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CH 15 "THE PURPOSE OF TIME"
VII. THE HOLY INSTANT AND THE LAWS OF GOD
 

In the holy instant, the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all. When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound or limited in any way. In this instant, he is as free as God would have him be. For the instant he refuses to be bound, he is not bound.  

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 L e s s o n 169
By grace I live.
By grace I am released.     

 
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   Grace is an aspect of the Love of God

   which is most like the state prevailing in

   the Unity of truth. It is the world's

   most lofty aspiration, for it leads

   beyond the world entirely. It is

   past learning yet the goal of learning, for

   grace cannot come until the mind prepares

   itself for true acceptance. Grace becomes

   inevitable instantly in those

   who have prepared a table where it can

   be gently laid and willingly received;

   an altar clean and holy for the gift.

 

   Grace is acceptance of the Love of God

   within a world of seeming hate and fear.

   By grace alone the hate and fear are gone,

   for grace presents a state so opposite

   to everything the world contains, that those

   whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace

   can not believe the world of fear is real.

  

   Grace is not learned. The final step must go

   beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal

   this course aspires to attain. Yet we

   prepare for grace in that an open mind

   can hear the call to waken. It is not

   shut tight against God's Voice. It has become

   aware that there are things it does not know,

   and thus is ready to accept a state

   completely different from experience

   with which it is familiarly at home.

 

   We have perhaps appeared to contradict

   our statement that the revelation of

   the Father and the Son as One has been

   already set. But we have also said

   the mind determines when that time will be,

   and has determined it. And yet we urge

   you to bear witness to the Word of God

   to hasten the experience of truth,

   and speed its advent into every mind

   which recognizes its effects on you.

 

   Oneness is simply the idea God is.

   And in His Being, He encompasses

   all things. No mind holds anything but Him.

   We say "God is," and then we cease to speak,

   for in that knowledge words are meaningless.

   There are no lips to speak them, and no part

   of mind sufficiently distinct to feel

   that it is now aware of something not

   Itself. It has united with Its Source,

   and like the Source Itself It merely is.

 

   We cannot speak nor write nor even think

   of this at all. It comes to every mind

   when total recognition that its will

   is God's has been completely given and

   received completely. It returns the mind

   into the endless present, where the past

   and future cannot be conceived. It lies

   beyond salvation; past all thought of time,

   forgiveness, holiness and charity.

   The Son of God has merely disappeared

   into His Father, as His Father has

   in him. The world has never been at all.

   Eternity remains a constant state.|

 

   This is beyond experience we try

   to hasten. Yet forgiveness, taught and learned,

   brings with it the experiences which

   bear witness that the time the mind itself

   determined to abandon all but this

   is near at hand. You do not hasten it

   in that what you will offer was concealed

   from Him Who teaches what forgiveness means.|

   All learning was already in His Mind,

   accomplished and complete. He recognized

   all that time holds, and gave it to all minds

   that each one might determine, from a point

   where time has ended, when it is released

   to revelation and eternity.

 

   We have repeated several times before

   that you but take a journey that is done.|

   For Oneness must be here. Whatever time

   the mind has set for revelation is

   entirely irrelevant to what

   must be a constant state, forever as

   it always was; forever to remain

   as it is now. We merely take the part

   assigned long since, and fully recognized

   as perfectly fulfilled, by Him Who wrote

   salvation's script in His Creator's Name,

   and in the Name of His Creator's Son.|

 

   There is no need to further clarify

   what no-one in the world can understand.

   When revelation of your Oneness comes,

   it will be known and fully understood.

   Now we have work to do, for those in time

   can speak of things beyond, and listen to

   words which explain what is to come is past

   already. Yet what meaning can the words

   convey to those who count the hours still,

   and rise and work and go to sleep by them?|

 

   Suffice it, then, that you have work to do

   to play your part. The ending must remain

   obscure to you until your part is done.

   It does not matter. For your part is still

   what all the rest depends on. As you play

   the role assigned to you, salvation comes

   a little nearer each uncertain heart

   that does not beat as yet in tune with God.|

   Forgiveness is the central theme which runs

   throughout salvation, holding all its parts

   in meaningful relationships, the course

   it runs directed and its outcome sure.

