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What is the Christ?
Daily Lesson 274
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES

CH 26 "THE TRANSITION"
II. "THE 'SACRIFICE' OF ONENESS"

You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. Nor can you lose what you would sacrifice nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that it has not been lost. Hear then the song your brother sings to you. And let the world recede and take the rest his witness offers on behalf of peace. But judge him not, for you will hear no song of liberation for yourself nor see what it is given him to witness to that you may see it and rejoice with him. Make not his holiness a sacrifice to your belief in sin. You sacrifice your innocence with his and die each time you see in him a sin deserving death.
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   Christ is God's Son as He created him.
   He is the Self we share, uniting us
   with one another, and with God as well.
   He is the Thought Which still abides within
   the Mind Which is His Source. He has not left
   His holy home, nor lost the innocence
   in which He was created. He abides
   unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
  
   He is the link that keeps you one with God,
   and guarantees that separation is
   no more than an illusion of despair,
   for hope forever will abide in Him.
   Your mind is part of His, and His of yours.
   He is the part in Which God's Answer lies;
   where all decisions are already made,
   and dreams are over. He remains untouched
   by anything the body's eyes perceive.
   For though in Him His Father placed the means
   for your salvation, yet does He remain
   the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.
 
   Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home
   in God alone, does Christ remain at peace,
   within the Heaven of your holy mind.
   This is the only part of you that has
   reality in truth. The rest is dreams.
   Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ,
   to fade before His glory, and reveal
   your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.
 
   The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ
   in you to all your dreams, and bids them come
   to Him to be translated into truth.
   He will exchange them for the final dream
   which God appointed as the end of dreams.
   For when forgiveness rests upon the world
   and peace has come to every Son of God,
   what could remain to keep things separate,
   for what remains to see except Christ's face?
 
   And how long can this holy face be seen,
   when it is but the symbol that the time
   for learning now is over, and the goal
   of the Atonement has been reached at last?
   So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face,
   and look on nothing else. As we behold
   His glory, will we know we have no need
   of learning or perception or of time,
   or anything except the holy Self,
   the Christ Whom God created as His Son.   
 
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    Father, today I would let all things be
    as You created them, and give Your Sons
    the honor due their holiness; the love
    of brother to his brother and his friend.
    Through this I am redeemed. Through this as well
    the truth will enter where illusions were,
    light will replace all darkness, and Your Son
    will know he is as You created him.
 
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   from Him Who is our Father. Give this day
   to Him and there will be no fear today,
   because the day is given unto Love.
    
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Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear.    

Sarah's Commentary:


Are we ready for a day that belongs to love? If not, can we be content and satisfied to be on this learning journey where Jesus is teaching us how such a day can be achieved? On our own, with the ego as guide, we have no idea what is required to commit a day to love. We think we know what we need for our happiness, but how can we when we don't know our own best interests? We are confused about what is painful and what is pleasurable. The ego wants it that way so it keeps us looking for what can't be found. As we turn more and more to the only Teacher that does know, we will be guided on how to interpret everything in our day.

To have a day where love prevails requires that we learn we walk this path with our brother, extending "the love of brother to his brother and his Friend." (W.274.1.1) In other words, as we see the Christ in our brother we will know our own innocence as well. We are one. We have no separate interests. There is only love and nothing else. Only in this recognition will we remember our reality. Thus, we experience the stillness and the peace within us. Our decision to listen to the voice of the ego blocks this experience from our awareness. But we can decide we have been wrong and make another choice. Perhaps, when we start to recognize there is another way of looking at everything, we become willing to ask for the miracle.

The Lesson yesterday acknowledged for some of us, this day of undisturbed tranquility may not be feasible as yet. Why, because we are not yet ready. In other words, our fear is still too prevalent. We are not yet sufficiently motivated. God is not yet our only goal. This is not a reason for discouragement, as Jesus continually affirms. He tells us this experience of peace and tranquility will be available to us when we are ready for it. The outcome of our journey on this path to enlightenment is guaranteed. It is certain because it has already been accomplished. Now it is awaiting our acceptance. We just need to continue to do our part. We need not compare ourselves with anyone or use anyone as a measuring stick for our own progress. To do so is merely to focus on our perceived lacks and needs. Thus, we pray: "Father, today I would let all things be as You created them." (W.274.1.1) We let all things be exactly as they are. Where we are in our journey is what we are currently ready for. There is no reason for self-recrimination or guilt, which is the ego's response to our progress on this path.

