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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 7 "THE CONSISTENCY OF THE KINGDOM"
II. BARGAINING VERSUS HEALING      


I gave only love to the Kingdom because I believed that was what I was. What you believe you are determines your gifts, and if God created you by extending Himself as you, you can only extend yourself as He did. Only joy increases forever, since joy and eternity are inseparable. God extends outward beyond limits and beyond time, and you who are co-creators with Him extend His Kingdom forever and beyond limit. Eternity is the indelible stamp of creation. The eternal are in peace and joy forever.

 

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Holding grievances is an attack
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1 While we have recognized that the ego's plan for salvation is the opposite of God's, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. 

 

2 The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God. In fact, the ego is the physical embodiment of this wish. For it is this wish which seems to surround the mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone and unable to reach other minds except through the body which was made to imprison it. The limit on communication cannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have you believe that it is. 

 

3 Although the attempt to keep the limitations which a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation. But let us consider the kinds of things which you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something we do not like; he does something that displeases us, he "betrays" his hostile thoughts in his behavior. 

 

4 We are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary, we are exclusively concerned with what he does in a body. We are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from its limitations. We are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him and judging them as one. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be as well. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. 

 

5 If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. 

 

6 The body's apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, if the body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. And every grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooks entirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body and condemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvation must be death, projecting this attack onto God and holding Him responsible for it. 

 

7 To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us accept this and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the body offers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is your only savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. 

 

8 This is the universal belief of the world you see. Some hate the body and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body and try to glorify and exalt it. But while it stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation and holding your grievances against Him and His creation that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome it as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. 

 

9 We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcome it instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind. You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations. Now we are going to try to see this differently. 

 

10 The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already. 

 

11 Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God's plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us. To achieve this goal, we must replace attack with acceptance. As long as we attack it, we cannot understand what God's plan for us is. We are therefore attacking what we do not recognize. Now we are going to try to lay judgment aside and ask what God's plan for us is: 

 

12 What is salvation, Father? 

    I do not know.
    Tell me, that I may understand.

 

13 Then we will wait in quiet for His answer. 

 

14 We have attacked God's plan for salvation without waiting to hear what it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listened to His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears. Now we would see and hear and learn. "What is salvation, Father?" Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find. 

 

15 We are no longer asking the ego what salvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then, that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking them of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: 

 

16 What is salvation, Father? 

   I do not know.
   Tell me, that I may understand.

 

17 He will answer. Be determined to hear. 

 

18 One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises begin with this: 

 

19 Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for 

    salvation.
    Let me accept it instead.
    What is salvation, Father?

 

20 Then wait a minute or so in silence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.     


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Holding grievances is an attack
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A big focus in this Lesson is, "The ego's fundamental wish is to replace God," (W.72.2.1) and that wish is reflected in our physical embodiment. This wish "seems to surround the mind with a body." (W.72.2.3) When we identify ourselves with that body, we come to think that it is our reality. As such, the end result must be death. And if we are bodies and have been created in the image of God, God must also be a body. (W.72.4.5) "A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable." (W.72.4.6) We have given God the attributes of the ego while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God. Further, since we believe that God created us as bodies, then our death must be something that God offers us as our salvation. In this view, while He pretends to be the Author of life, He is actually the bringer of death. "In trying to present Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is a liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth." (W.72.5.3) In other words, this is the God that is described in the Bible. He becomes a projection of the image we hold of ourselves, for if we see our bodies as real and given us by God, God must be an ego as well, albeit an even bigger ego.
  
