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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 13 "FROM PERCEPTION TO KNOWLEDGE"
I. INTRODUCTION
 

The very real difference between perception and knowledge becomes quite apparent if you consider this: There is nothing partial about knowledge. Every aspect is whole, and therefore no aspect is separate. You are an aspect of knowledge, being in the Mind of God, Who knows you. All knowledge must be yours, for in you is all knowledge. Perception at its loftiest is never complete. Even the perception of the Holy Spirit, as perfect as perception can be, is without meaning in Heaven. Perception can reach everywhere under His guidance, for the vision of Christ beholds everything in light. Yet no perception, however holy, will last forever. 

 

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   Now we review again, this time aware
   we are preparing for the second part

   of learning how the truth can be applied.

   Today we will begin to concentrate

   on readiness for what will follow next.

   Such is our aim for this review and for

   the lessons following. Thus we review

   the recent lessons and their central thoughts

   in such a way as will facilitate

   the readiness which we would now achieve.|

 

   There is a central theme which unifies

   each step in the review we undertake.

   It can be simply stated in these words:

 

   "My mind holds only what I think with God."

 

   This is a fact. And represents the truth

   of What you are and What your Father is.

   It is this Thought by Which the Father gave

   creation to the Son, establishing

   the Son as co-creator with Himself.

   It is this Thought Which fully guarantees

   salvation to the Son. For in his mind

   no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares.

   Lack of forgiveness blocks this Thought from his

   awareness. Yet It is forever true.|

 

   Let us begin our preparation with

   some understanding of the many forms

   in which the lack of true forgiveness may

   be carefully concealed. Because they are

   illusions, they are not perceived to be

   but what they are; defenses which protect

   your unforgiving thoughts from being seen

   and recognized. Their purpose is to show

   you something else, and hold correction off

   through self-deception made to take its place.|

 

   And yet your mind holds only what you think

   with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take

   the place of truth. No more than can a child

   who throws a stick into the ocean change

   the coming in and going out of tides,

   the warming of the water by the sun,

   the silver of the moon on it by night.

   So do we start each practice period

   in this review with readying our mind

   to understand the lessons that we read

   and see the meaning which they offer us.|

 

   Begin each day with time devoted to

   the preparation of your mind to learn

   what each idea you will review that day

   can offer you in freedom and in peace.

   Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts

   that would deceive, and let this Thought alone

   engage it fully and remove the rest:

 

   "My mind holds only what I think with God."

 

   Five minutes with this Thought will be enough

   to set the day along the lines which God

   appointed, and to place His Mind in charge

   of all the thoughts you will receive that day.|

   They will not come from you alone, for they

   will all be shared with Him. And so each one

   will bring the message of His Love to you,

   returning messages of yours to Him.

   So will communion with the Lord of Hosts

   be yours, as He Himself has willed it be.

   And as His Own completion joins with Him,

   so will He join with you who are complete

   as you unite with Him and He with you.|

 

   After your preparation, merely read

   each of the two ideas assigned to you

   to be reviewed that day. Then close your eyes

   and say them slowly to yourself. There is

   no hurry now, for you are using time

   for its intended purpose. Let each word

   shine with the meaning God has given it

   as it was given to you through His Voice.

   Let each idea that you review today

   give you the gift which He has laid in it

   for you to have of Him. And we will use

   no format for our practicing but this:|

 

   Each hour of the day, bring to your mind

   the Thought with which the day began, and spend

   a quiet moment with It. Then repeat

   the two ideas you practice for the day

   unhurriedly, with time enough to see

   the gifts which they contain for you, and let

   them be received where they were meant to be.|

   We add no other thoughts, but let them be

   the messages they are. We need no more

   than that to give us happiness and rest

   and endless quiet, perfect certainty,

   and all our Father wills that we receive

   as the inheritance we have of Him.