We achieve a day of quietness, stillness and peace by learning to dismiss our disturbances that come up throughout the day. What are these disturbances? They are nothing but our own thoughts in whatever form they show up. They are the meaning we give to events and situations that come up in our day. And when these thoughts come up, what are we to do? Stop! We must be willing to look at the interpretations we are giving the person or event triggering our upset. What feelings come up? Take time to really feel what you are feeling. This is not a course in denial. What are you projecting onto others? Realize whatever the judgments are you put on your brother, there is some form of this judgment you are accusing yourself of. We are being invited to accept responsibility for our reactions and judgments as having their origin in our own unhealed minds. Now we come to a place of acceptance and willingness in seeing we have been wrong about our interpretations and we ask for help in releasing them to the Holy Spirit. Only my own mind gives strength and power to these thoughts. We simply remind ourselves today over and over with each disturbing situation, "Today belongs to love. Let me not fear." (W.274)

We may wonder how we can ever see the innocence in brothers who seem to betray us, hurt us, make demands on us or attack us. How can we see them with the eyes of Christ, which is to see their purity? Ultimately, we remember that the judgments we lay on our brothers for their sins we lay on our own heads. Thus, we are only hurting ourselves with our judgments. We only see in others our own self-judgment and self-attack. Love sees only innocence regardless of the behaviors exhibited, and when we see guilt, it is our own guilt projected out. Yet with each blessing we give our brother instead of judgment, we take a step in the direction of truly seeing who he is and thus seeing our own sinlessness.

Why do we not know the truth about ourselves now? Because we have chained ourselves to our specialness. In other words we are hostage to the ego rather than host to God. We are hostage to our obsessive thoughts to control and hold grievances. Specialness seems like a good thing in the world. But Jesus takes a different perspective on it. Specialness is not only to set ourselves apart but to set ourselves above someone else. It is winning at someone's expense. It is a thought system of one or the other. That is the thought system that seemed to buy our separate identities by annihilating God. It is a thought system where we seemed to have waged war against God and won our special, individual self. It is about putting our own needs ahead of anyone else's. It is all about bargaining to get our needs met.

None of this makes us guilty. Jesus says we have just failed to gain. "Here is deception doubled, for the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain." (W.PI.133.9.3) In other words, we only want to keep the guilt and suffer as a way to keep our specialness. When we see we have just made a mistake, and are willing to take responsibility for ourselves by withdrawing all blame from our brother, we see that our own mind is the cause of our experience. Now we can choose again. We can use every situation for healing. We can allow all things to be exactly as they are. By honoring our brothers, we see our equality with them, and with each joining with a brother, we heal our belief that we are these separate beings in competition with each other. In every opportunity we have to forgive our misperceptions of our brother, we reclaim the Oneness of our Being as we were created.
 
Today our way to God is through extending love, blessings and, yes, honor to our brothers. We give them the appreciation they deserve because of who they are in their creation. With love, there can be no fear. The choice for love casts out all fear. At the core of our identity and that of all of our brothers is our divine innocence. It is love of a brother for a brother in recognition of our sameness and the recognition of our Friend. To love God is to love our brother. Thus, when we devote a day to God, we are devoting it to our brothers. When we give a day committed to forgiveness, which is a reflection of God's Love, we can experience peace, joy, patience, gentleness, and contentment, which is our inheritance. Our self-absorption with our problems keeps us from extending love to our brothers.

Today, we set a goal to make space for that honor and blessing to extend through us. Set your intention to give this day to God, and whenever fear thoughts come up, any feelings of dismay, discouragement or depression, allow them to be given over so they can be washed away. Remind yourself Love is your goal today and thus "Let me not fear." (W.274) Fear is a sign for us to see we have chosen against the love that we are. But what is wonderful is how easily we can choose to correct our mistake and return to love. It does not matter how long it takes as long as we are using time for that purpose.
 
