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What is the Body?
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Sarah's Reflections
TEXT Ch 25 IV,V 23-36
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES
CH 25 "THE REMEDY"
V. "THE JOINING OF MINDS"

You makers of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides. This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest. From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon and where their hearts are glad. In you there is a vision which extends to all of them and covers them in gentleness and light. And in this widening world of light, the darkness they thought was there is pushed away until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness. And all their "evil" thoughts and "sinful" hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die will disappear before the sun you bring.
 
WHAT IS THE BODY?    
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   The body is a fence the Son of God
   imagines he has built to separate
   parts of his Self from other parts. It is
   within this fence he thinks he lives, to die
   as it decays and crumbles. For within
   this fence he thinks that he is safe from love.
   Identifying with <its safety>, he
   regards himself as <what his safety is>.
   How else could he be certain he remains
   within the body, keeping love outside?
 
   The body will not stay. Yet this he sees
   as double safety. For the Son of God's
   impermanence is "proof" his fences work,
   and do the task his mind [assigned] to them.
   For if his oneness still remained untouched,
   who could attack and who could be attacked?
   Who could be victor? Who could be his prey?
   Who could be victim? Who the murderer?
   And if he did not die, what proof is there
   that God's eternal Son [has] been destroyed?
 
   The body is a dream. Like other dreams,
   it sometimes seems to picture happiness,
   but can quite suddenly revert to fear,
   where every dream is born. For only love
   creates in truth, and truth can never fear.
   Made to be fearful, must the body serve
   the purpose given it. But we can change
   the purpose [which] the body will obey
   by changing what we think that it is for.
 
   The body is the means by which God's Son
   returns to sanity. Though it was made
   to fence him into hell without escape,
   yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged
   for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God
   extends his hand to reach his brother, and
   to help him walk along the road with him.
   Now is the body holy. Now it serves
   to heal the mind that it was made to kill.
 
   You will identify with what you think
   will make you safe. Whatever it may be,
   you will believe that it is one with you.
   Your safety lies in truth and not in lies.
   Love is your safety. Fear does not exist.
   Identify with love, and you are safe.
   Identify with love, and you are home.
   Identify with love, and find your Self.
 
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   Surrounding me is all the life that God  
   created in His Love. It <calls to> me
   in every heartbeat and in every breath;
   in every action and in every thought.
   Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with
   the purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind
   is healed, and all I need to save the world
   is given me. Each heartbeat [gives] me peace;
   each breath infuses me with strength. I am
   a messenger of God, directed by
   His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held
   forever quiet and at peace within
   His <loving> arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name,
   and every one is answered by His Voice,
   [directing me to be] at home in Him.
 
    Let me attend Your Answer, not my own.
    Father, my heart is beating in the peace
    the Heart of Love created. It is there
    and only there that I can be at home.
 
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All of the ten Lessons we are doing now follow the section on "What is the Body?" (W.II.Q5) It is recommended this section be read daily together with the Lesson. The body is described here as impermanent, and 'proof' that God's eternal Son can be destroyed and made to be fearful within a dream of fear. Yet, in spite of this, Jesus says, "The body is the means by which God's Son returns to sanity." (W.PII.Q5.4.1) This means the body can be turned to a new purpose, other than taking its orders from the wrong mind. It becomes our way back to healing the mind when we are no longer using it on behalf of the ego. "Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell." (W.PII.Q5.4.2)
 
What, we may wonder, is the pursuit of hell? It is using the body lovelessly. To use it lovelessly is to use it for attack and gather guilt for itself. We send it on missions to bring us what we believe will serve us, yet what we get is more pain and suffering. Yet when we turn to the Holy Spirit and listen to His Voice to guide our actions, the body will become an instrument for expressing and extending love in the world. "Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly." (T.8.VIII.9.9)(ACIM OE T.8.VIII.79) To use it in service to the Holy Spirit is to use it for the purpose of forgiveness. Forgiveness is a reflection of God's Love in this world and is the closest we come to that love when we forgive completely. Only in complete forgiveness do we feel our hearts beating in the peace of God. We can never feel that peace while we are sending the body on missions that serve the ego.
 