The second focus is related to grievances and about the way we look at them. The Lesson speaks of the kind of things we have grievances about. They are all about what bodies say or do. "But let us consider the kinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not always associated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like. He does something that displeases you. He 'betrays' his hostile thoughts in his behavior." (W.72.3.2-6) It has nothing to do with who this person really is in truth. We have simply forgotten, but grievances are all about specifics and the body offers us such specifics. Our grievances are focused on what someone says or does. When we hold grievances against our brother, "You are doing more than failing to help in freeing him from the body's limitations. You are actively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them as one." (W.72.4.3-4)
  
Every time we insist that we are right about our brother's misdeeds, we are keeping him in prison to his body, forgetting that that is not the truth of who he is or who we are. He is just a character in our dream who, in truth, is the holy child of God just as we are. When we forgive, we see beyond the body. We see our brother as innocent, regardless of what he has said or done. Forgiveness looks past the behaviors and looks to his true reality as a Son of God. When we choose to see guilt instead, it is because we want to see our guilt in them. That is why we want our brothers to betray us. In fact, "The messengers of fear are harshly ordered to seek out guilt, and cherish cherish every scrap of evil and of sin that they can find." (T.19.IV.A.11.2)(ACIM OE T.19.Va.50) We are delighted to see guilt in others because if we could find proof of their guilt, our innocence is left untouched and we won't have to endure God's punishment. That is why we are so attracted to guilt. While all behavior is a call for love from our brother, the ego prefers to see the guilt. Through forgiveness, the Holy Spirit reveals to us our brother's reality and our own. Until we see our brother beyond his body, we won't believe that he is really a creation of God and created in His image as Love, and neither will we believe that about ourselves.
 
To put it simply, we believe we are a body, here for a short time in competition with other bodies whom we see as behaving badly toward us, for which we hold grievances, retaliate against them, maintain our defenses to try to keep ourselves safe, until life is over and then God offers us death whereby we go to our reward or punishment. Given that this is the picture we have accepted, the ego says, "Life is short. Live it fully. Grab your small scraps of specialness. Eat, drink and be merry. He who has the most toys when he dies wins." Thus, we don't ask for much from life, but settle for very little. We take what little pleasure we can and make the best of it.

With so much focus on the body and its pleasure, we exalt it and work to create the right image. The body is the central figure in our dream and we see it as our friend and protector, doing what we can to look after our best interests, while God is the enemy---the grim reaper. The body and world feel very real to us, while it is God that is seen as illusory. It comes from our desire to be autonomous from God, free of Him and seeing ourselves as on our own and self-created. We actually believe that our separation has been accomplished because that is what seems real to us. The body and this world are what seem to be real and solid, but this is the illusion. It is all just a dream of separation, and in that dream, we see God as the Author of death, presenting Himself as the Author of life. This is a confusing picture, which makes God a "liar and a deceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth." (W.72.5.3)

It is a world where, "Children are born into it through pain and in pain. Their growth is attended by suffering, and they learn of sorrow and separation and death." (T.13.IN.2.5-6)(ACIM OE T.11.X.86) Jesus says, "If this were the real world, God would be cruel. For no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving." (T.13.IN.3.1)(ACIM OE T.11.X.87) It makes God someone who cannot be trusted, but only to be feared.

Now we see, "The body as your only savior." (W.72.6.8) Yet for the body to be real, it means the death of God. And so we make the best we can of our lives here and settle for whatever we can get in our short time before death comes to take our lives. "Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliate it. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it." (W.72.7.2-3) Whether we love the body or hate it, we have made it real. What happens when we put our attention on our bodily existence as our reality? We take whatever pleasures we can get and do our best to avoid pain. We turn to the body as our friend rather than listen to the Holy Spirit. We rely on ourselves and turn to the ego for guidance on what to do. We buy our own counsel on how to keep ourselves safe. The decision to come into the body and the world in the first place was an attack on God so we could exist at His expense. We chose to do it our way rather than to surrender to His Love.

It is a "senseless attack on salvation." (W.72.8.1) Jesus describes what we have done as "upside-down perception." (W.72.8.3) In other words, we have it all wrong. Our reality is not that of a body. We are a mind. The body is a projection of that mind. Seeing ourselves in our bodies with the "truth outside of you, locked away from your awareness by the body's limitations," (W.72.8.4) is now what we are being called to see differently on behalf of our peace of mind. What peace can there be when we identify with the limitations of the body that will eventually wither and die? Jesus is asking us to recognize that we are not bodies and therefore the body should not be our concern. Our natural state is to be without a body. It is our reality. Jesus is asking us to identify with the light of truth, which is what we are. This light is the Self that is "separate from the body." (W.72.9.5) Our reality is that of our mind. To recognize this about ourselves, we must "replace attack with acceptance." (W.72.10.2) In other words, the only reason we don't know that we are mind is that we block this reality with our attack thoughts.