Love and blessings, Sarah
  
 
Chapter Twenty-Six

I. Introduction    

1 In the "dynamics" of attack is sacrifice a key idea. It is the pivot upon which all compromise, all desperate attempts to strike a bargain, and all conflicts achieve a seeming balance. It is the symbol of the central theme that somebody must lose. Its focus on the body is apparent, for it is always an attempt to limit loss. The body is itself a sacrifice-a giving up of power in the name of saving just a little for yourself. To see a brother in another body separate from yours is the expression of a wish to see a little part of him and sacrifice the rest. Look at the world, and you will see nothing attached to anything beyond itself. All seeming entities can come a little nearer or go a little farther off but cannot join.

II. The "Sacrifice" of Oneness

2 The world you see is based on "sacrifice" of oneness. It is a picture of a complete disunity and total lack of joining. Around each entity is built a wall so seeming solid that it looks as if what is inside can never reach without, and what is out can never reach and join with what is locked away within the wall. Each part must sacrifice the other part to keep itself complete. For if they joined, each one would lose its own identity, and by their separation are their selves maintained.
 
3 The little that the body fences off becomes the self, preserved through sacrifice of all the rest. And all the rest must lose this little part, remaining incomplete to keep its own identity intact. In this perception of yourself, the body's loss would be a sacrifice indeed. For sight of bodies becomes the sign that sacrifice is limited and something still remains for you alone. And for this little to belong to you are limits placed on everything outside, just as they are on everything you think is yours. For giving and receiving are the same. And to accept the limits of a body is to impose these limits on each brother whom you see. For you must see him as you see yourself.
 
4 The body is a loss and can be made to sacrifice. And while you see your brother as a body, apart from you and separate in his cell, you are demanding sacrifice of him and you. What greater sacrifice could be demanded than that God's Son perceive himself without his Father? And his Father be without His Son? Yet every sacrifice demands that they be separate and without the other. The memory of God must be denied if any sacrifice is asked of anyone. What witness to the wholeness of God's Son is seen within a world of separate bodies, however much he witnesses to truth? He is invisible in such a world. Nor can his song of union and of love be heard at all. Yet is it given him to make the world recede before his song and sight of him replace the body's eyes.
 
5 Those who would see the witnesses to truth instead of to illusion merely ask that they might see a purpose in the world that gives it sense and makes it meaningful. Without your special function has this world no meaning for you. Yet it can become a treasure house as rich and limitless as Heaven itself. No instant passes here in which your brother's holiness cannot be seen, to add a limitless supply to every meager scrap and tiny crumb of happiness that you allot yourself.
 
6 You can lose sight of oneness, but can not make sacrifice of its reality. Nor can you lose what you would sacrifice nor keep the Holy Spirit from His task of showing you that it has not been lost. Hear then the song your brother sings to you. And let the world recede and take the rest his witness offers on behalf of peace. But judge him not, for you will hear no song of liberation for yourself nor see what it is given him to witness to that you may see it and rejoice with him. Make not his holiness a sacrifice to your belief in sin. You sacrifice your innocence with his and die each time you see in him a sin deserving death.
 
7 Yet every instant can you be reborn and given life again. His holiness gives life to you, who cannot die because his sinlessness is known to God and can no more be sacrificed by you than can the light in you be blotted out because he sees it not. You who would make a sacrifice of life and make your eyes and ears bear witness to the death of God and of His holy Son, think not that you have power to make of them what God willed not they be. In Heaven God's Son is not imprisoned in a body nor is sacrificed in solitude to sin.
 
8 And as he is in Heaven, so must he be eternally and everywhere. He is the same forever-born again each instant, untouched by time, and far beyond the reach of any sacrifice of life or death. For neither did he make, and only one was given him by One Who knows His gifts can never suffer sacrifice and loss. God's justice rests in gentleness upon His Son and keeps him safe from all injustice the world would lay upon him. Could it be that you could make his sins reality and sacrifice his Father's Will for him?
 
9 Condemn him not by seeing him within the rotting prison where he sees himself. It is your special function to ensure the door be opened that he may come forth to shine on you and give you back the gift of freedom by receiving it of you. What is the Holy Spirit's special function but to release the holy Son of God from the imprisonment he made to keep himself from justice? Could your function be a task apart and separate from His Own?


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