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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 5 "HEALING AND WHOLENESS"
VIII. TIME AND ETERNITY     
 

Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time. You have elected to be in time rather than eternity and have therefore changed your belief in your status. Yet your election is both free and alterable. You do not belong in time. Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.         

 

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1 Beginning with today, we will have a series of review periods. Each of them will cover five of the ideas already presented, starting with the first and ending with the fiftieth. There will be a few short comments after each of the ideas which you should consider in your review. In the practice periods, the exercises should be done as follows:  

 

2 Begin the day by reading the five ideas, with the comments included. Thereafter, it is not necessary to follow any particular order in considering them, though each one should be practiced at least once. Devote two minutes or more to each practice period, thinking about the idea and the related comments. Do this as often as possible during the day. If any one of the five ideas appeals to you more than the others, concentrate on that one. At the end of the day, however, be sure to review all of them once more. 

  

3 It is not necessary to cover the comments that follow each idea literally or thoroughly in the practice periods. Rather, try merely to emphasize the central point and think about it as part of your review of the idea to which it relates. 

  

4 The review exercises should be done with your eyes closed and when you are alone in a quiet place if possible. This is emphasized particularly for reviews at your stage of learning. It will be necessary, however, that you learn to require no special settings in which to apply what you have learned. You will need it most in situations which appear to be upsetting, rather than in those which already seem to be calm and quiet. 

  

5 The purpose of your learning is to enable you to bring the quiet with you and to heal distress and turmoil. This is not done by avoiding them and seeking a haven of isolation for yourself. You will yet learn that peace is part of you and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are. And finally you will learn that there is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere, as you are. 

  

6 You will note that for review purposes the ideas are not always given in quite their original form of statement. Use them as they are given here. It is not necessary to return to the original statements nor to apply the ideas as was suggested then. We are now emphasizing the relationships among the first fifty of the ideas we have covered and the cohesiveness of the thought system to which they are leading you.

     

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[36] My holiness envelops everything I see.

 

2From my holiness does the perception of the real world come. Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty. I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me. Seen through understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself. 

 

[37] My holiness blesses the world.

 

3The perception of my holiness does not bless me alone. Everyone and everything I see in its light shares in the joy it brings to me. There is nothing that is apart from this joy because there is nothing that does not share my holiness. As I recognize my holiness, so does the holiness of the world shine forth for everyone to see. 

 

[38] There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

 

4My holiness is unlimited in its power to heal because it is unlimited in its power to save. What is there to be saved from except illusions? And what are all illusions except false ideas about myself? My holiness undoes them all by asserting the truth about me. In the presence of my holiness, which I share with God Himself, all idols vanish. 

 

[39] My holiness is my salvation.

 

5Since my holiness saves me from all guilt, recognizing my holiness is recognizing my salvation. It is also recognizing the salvation of the world. Once I have accepted my holiness, nothing can make me afraid. And because I am unafraid, everyone must share in my understanding, which is the gift of God to me and to the world. 

 

[40] I am blessed as a Son of God.

 

6Herein lies my claim to all good and only good. I am blessed as a Son of God. All good things are mine because God intended them for me. I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of who I am. My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things. His care for me is infinite and is with me forever. I am eternally blessed as His Son.                                                    


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How innocent are you feeling today? Are you blaming yourself for anything? Feeling guilty about something you have said, not said, done, left undone? Are you judging yourself? How innocent do you feel? We all yearn to be innocent. That is one of the reasons that we project blame and responsibility for our unhappiness onto others. If they are the cause of my problems and I am not, I think I can purchase my innocence at someone's expense, but of course that is not true innocence. In fact, it achieves the opposite. Projecting guilt onto others is how we keep it, because it is our own guilt that we are projecting. This is something the ego never lets us see, which is why Jesus goes to great lengths to explain to us how all of this works.

We don't want to feel responsible for everything that seems to happen to us. We want to make others responsible. We want to feel we are innocent, even if it means that we make ourselves the innocent victims of the world we see. We are not victims and we are truly innocent. The Course says that we only cry for our lost innocence. We think we cry for all kinds of reasons, but there is only one---our sadness that we have done something to corrupt ourselves and lost our innocence.

That is why today the Lesson is trying to have us know and appreciate the truth of our holiness. Our holiness is what is kept hidden by our ego thought system. Yes, we make mistakes and suffer from ignorance, but we are not guilty. Mistakes are to be corrected. Guilt has no correction. It requires punishment. For those of us who have had religious training, while there were messages of a loving God, we were also reminded of our guilt and how bad we should feel because Jesus had to be crucified for our sins. This is an example of how the ego has projected its own image onto God and now we think God is an administrator of punishment for what we have done. These teachings are about undoing all of that.