Jesus says, "To be without a body is to be in our natural state." (W.72.9.3) He goes on to say, "It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern." (W.72.9.2) The body is part of those clouds that were discussed in previous Lessons, where it is just another projection of the mind as is the rest of the world of form. Anyone who has had the experience of the holy instant of leaving the body and "seeing" the body as separate from themselves has some sense of this, whether in a brief moment of meditation or an experience like described by Elizabeth Gilbert in her book "Eat, Pray, Love." Here are some excerpts of her experience.
  
"I got pulled through the wormhole of the Absolute, and in that rush I suddenly understood the workings of the universe completely. I left my body, I left the room, I left the planet, I stepped through time and I entered the void. I was inside the void, but I also was the void and I was looking at the void, all at the same time. The void was a place of limitless peace and wisdom. The void was conscious and it was intelligent. The void was God, which means that I was inside God."

"It was the deepest love I'd ever experienced, beyond anything I could have previously imagined, but it wasn't euphoric. It wasn't exciting. There wasn't enough ego or passion left in me to create euphoria or excitement. It was just obvious. Like when you've been looking at an optical illusion for a long time, straining your eyes to decode the trick and suddenly your cognizance shifts and there ---now you can clearly see it---the two vases are actually two faces. Once you've seen through optical illusion, you can never not see it again."

"Imagine cramming yourself into such a puny box of identity when you could experience your infinitude instead. I wondered, why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?"

This is not unlike many others who have struggled to describe an experience that is difficult to put into words. An experience like this does not change the need to do the work of releasing our grievances, but it does offer a glimpse of our reality beyond the body and motivates us to stay on this path. Even momentary glimpses of the peace that passes all understanding is so rewarding.

Jesus speaks about how we have promised the ego that we would keep God at a distance, and in our secret vows we have promised each other to keep the separation going. "Yet it is a promise to another to be hurt by him, and to attack him in return." (T.28.VI.4.7)(ACIM OE T.28.VII.57) This promise is buried in our subconscious, but it is at the bottom of our resistance to the Course and why we find this spiritual journey hard. Later, Jesus says that we have also made a promise to God. "In His creation did his Father say, 'You are beloved of Me and I of you forever. Be you perfect as Myself, for you can never be apart from Me.'" (T.28.VI.6.4-5)(ACIM OE T.28.VII.59) to which we replied "I will." (T.28.VI.6.6)(ACIM OE T.28.VII.59) While we have made a promise to the ego to depart from God and to each other to maintain our attacks and betrayals we can't maintain this promise forever. The Atonement Principle is our assurance that this is so. We simply can't change who we are in our creation. We can only go as far as forgetting the truth.
 
While yesterday we read that the ego's mantra is "seek but do not find," (W.71.4.2) the Holy Spirit assures us to "'Seek and you will find,'" (T.12.IV.4.4-5)(ACIM OE T.11.5.39) and under His guidance, we are led back to who we really are. So, again we see that the ego's plan for our salvation is the opposite to God's. It requires that we set aside the ego's temptations to hold grievances that keep us from peace. It requires that we see our brothers as ourselves, joining instead of separating. It is our wish to separate from the love that we are that seems to surround the mind with the body. Now our communication is limited and our focus is on differences that we have with each other, which keeps the separation going. The truth is God's Love surrounds us and not the body. Our body is not our source, even though it seems that way to us. It is not our reality. God is.

Forgiveness is our way back to God. When we hold grievances and when we judge our brothers, we are actively attacking God's plan for salvation. His plan is for us to see our brothers as innocent so we can know our own innocence. His plan is to accept Atonement for ourselves. It is to accept the healing answer back into our awareness by asking for help in having the blocks to love, which we have erected between ourselves and our brothers, lifted from our minds. This opens up space in our minds for the love that we are as one Self. We will only do that when we see the effects of our judgments and see that we are only hurting ourselves with every judgment we make.