 

   Each day of practicing, as we review,

   we close as we began, repeating first

   the Thought that made the day a special time

   of blessing and of happiness for us;

   and through our faithfulness restored the world

   from darkness to the light, from grief to joy,

   from pain to peace, from sin to holiness.|

   God offers thanks to you who practice thus

   the keeping of His Word. And as you give

   your mind to the ideas for the day

   again before you sleep, His gratitude

   surrounds you with the peace wherein He willed

   you be forever, and are learning now

   to claim again as your inheritance.

      
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   [123] "I thank my Father for His gifts to me."

 

   [124] "Let me remember I am one with God."   

 

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LESSON 142
Review IV Lessons 123 and Lessons 124
      
Sarah's Commentary:

This is a time when some Course students have a hard time staying with the Lessons, because, in this review, there is no commentary provided. We just have two lines for each Lesson, introduced by the statement: "My mind holds only what I think with God." On the other hand, it can be a time of deep reflection with few words that simply point to the truth. In our time of contemplation, truth can shine forth through that deep communion with God.

This is part of the preparation for the second part of the Course, where we will no longer have the detailed instructions for the practice but, instead, it is a time of listening, communion, prayer, and really opening your heart with joy and gladness to the experience, with no prescribed amount of time. We are continuing to learn how we can apply the Lessons and this teaching to our lives with regard to situations, people and circumstances we are facing, and letting go of interfering, unforgiving thoughts.

Our distracted monkey minds of random thoughts seem not to be easily brought to quiet focus on God. We need a lot of mind training, staying very vigilant with regard to our thoughts. The theme we are given for this practice is that our minds hold only what we think with God.

It is not a thought to be practiced as a mantra. We are not being asked to force our minds to drive out opposing thoughts. We need to bring consistent awareness to those thoughts and recognize that they are blocking the reality that, in truth, the only real thought is the one that we think with God. All of our other thoughts, except those we think with God, mean that we are not really thinking at all. Jesus says that when we think we are thinking other thoughts than those we think with God, our minds are actually blank. Our own thoughts are just noise that keep us feeling anxious, angry, frustrated, fantasizing, and distracted. These are all just hallucinations, which increase our guilt and fear. They are thoughts that we can clearly identify as attacking and judgmental, but there are other thoughts that we hold that we don't recognize as blocks to love. It is here that we can deceive ourselves in a significant way. We do so by thinking that they are good, nice, and well-intended thoughts, but they simply mask our unholy thoughts. Therefore, they can all be characterized as unforgiving, in that they block our remembrance of our oneness with God, and we don't realize His gifts. Having said that, while our thoughts keep the Voice for God at bay, they nevertheless do not change our reality any more than the sticks the child throws in the ocean change the ocean. We are still as God created us. We are still innocent and whole.

A common theme among almost everyone I know, and I include myself in that, is how very busy we are in our lives. A high level of activity seems much more acceptable in our world than to affirm how quiet and peaceful we are. As a friend of mine often says, when we have spent time in some activity, "That was a wonderful way to kill some time." The ego makes judgments about quietness as boredom or unproductive use of time. As David Hawkins says, the ego needs constant experience. It keeps us distracted with activity and "to do" lists that make us feel that we are important.

Jesus says it is all because of our fear of redemption. "Under the ego's dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid." (T.13.III.2.1) The ego throws all kinds of tricks and games to distract us from the pain that we hold in our minds. It has actually made us believe that we have lost our beautiful divine nature, and these tricks and games are the offerings that distract us from recognizing this deep desire for God. While the mind weeps, we throw at it money, sex, status, work, fame, and anything that will keep it preoccupied with the things of the world. "How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children'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?" (W.PII.Q4.5.1-8) It is a very poignant question that is there, not to increase our guilt, but to look deeply at our purpose as to what it is we really want from this life. "Our emphasis is not on giving up the world, but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace." (W.PI.129.1.3)
 
I have a friend who recently inherited a huge sum of money, but could not even think about letting go of the intensely crazy working life that consumes him. How would it feel to simply experience your life as a quiet peaceful existence? For some, this can be exceedingly threatening. "In peace he needed nothing and asked for nothing. In war he demanded everything and found nothing." (T.13.III.11.1-2) (ACIM OE T.12.III.21) Yet how do we empty our minds of all the distracting thoughts if we never stop our busyness? Isn't that what the ego wants? It is happy to see us just keep going and going, like the energizer bunny, so we don't notice that its purpose is its own existence and not our happiness.
 