Our true nature is innocence. We get off course all of the time, but like the pilot of a 747 that is constantly veering off course, the Holy Spirit guides us back on track, if we let Him. Our lives in the world will be a constant process of getting off course as long as we live on the fault line of both thought systems. The first Lesson of the Holy Spirit makes it clear that, when we get on this path, we will experience conflict because now we have a choice of teacher, either the ego or the Holy Spirit. It is one or the other, without exception, and yet while we want the peace of the Holy Spirit, we still want to hold onto attack thoughts. That is where the conflict now comes into our mind. We want to forgive, but we also want to hold onto what we see as justified grievances. Until we make a choice only for God, we will experience conflict.

We came here to try to find happiness in the world, but now it can serve a different purpose, which is to learn who we truly are. We will be motivated to do so when we recognize that the world is not a place where we will ever find our happiness. Our happiness will only come when we return to our true reality. When we recognize that the world is not the source of our happiness, we can turn to the Holy Spirit, Who will show us how the world can be used as a classroom for learning to return to the truth of our Self.

In Chapter 13, we see why Jesus says to us that it is important to see our brothers as innocent. "See no one, then, as guilty, and you will affirm the truth of guiltlessness unto yourself. In every condemnation that you offer the Son of God lies the conviction of your own guilt. If you would have the Holy Spirit make you free of it, accept His offer of Atonement for all your brothers. For so you learn that it is true for you." (T.13.IV.6.1-4)(ACIM OE T.13.III.16) When we attack and condemn, we increase our own guilt and our own self-condemnation, but when we forgive we give this gift to ourselves as well as to the world. "Guilt is always in your mind, which has condemned itself. Project it not, for while you do, it cannot be undone." (T.13.IX.6.7-8)(ACIM OE T.13.III.16) We can only undo the guilt in our own minds if we take responsibility for it and not blame anyone else. When we are willing to see that whatever we see in our brothers we are reinforcing in ourselves, we undo our own guilt. Thus, we are only hurting ourselves when we condemn our brother.
  
These Lessons are reminding us that forgiving the world is how we learn we are innocent. It is only then that we will no longer see ourselves as guilty. As long as we attack and hold grievances, we will not know our holiness. That is why forgiveness is at the heart of healing our minds. As a result of the recognition of our holiness, it is projected onto the world and we now see a world of holiness. Why? Because all we see is our own thoughts projected outward. Now we see a world that is blessed, which is the real world. That is our goal in this work we are doing in looking at our own blocks to love.

Now the holiness of the world shines forth and "Everyone and everything I see in its light shares in the joy it brings to me." (W.58.2.3) I am not blessed alone. The joy we experience is not for us alone. We all share in this holiness. My holiness is a gift to everyone. It is not for me alone. This is how joy is increased and how everyone receives the blessing. "There is nothing my holiness cannot do." (W.58.3.1) It has unlimited power to heal and to save. We are saved from all of our false ideas about ourselves. We are saved from the image that we think is who we are as bodies, personalities and concepts we hold about ourselves. It is a petty image that keeps us in the illusion and keeps us in fear. Yet "Once I have accepted my holiness, nothing can make me afraid." (4.4)
 
Today. remember to claim "all good and only good" (W.58.5.2) All good things are yours. That is how it was set up for you because of Who you are. (W.58.5.4-5) You are supported, protected and guided in all things. You are blessed. When we claim what is ours in our creation as God intended for us, we will know that we cannot suffer loss or deprivation or pain of any kind. "My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things. His care for me is infinite, and is with me forever. I am eternally blessed as His Son." (W.58.5.6-8) He holds our inheritance for us until we are ready to claim it. His Love is lavished on us, and we truly will know it when we have forgiven the world. Then we will have awakened from the ego's dream of suffering and know that we are at home with God, a home we have never left except in dreams.

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VIII. Time and Eternity         

70 The continuing will to remain separated is the only possible reason for continuing guilt feelings. We have said this before, but we did not emphasize the destructive results of this decision at that time. Any decision of the mind will affect both behavior and experience. What you will, you expect. This is not delusional. Your mind does create your future, and it can turn it back to full creation at any minute if it accepts the Atonement first. It will also turn back to full creation the instant it has done so. Having given up its thought disorder, the proper ordering of thought becomes quite apparent.

 

71 God in His knowledge is not waiting, but His Kingdom is bereft while you wait. All the Sons of God are waiting for your return, just as you are waiting for theirs. Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time. You have elected to be in time rather than eternity and have therefore changed your belief in your status. Yet your election is both free and alterable. You do not belong in time. Your place is only in eternity, where God Himself placed you forever.