It is all about our willingness to be taught that we have it all wrong. We have been looking for salvation/happiness in the world by making judgments and holding grievances and seeing the world as the cause of our unhappiness. We are not aware of how we continue to hurt ourselves in this process. Jesus is helping us to consider that maybe we have been wrong about everything, and when we consider this possibility, we become willing to be taught that there truly is another way to peace, joy and innocence. He tells us,  "Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind," (W.72.8.3) because we have accepted the limitations of our identity as a body. Faith grows as we test out His promises that our peace is in Him and will never be found in the ego's promises. "Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out." (W.PII.327.2.1)
 
A loving, eternal God and a limited body and personality can't both be true. Thus, it is one or the other. Jesus says, "This is the universal belief of the world you see." (W.72.7.1) It is the belief in duality, in the existence of God and in the reality of the world. It is the belief in the reality of the body and of its ultimate death. Whether we hate the body by sacrificing it as a martyr or ascetic, or whether we serve the body in a hedonistic way by having a blast, both sides agree on the fact that God is the author of the body. Whichever side we take, seeing the body as for pleasure or hating it, either way we have made the body real. "But while the body stands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God's plan for salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, that you may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your chosen savior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy." (W.72.7.4-6) Thus, we avoid the Voice for truth by listening to the voice of the ego and forfeiting our reality as a Son of God, complete, perfect and whole as we were created. We do this at great cost to our peace of mind.
  
"The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without it is our natural state." (W.72.9.1-3) We have it all wrong! We have bought into this whole story of guilt and have never looked at how the ego set it all up so, like the Prodigal son, we feel we can never face God and go home again. Jesus is now appealing to us to listen and make another choice. "Ask and you will be answered. Seek and you will find." (W.72.11.3-4) "Choose once again if you would take the place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there." (T.31.VIII.1.5)(ACIM OE T.31.VIII.84)
 
Today we practice laying judgment aside. When we are tempted to look to the ego to tell us where to look for our peace and happiness, instead ask, "What is salvation, Father. I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand." (W.72.12.2-4) Listen with confidence and certainty "that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask." (W.72.11.7) When we release our grievances and judgments, when we refuse to invest in the illusion of attack and winning at our brother's expense, only then can we hear the truth. Forgiveness is at the heart of this, making a space in our minds where the Voice for truth can be heard.

"Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the Infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself." (W.72.12.1) Our confidence wanes when we are tempted by the ego to forget our function of forgiveness and once again listen to the ego. It is at such times that Jesus urges us to simply remember the truth of what he is telling us here. He is reminding us that we can remember our purpose anytime that we choose. That is to wake up from this dream of misery, suffering and death.
 
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Chapter Seven


I. Introduction                

1 The creative power of both God and His creations is limitless, but they are not in reciprocal relationship. You do communicate fully with God, as He does with you. This is an ongoing process in which you share, and because you share it, you are inspired to create like God. Yet in creation you are not in reciprocal relation to God since He created you, but you did not create Him. We have already said that only in this respect your creative power differs from His. Even in this world there is a parallel. Parents give birth to children, but children do not give birth to parents. They do, however, give birth to their children and thus give birth as their parents do.

 

2 If you created God and He created you, the Kingdom could not increase through its own creative thought. Creation would therefore be limited, and you would not be co-creators with God. As God's creative Thought proceeds from Him to you, so must your creative thought proceed from you to your creations. Only in this way can all creative power extend outward. God's accomplishments are not yours. But yours are like His. He created the Sonship, and you increase it. You have the power to add to the Kingdom, but not to add to the Creator of the Kingdom. You claim this power when you become vigilant only for God and His Kingdom. By accepting this power as yours, you have learned to be what you are.

 

3 Your creations belong in you, as you belong in God. You are part of God, as your sons are part of His Sons. To create is to love. Love extends outward simply because it cannot be contained. Being limitless, it does not stop. It creates forever, but not in time. God's creations have always been because He has always been. Your creations have always been because you can create only as God creates. Eternity is yours because He created you eternal.