 

   And now we ask for grace, the final gift

   salvation can bestow. Experience

   that grace provides will end in time, for grace

   foreshadows Heaven, but does not replace

   the thought of time but for a little while.|

   That interval suffices. It is here

   that miracles are laid; to be returned

   by you from holy instants you receive,

   through grace, in your experience to all

   who see the light that lingers on your face.

 

   What is the Face of Christ but his who went

   a moment into timelessness, and brought

   a clear reflection of the unity

   he felt an instant back to bless the world?

   How could you finally attain to it

   forever, while a part of you remains

   outside, unknowing, unawakened and

   in need of you in witness to the truth?|

  

   Be grateful to return, as you were glad

   to go an instant and accept the gifts

   which grace provided you. You carry them

   back to yourself. And revelation stands

   not far behind. Its coming is ensured.

   We ask for grace and for experience

   that comes from grace. We welcome the release

   it offers everyone. We do not ask

   for the unaskable. We do not look

   beyond what grace can give. For this we can

   give in the grace that has been given us.|

 

   Our learning goal today does not exceed

   this prayer, yet in the world what could be more

   than what we ask this day of Him Who gives

   the grace we ask, as it was given Him?

    

  "By grace I live. By grace I am released.

   By grace I give. By grace I will release."

 

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This Lesson helps us with our readiness to receive grace and to prepare our minds for grace, which is not something we learn. We merely clean up the altar of our minds and prepare for this holy gift. We prepare a table "where it can be gently laid and willingly received." (W.169.1.4) How do we do that? We do the forgiveness work by looking at the ego with the Holy Spirit. The familiar responses we make to every situation must be released. What we think we know fills the mind with thoughts that make no room for truth. "It [the mind] has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home." (W.169.3.6) We must be willing to acknowledge we don't understand anything, but we are willing to be taught. When we think we know, there is no room for the experience of grace. Thus, humility is called for, so we would come to this state of readiness, which is different from what we now know.
 
We think we can trust our senses and understand what we see and experience in the world. We become sure of our experience and affirm it again and again each time we tell our stories, each time we discuss the "state" of the world, and each time we affirm some "truth" or belief we hold and find evidence or justification for. Forgiveness shows us what we see in the world is not true. "Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed and its outcome sure." (W.169.12.1) The world is overcome, where things that have made no sense to us now become meaningful learning opportunities. We will still see behaviors that are attacks, but now we don't judge them as 'bad'. Instead, we  see them as our classroom in order to learn to undo our judgments. Events are still unfolding in the world, as before, but we now experience them with a new perspective. As we do this forgiveness work that is called for in each situation where we make judgments, our perceptions are healed until we come to the place where we see the events and circumstances of the world as having no reality.
 
With Christ's vision, a new interpretation can be given us, which starts with an open mind and admitting we don't know anything. We step out onto unknown territory where we leave behind our current familiarity with our way of seeing and judging. It is an advanced state. "It is the world's most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely." (W.169.1.2) It takes us to the real world, where the dream of this world is no longer.
 
Jesus says we need not be concerned about the time it will take to accept the Atonement. Why? Because that time has already been determined, yet it seems we could hasten this experience. (W.169.4.3) This may seem like a contradiction. This is similar to what we read in Lesson 158, where he says, "The time is set already. It appears to be quite arbitrary. Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. For time but seems to go in one direction. We but undertake a journey that is over. Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us." (W.158.3.1-7)

What is interesting about all of this is that we are actually preparing for a time that is already over. The Atonement has already happened and is present in our minds. (W.169.8.1) Jesus says all learning has already been accomplished and is complete, but we have not yet agreed to choose again what has already been chosen. This is salvation's script, which is here now. "For oneness must be here." (W.169.9.1) It simply can't be lost. All we have done is become unaware of this fact and believe we have destroyed Creation. Jesus says this is impossible and has never happened. Eternity is totally unaffected by our dreams, and therefore the time when we accept the Atonement is irrelevant. He assures us it is available now. We are not being coerced to do anything we are not ready for. Time makes no difference in eternity. Any demands we put on ourselves of where we should be are ones we put on ourselves. Jesus makes no demands of us. He only encourages us to accept healing on behalf of our own well-being.