 

72 Guilt feelings are the preservers of time. They induce fears of future retaliation or abandonment and thus ensure that the future will remain like the past. This is the ego's continuity and gives it a false sense of security through the belief that you cannot escape from it. But you can and must. God offers you the continuity of eternity in exchange. When you choose to make this exchange, you will simultaneously exchange guilt for joy, viciousness for love, and pain for peace. My role is only to unchain your will and make it free. Your ego cannot accept this freedom and will oppose your free decision at every possible moment and in every possible way. And as its maker, you recognize what it can do because you gave it the power to do it.

 

73 The mind does indeed know its power because the mind does indeed know God. Remember the Kingdom always, and remember that you who are part of the Kingdom cannot be lost. The mind that was in me is in you, for God creates with perfect fairness. Let the Holy Spirit remind you always of His fairness, and let me teach you how to share it with your brothers. How else can the chance to claim it for yourself be given you? What you do not understand is that the two voices speak for different interpretations of the same thing simultaneously, or almost simultaneously, for the ego always speaks first. Alternate interpretations were unnecessary until the first one was made, and speaking itself was unnecessary before the ego was made.

 

74 The ego speaks in judgment and the Holy Spirit reverses its decisions, much as the Supreme Court has the power to reverse the lower courts' decisions about the laws of this world. The ego's decisions are always wrong because they are based on a complete fallacy which they were made to uphold. Nothing the ego perceives is interpreted correctly. Not only does it cite Scripture for its purpose, but it even interprets Scripture as a witness for itself. The Bible is a fearful thing to the ego because of its prejudiced judgment. Perceiving it as fearful, it interprets it fearfully. Having made you afraid, you do not appeal to the Higher Court because you believe its judgment would be against you.

 

75 We need cite only a few examples to see how the ego's interpretations have misled you. A favorite ego quotation is "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Another is "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord." Still another is "I will visit the sins of the father unto the third and fourth generation," and also "The wicked shall perish." There are many others, but if you will let the Holy Spirit reinterpret these in His own light, they will suffice.

 

76 "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" merely means that what you believe to be worth cultivating you will cultivate in yourself. Your judgment of what is worthy makes it worthy for you. "Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord" is easily explained if you remember that ideas increase only by being shared. This quotation therefore emphasizes the fact that vengeance cannot be shared. Give it therefore to the Holy Spirit, who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind, which is part of God.

 

77 "I will visit the sins of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation," as interpreted by the ego, is particularly vicious. It is used, in fact, as an attempt to guarantee its survival beyond itself. Actually, all the quotation means is that the Holy Spirit in later generations retains the power to interpret correctly what former generations have thought and thus release their thoughts from the ability to produce fear anywhere in the Sonship. "The wicked shall perish" is merely a statement of fact if the word "perish" is properly understood. Every loveless thought must be undone. Even the word "undone" is fearful to the ego, which interprets "I am undone" as "I am destroyed."

 

78 The ego will not be destroyed because it is part of your thought, but because it is uncreative and therefore unsharing, it will be reinterpreted entirely to release you from fear. The part of your thought which you have given to the ego will merely return to the Kingdom, where your whole mind belongs. The ego is a form of arrest, but arrest is merely delay. It does not involve the concept of punishment, although the ego welcomes that interpretation. You can delay the completion of the Kingdom, but you cannot introduce the concept of assault into it.

 

79 When I said, "I am come as a light into the world," I surely came to share the light with you. Remember the symbolic reference we made before to the ego's dark glass, and remember also that we said, "Do not look there." It is still true that "where you look to find yourself is up to you." The Higher Court will not condemn you. It will merely dismiss the case against you. There can be no case against a Child of God, and every witness to guilt in God's creations is bearing false witness to God Himself.

 

80 Appeal everything you believe gladly to God's own Higher Court because it speaks for Him and therefore speaks truly. It will dismiss the case against you, however carefully you have built it. The case may be foolproof, but it is not God-proof. The Voice for God will not hear it at all because He can only witness truly. His verdict will always be "Thine is the Kingdom" because He was given you to remind you of what you are.

 

81 Your patience with each other is your patience with yourselves. Is not a Child of God worth patience? I have shown you infinite patience because my will is that of our Father, from Whom I learned of infinite patience. His Voice was in me as it is in you, speaking for patience towards the Sonship in the name of its Creator. What you need to learn now is that only infinite patience can produce immediate effects. This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results now, it renders time unnecessary.

 

82 To say that time is temporary is merely redundant. We have repeatedly said that time is a learning device which will be abolished when it is no longer useful. The Holy Spirit, Who speaks for God in time, also knows that time is meaningless. He reminds you of this in every passing moment of time because it is His special function to return you to eternity and remain to bless your creations there. He is the only blessing you can truly give because He is so truly blessed, and because He has been given you so freely by God, you must give Him as you received Him.

                

 

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