 

II. Bargaining versus Healing 

4 The ego demands reciprocal rights because it is competitive rather than loving. It is always willing to make a "deal," but it cannot understand that to be like another means that no deals are possible. To gain you must give, not bargain. To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God's Will. To will with God is to create like Him. God does not limit His gifts in any way. You are His gifts, and so your gifts must be like His. Your gifts to the Kingdom must be like His gifts to you.

 

5 I gave only love to the Kingdom because I believed that was what I was. What you believe you are determines your gifts, and if God created you by extending Himself as you, you can only extend yourself as He did. Only joy increases forever, since joy and eternity are inseparable. God extends outward beyond limits and beyond time, and you who are co-creators with Him extend His Kingdom forever and beyond limit. Eternity is the indelible stamp of creation. The eternal are in peace and joy forever.

 

6 To think like God is to share His certainty of what you are and to create like Him is to share the perfect love He shares with you. To this the Holy Spirit leads you that your joy may be complete because the Kingdom of God is whole. We have said that the last step in the reawakening of knowledge is taken by God. This is true, but it is hard to explain in words because words are symbols, and nothing that is true needs to be explained. However, the Holy Spirit has the task of translating the useless into the useful, the meaningless into the meaningful, and the temporary into the timeless. He can therefore tell you something about this last step, although this one you must know yourself, since by it you know what you are. This is your being.

 

7 God does not take steps because His accomplishments are not gradual. He does not teach because His creations are changeless. He does nothing last because He created first and for always. It must be understood that the word "first" as applied to Him is not a time concept. He is first in the sense that He is the first in the Holy Trinity itself. He is the Prime Creator because He created His co-creators. Because He did, time applies neither to Him nor to what He created. The "last step" that God will take was therefore true in the beginning, is true now, and will be true forever.

 

8 What is timeless is always there because its being is eternally changeless. It does not change by increase because it was forever created to increase. If you perceive it as not increasing, you do not know what it is. You also do not know what created it or Who He is. God does not reveal this to you because it was never hidden. His light was never obscured because it is His Will to share it. How can what is fully shared be withheld and then revealed?

 

9 To heal is the only kind of thinking in this world that resembles the Thought of God, and because of the elements which they share, can transfer to it. When a brother perceives himself as sick, he is perceiving himself as not whole and therefore in need. If you too see him this way, you are seeing him as if he were absent from the Kingdom or separated from it, thus making the Kingdom itself obscure to both of you. Sickness and separation are not of God, but the Kingdom is. If you obscure the Kingdom, you are perceiving what is not of God.

 

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Hard Copy book is reg $35. A case of 10 would have been $350. However, the price for a case is $210. [$21 per book, which is 40% off]  

 

Soft Cover book is $30 [although on sale at $25, when purchased individually.] A case of 12, at $30 per book, is $360. However, when a case is purchased, there is a 40% discount and the price is $216 [$18 per book]
This is a savings of $144!

 

Please call for more information or contact us at [email protected] 

800-771-5056

 

 

 
Recording of Original EditionAudio Recording of
ORIGINAL EDITION!!

 

Kellie Love [considered the VOICE of ACIM] recorded the Original Edition.  

 

The Full set [8 cds, 68 hours] is available for $109.

 

Text only [4 cds, 38 hours] is
available for $64.95


Workbook only [3 cds, 20 hours] is
available for $43.95

 

Manual for Teachers only [1 cd, 8 hours] is
available for $14.95

 

LISTEN to a PREVIEW 

Order Here  

 


 
To GIVE and to RECEIVE are One in Truth. Lesson 108

  

Presently all CIMS projects are wholly supported by free will gifts of time, talent, and money. If you would like to support any of the activities of the Society in any way, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Because of the international character of CIMS, the internet is our primary means of communicating and collaborating.

  

CIMS is a section 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, and donations are tax deductible.
  

ALSO, by means of your will or other estate plan, you can name "Course in Miracles Society" as the beneficiary of a portion of your estate, or of particular assets in your estate.


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Namaste and Thank You!

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