Today let's take the time to express our gratitude to our Father for His gifts to us and to remember that we are one with Him. We are asked today to receive His gratitude. "And as you give your mind to the ideas for the day again before you sleep, His gratitude surrounds you in the peace wherein He wills you be forever, and are learning now to claim again as your inheritance." (W.RIV.IN.10.2) The self that we made can offer us nothing of value, nothing that is eternal and nothing that can give us anything but pain. Only love is eternal. That is my Father's gift to me. That is why I feel this deep gratitude that this world is not my reality and that I am eternally loved and blessed. I remind myself of who I really am as a divine being, and when truth dawns on my mind, even briefly, the light of my being can shine forth on those who come into my life. We must allow everything that interferes with that to be released as it comes up. He asks us, "Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him. Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God." (T.13.III.7.3-6)(ACIM OE T.12.III.17) Today, I will release all meaningless anxieties and will not doubt His protection and care for me. "As we deny our separation from our Father, it is healed along with us." (W.124.7.7)
 
Remember, we are already awake in God. We are just pretending not to be. Accepting completely that we are God's perfect thought requires surrender or melting into the Christ Self that we are. Any frustration we feel is a demand or expectation that something be different than it is right now, yet everything is perfect for our awakening in this moment. If God could reach out and lay His Hands on us and zap us into seeing our own divinity, He would be making of us a victim, showing us that there is a power outside of our own minds that can bring us something that we don't already have. This would mean that God created us captive rather than a free soul that makes our own choices and decisions. To choose is our one remaining freedom in this world, and right now, aspects of the dream are still attractive to us, even if they bring pain. We are a child of God, and as such we can do whatever we choose. We came here to experience, and that is what we will do until we find that it no longer serves our deeper need. As long as we still believe that there is pleasure to be found here, we will pursue it. Until we realize that, when we reach for what we think will bring us pleasure, we are actually reaching for more pain, we will not be completely motivated to give it up.

On this journey that we take to God, we still have desires for things in this world. We still want our independence, our individuality and our special unique selves. We still fear our surrender to God and what that might entail. We are now learning to turn those desires over for a deeper desire. This is our desire for awakening to the truth of who we are. Father, help me to remember today what it is that I truly want. Thank you for giving me the Holy Spirit in this dream. Thank you for my brother Jesus, who has shown me the way and stays with me to help me in the undoing of this dream.

There is a gift in each painful situation we seem to experience that is given to us in the dream by the Holy Spirit. It is up to us when we choose to receive this gift. Jesus tells us that if we are still asking, "What am I, what is the meaning of life, and what is my purpose here?" we are actually demonstrating our refusal to accept the truth that is in our right minds. The answer is given. It is just a question of acceptance. Let's stay focused today on our goal. The means have been given us to reach it. This Course is not about rote learning, but a deep willingness for communion with God and an openness to hear his message of love and completion, which is given here. We change the nature of our day, entirely, when we change the nature of our thoughts and allow our mind to hold only what we think with God. When we do, everyone we meet, and every situation we encounter, brings a message of His Love for us. Let us remember today, and as the evening comes, we close the day in gratitude.
  
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Chapter Thirteen

I. Introduction  

1 All therapy is release from the past. That is why the Holy Spirit is the only therapist. He teaches that the past does not exist, a fact which belongs to the sphere of knowledge and which therefore no one in the world knows. It would indeed be impossible to be in the world with this knowledge. For the mind that knows this unequivocally knows also that it dwells in eternity and utilizes no perception at all. It therefore does not consider where it is because the concept "where" does not mean anything to it. It knows that it is everywhere, just as it has everything, and forever.