For now, we need to make every effort to keep bringing our misperceptions to the truth, in order to allow our resistance to receiving more peace and joy in our lives to be lifted. It is clear throughout that Jesus is never pushing us or pressuring us. To me that is an enormous comfort, because sometimes I can start to feel guilty about my seemingly slow progress. Certainly, he urges us not to delay, not because something dreadful will happen if we do, but because he says we will be happier if we allow a new perception to shift our minds from a state of suffering to one of peace and joy. "And yet we urge you to bear witness to the Word of God to hasten the experience of truth, and speed its advent into every mind that recognizes truth's effects on you." (W.169.4.3) We become a light in this world, a demonstration of the power of healing on our minds, and thus on others.
 
Our part is to prepare our mind for "true acceptance" (W.169.1.3) of grace. We are to prepare "a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift." (W.169.1.4) When grace comes to our mind, we have a foretaste of Heaven, which is so opposite to the world that we will no longer hold anything about this world as true. The goal of the Course is to prepare us for this gift of grace by getting ready to receive it. And what is grace? It is a reflection of the love of God. The altar, which must be cleared, is our own mind that is cluttered with our own beliefs and opinions. These beliefs, which keep us hostage to the ego, must be seen to be released. This is done by letting go of all we think we know and asking the Holy Spirit's interpretation of everything we see and experience. An open mind comes through surrender of our beliefs, values, and concepts. I must be willing to acknowledge I do not understand anything. We are mistaken in who we think we are and who we believe everyone else is as well. And now we need help to come to a new perception of all we think we know and understand.

Jesus speaks to us about oneness, saying there are no words to describe that which he is attempting to inform us. He makes it clear we can't understand it and we don't even need to. It is enough to recognize "Oneness is simply the idea God is." (W.169.5.1) If we got this, we would not need the rest of this Course. He knows we can't understand it by saying, "We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all." (W.169.6.1) This experience "returns the mind into the endless present, where past and future cannot be conceived." (W.169.6.3) "We say 'God is,' and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless." (W.169.5.4) This will come to every mind at some point, returning the mind to the endless present disappearing into our Father. We are not capable of knowing Oneness. While he explains this to the extent he can, our work is still with the specifics of this world because that is where we think we are. When we accept our reality, we will remember and understand what perfect Oneness is. In this world, it cannot be known, only reflected.

In the meantime, our job is to use this seeming world of illusion as a classroom to learn forgiveness, which is something "taught and learned." (W.169.7.2) This is what is "now at hand." (W.169.7.2) We are preparing our minds for the attainment of the real world. Jesus reminds us,  "Whatever time the mind has set for revelation is entirely irrelevant to what must be a constant state, forever as it always was; forever to remain as it is now. We merely take the part assigned long since, and fully recognized as perfectly fulfilled by Him Who wrote salvation's script in His Creator's Name, and in the Name of His Creator's Son." (W.169.9.2-3) The dream we are dreaming in this world has no impact on the truth, as it is the script we have chosen, the story we tell about our lives. But the story has no effect on who we are until we are ready to accept the truth. We can't rush into something for which we are not ready. Acceptance of the truth is dependent on releasing our fear. We can be comforted by that thought and accept that all is exactly as it needs to be for our awakening.

Everything that seems to happen to us is the life lesson we have chosen in order to return to the state we never left. What could we not accept if we knew it were all for our good? Thus, the experiences in this seeming world can all be used for our awakening. We would welcome it all if we were convinced of this. This is what is important about the Course. There are things we don't understand about this journey, but they are not the focus of our learning. The focus is in the application of what we are being asked to do in these Lessons. It is to do the forgiveness work by bringing our awareness to our judgments and allowing the Holy Spirit to release us from them.

As you enter the quiet of your mind in your practice and find the peace there, you will see everything differently when your attention comes back to the world. When peace is brought to your relationships, people will respond differently as you become a reflection of the love and peace you have connected with in your mind. This is what the Course offers us as we do the work of forgiveness. Our investment in the world is lessened, so while we seem to be in the world, we nevertheless no longer feel so much a part of it. Our experiences in the world do not have the same value as we gave them before. While we are in the world, we don't have to invest in the experiences of this world as we have always done. We can bring peace to any situation when peace prevails in our minds. We will be ready for the real world only when our identification with this body and the world of time and space no longer have a hold on us.