"I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms." (W.267.1.6) This raises the question as to whether the Course is about healing the mind or about behavior. This is what Ken Wapnick says about this question. "The Course does not give any guidelines for behavior on the level of form. Rather, it is teaching us to expose the thoughts and judgments we hold about ourselves and others in our minds, so the mind can be healed. Only then will the characteristics of a teacher of God, described in the Manual, flow naturally from the healed mind. They are not meant to be 'exercised' or 'practiced' while there are underlying beliefs that oppose them." In other words, the Course is only about healing of our false concepts and beliefs. When they are healed, behavior follows. As Jesus tells us, "You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive correctly." (T.1.III.6.5)(ACIM OE T.1.I.64)

Further he says, "I have said that you cannot change your mind by changing your behavior, but I have also said, and many times, that you can change your mind." (T.4.IV.2.1)(ACIM OE T.4.V.57)
 
"I have enjoined you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the same Mind to do this. This Mind is the Holy Spirit, Whose Will is for God always. He teaches you how to keep me as the model for your thought, and to behave like me as a result." (T.5.II.12.1-3) (ACIM OE T.5.IV.30)
 
"Yet we have learned that behavior is not the level for either teaching or learning, since you can act in accordance with what you do not believe." (T.7.V.2.4)(ACIM OE T.7.VI.40)

And later in the text, "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world." (T.21.in.1.7) (ACIM OE T.21.I.1)

In perhaps the clearest discussion of this point in the Course, Jesus says, "You would not excuse insane behavior on your part by saying you could not help it. Why should you condone insane thinking? There is a confusion here that you would do well to look at clearly. You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think." (T.2.VI.2.2-5)(ACIM OE T.2.IV.73) "It is pointless to believe that controlling the outcome of misthought can result in healing." (T.2.VI.3.1)(ACIM OE T.2 .IV. 74) "You must change your mind, not your behavior, and this is a matter of willingness. You do not need guidance except at the mind level. Correction belongs only at the level where change is possible. Change does not mean anything at the symptom [behavioral] level, where it cannot work." (T.2.VI.3.4-7)(ACIM OE T.2 .IV. 74)

Everything in us yearns for God. "Each heartbeat calls His Name," (W.267.1.7) and with each call, we are answered. We continually have His Answer, and if we don't hear it, we are listening to our own voice. We are surrounded by "all the life that God created in His Love." (W.267.1.1) Somewhere in us, we know that this is true. We know that any substitute we try to find in the world to make us happy invariably does not completely fill our longing for our home. We yearn for peace, and "It is there and only there that I can be at home," (W.267.2.3) in the "Heart of Love." (W.267.2.2) 

Jesus reminds us there is nothing that God can give us except the knowledge of Himself. "What else is there to give? The belief that you could give and get something else, something outside yourself, has cost you the awareness of Heaven and of your Identity." (T.18.VI.2.2-3)(ACIM OE T.18.VII.50) We have made the body. "Would you not have the instruments of separation reinterpreted as means for salvation, and used for purposes of love?" (T.18.VI.5.1) (ACIM OE T.18.VII.53)
 
With desire comes an expansion of awareness, which "calls to you to be yourself, within its safe embrace." (T.18. VI.14.3)(ACIM OE T.18.VII.62) This really resonates with me. Don't we all experience how much energy goes into holding up the image and the self-concept we have made? It is very tiring. Bringing shame and guilt to the surface and bringing our secret thoughts out of the darkness, creates space for the light we are to shine through. We don't easily do this because we judge some thoughts and some beliefs to have more value than others. We think a small irritation is more acceptable than murderous thoughts, but thoughts are all the same. They all take away our peace. There is no order of differences in the illusion.
 
