol can be saved. Salvation thus appears to threaten life and offer death.
51 It is not so. Salvation seeks to prove there is no death, and only life exists. The sacrifice of death is nothing lost. An idol cannot take the place of God. Let Him remind you of His love for you, and do not seek to drown His Voice in chants of deep despair to idols of yourself. Seek not outside your Father for your hope. For hope of happiness is not despair.
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