This is our work, while we are here. (W.169.11.1) We will have moments where we experience being outside of time "but for a little while." (W.169.12.3) Jesus says that is enough for now. "The interval suffices." (W.169.13.1) It is what comes as a result of true forgiveness. "It is here that miracles are laid." (W.169.13.2) The experience of the holy instant, evident to others, is a result of the glow that comes from us and is the gift we bring to our brothers and sisters on our return. That is why Jesus says, "Be grateful to return" (W.169.14.1) to the world of time because we need to bring our gifts back for everyone else because they are all a part of us. What we receive we give. Now we identify less with the body and more and more with the love in our minds. It is a journey that will take as long as it needs to take. Jesus is loving and patient with us and is not hurrying us along, only encouraging and supporting. We too are called to be gentle with ourselves and with everyone else.

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58 All separation vanishes as holiness is shared. For holiness is power, and by sharing it, it gains in strength. If you seek for satisfaction in gratifying your needs as you perceive them, you must believe that strength comes from another, and what you gain he loses. Someone must always lose if you perceive yourself as weak. Yet there is another interpretation of relationships which transcends the concept of loss of power completely.

 

59 You do not find it difficult to believe that, when another calls on God for love, your call remains as strong. Nor do you think that, by God's answer to him, your hope of answer is diminished. On the contrary, you are far more inclined to regard his success as witness to the possibility of yours. That is because you recognize, however dimly, that God is an idea, and so your faith in Him is strengthened by sharing. What you find difficult to accept is the fact that, like your Father, you are an idea. And like Him, you can give yourself completely, wholly without loss, and only with gain.

 

60 Herein lies peace, for here there is no conflict. In the world of scarcity, love has no meaning, and peace is impossible. For gain and loss are both accepted, and so no one is aware that perfect love is in him. In the holy instant, you recognize the idea of love in you and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it and could not relinquish it. By holding it within itself, there was no loss. The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss, but completion. From this it follows you can only give. And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

 

61 In the holy instant, the laws of God prevail, and only they have meaning. The laws of this world cease to hold any meaning at all. When the Son of God accepts the laws of God as what he gladly wills, it is impossible that he be bound or limited in any way. In this instant, he is as free as God would have him be. For the instant he refuses to be bound, he is not bound.

 

62 In the holy instant, nothing happens that has not always been. Only the veil that has been drawn across reality is lifted. Nothing has changed. Yet the awareness of changelessness comes swiftly as the veil of time is pushed aside. No one who has not yet experienced the lifting of the veil and felt himself drawn irresistibly into the light behind it can have faith in love without fear. Yet the Holy Spirit gives you this faith because He offered it to me and I accepted it. Fear not the holy instant will be denied you, for I denied it not. And through me the Holy Spirit gave it unto you, as you will give it. Let no need that you perceive obscure your need of this. For in the holy instant, you will recognize the only need the aspects of the Son of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what is needed.

 

63 It is through us that peace will come. Join me in the idea of peace, for in ideas minds can communicate. If you would give yourself as your Father gives His Self, you will learn to understand selfhood. And therein is love's meaning understood. But remember that understanding is of the mind and only of the mind. Knowledge is therefore of the mind, and its conditions are in the mind with it. If you were not only an idea and nothing else, you could not be in full communication with all that ever was. Yet as long as you prefer to be something else, or would attempt to be nothing else and something else together, the language of communication, which you know perfectly, you will not remember.

 

64 In the holy instant God is remembered, and the language of communication with all your brothers is remembered with Him. For communication is remembered together, as is truth. There is no exclusion in the holy instant because the past is gone and with it goes the whole basis for exclusion. Without its source, exclusion vanishes. And this permits your Source and that of all your brothers to replace it in your awareness. God and the power of God will take their rightful place in you, and you will experience the full communication of ideas with ideas. Through your ability to do this, you will learn what you must be, for you will begin to understand what your Creator is and what His creation is along with Him.

 

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