A release is offered in the holy instant when we experience the truth that we are truly safe in the Arms of Love and nothing else is real. But this can only be felt when all that interferes with peace is released through forgiveness. Peace is not found in our memories of the past nor in some future goals. Jesus says, "Perhaps you think it is your childhood home that you would find again. The childhood of your body, and its place of shelter, are a memory now so distorted that you merely hold a picture of a past that never happened. Yet there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father's house, and knows that He is alien here. This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever." (W.PI.182.4.1-4)

"It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. It is this Child Who knows His Father. He desires to go home so deeply, so unceasingly, His voice cries unto you to let Him rest a while. He does not ask for more than just a few instants of respite; just an interval in which He can return to breathe again the holy air that fills His Father's house." (W.PI.182.5.1-4)
 
Can you feel this deep yearning in your heart? This deep yearning and this deep desire keeps us on this path. This yearning keeps us motivated to do this work. With every breath today, and with every heartbeat, let us remember why we are here and put our minds to this holy purpose of extending the love we are to our brothers. Now the body is made holy by how it is used by the right mind rather than how we treat it to try to maintain its well-being. Our healed thoughts are expressed through the body and thus reinforce the sanity in the mind. Thus, the behaviors will follow naturally from our healed thoughts.

Let peace fill your heart and flood your body with the purpose of forgiveness today, (W.267.1.3) so your healed mind can extend to all. Thus, our call to Him is answered and our own thoughts are cleared away so we can hear the still quiet Voice of Truth. Today we choose God's Answer in everything rather than our own.
 
Love and blessings, Sarah
  
 
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 The Remedy   

IV. The Fundamental Law of Perception          

23 To the extent to which you value guilt, to that extent will you perceive a world in which attack is justified. To the extent to which you recognize that guilt is meaningless, to that extent will you perceive attack cannot be justified. This is in strict accord with vision's fundamental law: you see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there. Perception has no other law than this. The rest but stems from this, to hold it up and offer it support. This is perception's form adapted to this world of God's more basic law that love creates itself and nothing but itself.
 
24 God's laws do not obtain directly to a world perception rules, for such a world could not have been created by the Mind to which perception has no meaning. Yet are His laws reflected everywhere. Not that the world where this reflection is, is real at all. Only because His Son believes it is, and from His Son's belief He could not let Himself be separate entirely. He could not enter His Son's insanity with him, but He could be sure His sanity went there with him so he could not be lost forever in the madness of his wish.
 
25 Perception rests on choosing; knowledge does not. Knowledge has but one law because it has but one Creator. But this world has two who made it, and they do not see it as the same. To each it has a different purpose, and to each it is a perfect means to serve the goal for which it is perceived. For specialness it is the perfect frame to set it off-the perfect battleground to wage its wars, the perfect shelter for the illusions which it would make real. Not one but it upholds in its perception; not one but can be fully justified.
 
26 There is another Maker of the world, the simultaneous Corrector of the mad belief that anything could be established and maintained without some link that kept it still within the laws of God; not as the law itself upholds the universe as God created it, but in some form adapted to the need the Son of God believes he has. Corrected error is the error's end. And thus has God protected still His Son, even in error. There is another purpose in the world that error made because it has another Maker Who can reconcile its goal with His Creator's purpose. In His perception of the world, nothing is seen but justifies forgiveness and the sight of perfect sinlessness. Nothing arises but is met with instant and complete forgiveness.
 
27 Nothing remains an instant to obscure the sinlessness that shines unchanged beyond the pitiful attempts of specialness to put it out of mind where it must be and light the body up instead of it. The lamps of Heaven are not for it to choose to see them where it will. If it elects to see them elsewhere from their home, as if they lit a place where they could never be, and you agree, then must the Maker of the world correct your error, lest you remain in darkness where the lamps are not. Everyone here has entered darkness, yet no one has entered it alone. [Nor need he stay more than an instant.] For he has come with Heaven's Help within him ready to lead him out of darkness into light at any time.
 
28 The time he chooses can be any time, for help is there, awaiting but his choice. And when he chooses to avail himself of what is given him, then will he see each situation that he thought before was means to justify his anger turned to an event which justifies his love. He will hear plainly that the calls to war he heard before are really calls to peace. He will perceive that where he gave attack is but another altar where he can with equal ease and far more happiness bestow forgiveness. And he will reinterpret all temptation as just another chance to bring him joy. How can a misperception be a sin? Let all your brother's errors be to you nothing except a chance for you to see the workings of the Helper given you to see the world He made, instead of yours.
 