 

2 The very real difference between perception and knowledge becomes quite apparent if you consider this: There is nothing partial about knowledge. Every aspect is whole, and therefore no aspect is separate. You are an aspect of knowledge, being in the Mind of God, Who knows you. All knowledge must be yours, for in you is all knowledge. Perception at its loftiest is never complete. Even the perception of the Holy Spirit, as perfect as perception can be, is without meaning in Heaven. Perception can reach everywhere under His guidance, for the vision of Christ beholds everything in light. Yet no perception, however holy, will last forever.

 

II. The Role of Healing

3 Perfect perception, then, has many elements in common with knowledge, making transfer to it possible. Yet the last step must be taken by God because the last step in your redemption, which seems to be in the future, was accomplished by God in your creation. The separation has not interrupted it. Creation cannot be interrupted. The separation is merely a faulty formulation of reality with no effect at all. The miracle, without a function in Heaven, is needful here. Aspects of reality can still be seen, and they will replace aspects of unreality. Aspects of reality can be seen in everything and everywhere. Yet only God can gather them together by crowning them as one with the final gift of eternity.

 

4 Apart from the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit has no function. He is not separate from either, being in the mind of both and knowing that Mind is one. He is a Thought of God, and God has given Him to you because He has no Thoughts He does not share. His message speaks of timelessness in time, and that is why Christ's vision looks on everything with love. Yet even Christ's vision is not His reality. The golden aspects of reality which spring to light under His loving gaze are partial glimpses of the Heaven that lies beyond them.

 

5 This is the miracle of creation; that it is one forever. Every miracle you offer to the Son of God is but the true perception of one aspect of the whole. Though every aspect is the whole, you cannot know this until you see that every aspect is the same, perceived in the same light and therefore one. Everyone seen without the past thus brings you nearer to the end of time by bringing healed and healing sight into the darkness and enabling the world to see. For light must come into the darkened world to make Christ's vision possible even here. Help Him to give His gift of light to all who think they wander in the darkness, and let Him gather them into His quiet sight that makes them one.

 

6 They are all the same; all beautiful and equal in their holiness. And He will offer them unto His Father as they were offered unto Him. There is one miracle, as there is one reality. And every miracle you do contains them all, as every aspect of reality you see blends quietly into the One Reality of God. The only miracle that ever was is God's most holy Son, created in the One Reality that is his Father. Christ's vision is His gift to you. His Being is His Father's gift to Him.

 

7 Be you content with healing, for Christ's gift you can bestow, and your Father's gift you cannot lose. Offer Christ's gift to everyone and everywhere, for miracles offered the Son of God through the Holy Spirit attune you to reality. The Holy Spirit knows your part in the redemption and who are seeking you and where to find them. Knowledge is far beyond your individual concern. You, who are part of it and all of it, need only realize that it is of the Father, not of you. Your role in the redemption leads you to it by reestablishing its oneness in your minds.

 

8 When you have seen your brothers as yourself, you will be released to knowledge, having learned to free yourself of Him Who knows of freedom. Unite with me under the holy banner of His teaching, and as we grow in strength, the power of God's Son will move in us, and we will leave no one untouched and no one left alone. And suddenly time will be over, and we will all unite in the eternity of God the Father. The holy light you saw outside yourself in every miracle you offered to your brothers will be returned to you. And knowing that the light is in you, your creations will be there with you, as you are in your Father.

 

9 As miracles in this world join you to your brothers, so do your creations establish your fatherhood in Heaven. You are the witnesses to the Fatherhood of God, and He has given you the power to create the witnesses to your fatherhood in Heaven. The miracle which God created is perfect, as are the miracles which you created in His name. They need no healing, nor do you when you know them.

 

10 Yet in this world, your perfection is unwitnessed. God knows it, but you do not, and so you do not share His witness to it. Nor do you witness unto Him, for reality is witnessed to as one. God waits your witness to His Son and to Himself. The miracles you do on earth are lifted up to Heaven and to Him. They witness to what you do not know, and as they reach the gates of Heaven, God will open them. For never would He leave His own beloved Son outside them and beyond Himself.

 

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