29 What then is justified? What do you want? For these two questions are the same. And when you see them as the same, your choice is made. For it is seeing them as one that brings release from the belief there are two ways to see. This world has much to offer to your peace and many chances to extend your own forgiveness. Such its purpose is to those who want to see peace and forgiveness descend on them and offer them the light.
 
30 The Maker of the world of gentleness has perfect power to offset the world of violence and hate that seems to stand between you and His gentleness. It is not there in His forgiving eyes. And therefore it need not be there in yours. Sin is the fixed belief perception cannot change. What has been damned is damned and damned forever, being forever unforgivable. If then it is forgiven, sin's perception must have been wrong. And thus is change made possible. The Holy Spirit too sees what He sees as far beyond the chance of change. But on His vision sin cannot encroach, for sin has been corrected by His sight. And thus it must have been an error, not a sin. For what it claimed could never be has been. Sin is attacked by punishment and so preserved. But to forgive it is to change its state from error into truth.
 
31 The Son of God could never sin, but he can wish for what would hurt him. And he has the power to think he can be hurt. What could this be except a misperception of himself? Is this a sin or a mistake, forgivable or not? Does he need help or condemnation? Is it your purpose that he be saved or damned? Forgetting not that what he is to you will make this choice your future? For you make it now, the instant when all time becomes a means to reach a goal. Make then your choice. But recognize that in this choice the purpose of the world you see is chosen and will be justified. 

V. The Joining of Minds

32 Minds that are joined and recognize they are can feel no guilt. For they cannot attack, and they rejoice that this is so, seeing their safety in this happy fact. Their joy is in the innocence they see. And thus they seek for it because it is their purpose to behold it and rejoice. Everyone seeks for what will bring him joy as he defines it. It is not the aim as such that varies. Yet it is the way in which the aim is seen that makes the choice of means inevitable and beyond the hope of change unless the aim is changed. And then the means are chosen once again, as what will bring rejoicing is defined another way and sought for differently.
 
33 Perception's basic law could thus be said, "You will rejoice at what you see because you see it to rejoice." And while you think that suffering and sin will bring you joy, so long will they be there for you to see. Nothing is harmful or beneficent apart from what you wish. It is your wish that makes it what it is in its effects on you. Because you chose it as a means to gain these same effects, believing them to be the bringers of rejoicing and of joy. Even in Heaven does this law obtain. The Son of God creates to bring him joy, sharing his Father's purpose in his own creation that his joy might be increased and God's along with his.
 
34 You makers of a world that is not so, take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides. This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain. From you can come their rest. From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon and where their hearts are glad. In you there is a vision which extends to all of them and covers them in gentleness and light. And in this widening world of light, the darkness they thought was there is pushed away until it is but distant shadows, far away, not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness. And all their "evil" thoughts and "sinful" hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die will disappear before the sun you bring.
 
35 Would you not do this for the love of God? And for yourself? For think what it would do for you. Your "evil" thoughts that haunt you now will seem increasingly remote and far away from you. And they go farther and farther off because the sun in you has risen that they may be pushed away before the light. They linger for a while, a little while, in twisted forms too far away for recognition and are gone forever. And in the sunlight you will stand in quiet, in innocence, and wholly unafraid. And from you will the rest you found extend, so that your peace can never fall away and leave you homeless. Those who offer peace to everyone have found a home in Heaven the world cannot destroy. For it is large enough to hold the world within its peace.
 
36 In you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. What aim can supersede the Will of God and of His Son that Heaven be restored to him for whom it was created as his only home? Nothing before and nothing after it. No other place, no other state nor time. Nothing beyond nor nearer. Nothing else. In any form. This can you bring to all the world and all the thoughts that entered it and were mistaken for a little while. How better could your own mistakes be brought to truth than by your willingness to bring the light of Heaven with you as you walk beyond the world of darkness into light?


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