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What is the Last Judgment?
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CH 29 "THE AWAKENING"
X. "THE FORGIVING DREAM"

70 Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself. So do your childish terrors melt away and dreams become a sign that you have made a new beginning, not another try to worship idols and to keep attack. Forgiving dreams are kind to everyone who figures in the dream. And so they bring the dreamer full release from dreams of fear. He does not fear his judgment, for he has judged no one, nor has sought to be released through judgment from what judgment must impose. And all the while he is remembering what he forgot when judgment seemed to be the way to save him from its penalty.
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   Christ's Second Coming gives the Son of God
   the gift to hear the Voice for God proclaim
   that what is false is false, and what is true
   has never changed. And this the judgment is
   in which perception ends. At first you see
   a world which has accepted this as true,
   projected from a now corrected mind.
   And with this holy sight, perception gives
   a silent blessing and then disappears,
   its goal accomplished and its mission done.
 
   The final judgment on the world contains
   no condemnation. For it sees the world
   as totally forgiven, without sin,
   and wholly purposeless. Without a cause,
   and now without a function in Christ's sight,
   it merely slips away to nothingness.
   There it was born, and there it ends as well.
   And all the figures in the dream in which
   the world began go with it. Bodies now
   are useless, and will therefore fade away,
   because the Son of God is limitless.
 
   You who believed that Gods last judgment would
   condemn the world to hell along with you,
   accept this holy truth: God's judgment is
   the gift of the Correction He bestowed
   on all your errors, freeing you from them,
   and all effects they ever seemed to have.
   To fear His saving grace is but to fear
   complete release from suffering, return
   to peace, security and happiness,
   and union with your own Identity.
 
   God's final judgment is as merciful
   as every step in His appointed plan
   to save His Son, and call Him to return
   to the eternal peace He shares with him.
   Be not afraid of Love. For It alone
   can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears,
   and gently waken from his dreams of pain
   the Son whom God acknowledges as His.
   Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks
   you give it welcome. And the world awaits
   your glad acceptance, which will set it free.
 
   This is God's final judgment: "You are still
   My holy Son, forever innocent,
   forever loving and forever loved,
   as limitless as Your Creator, and
   completely changeless and forever pure.
   Therefore awaken and return to Me.
   I am Your Father, and you are My Son.

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   Perception follows judgment. Having judged,
   you therefore see what you would look upon.
   For vision merely serves to offer you
   what you would have. It is impossible
   to overlook what you would see, and fail
   to see what you have chosen to behold.
   How surely, therefore, must the real world come
   to greet the holy sight of anyone
   who takes the Holy Spirit's purpose as
   his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail
   to look upon what Christ would have him see,
   and share Christ's love for what he looks upon.
 
    I have no purpose for today except
    to look upon a liberated world,
    set free from all the judgments I have made.
    Father, this is Your Will for me today,
    and therefore it must be my goal as well.
 
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LESSON 312
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Sarah's Commentary:

This Lesson is read in the context of the Special Topic Question #10, "What Is the Last Judgment?" The Course could be summarized in the words, "what is false is false, and what is true has never changed." (W.PII.312.Q10.1.1) The problem is that we have taught ourselves to believe what is false is, indeed, true. We believe the body, sin, guilt, fear and the world of time and space are real. We believe it all ends with death, that death is real, and all the issues and problems in our life seems real to us, doesn't it? We believe our problems and the problems of the world are all real. When we have accepted the false as false, truth can shine forth.
 
Jesus is teaching the same thing over and over. It is that nothing real can be threatened (our eternal reality) and nothing unreal exists (everything of this body, personality and world we see). The real is our eternal Self. That Self is, and always has been, present, hidden by our false thoughts and our misguided perceptions and based on our judgments. Jesus makes it clear, "This is a very simple course. Perhaps you do not feel you need a course which, in the end, teaches that only reality is true. But do you believe it? When you perceive the real world, you will recognize that you did not believe it." (T.11.VIII.1)(ACIM OE T.10.VIII.74)
 
What will we perceive when we see the real world? Where we saw sin, we will only see innocence. Where we saw attack, we will only see a call for love. Where we felt afraid, we will only know our invulnerability, and where we justified our anger, we will only see justification for forgiveness. As Jesus reminds us, "He will hear plainly that the calls of 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." (T.25.III.6.6-8)(ACIM OE T.25.IV.28)

What is temptation? Temptation is anything in our lives that seems to invite us to worry, be sad, fret, get upset, attack, doubt, become depressed, frustrated, seek pleasure, or any number of invitations not to be in peace. In other words, temptation is anything that keeps us invested in the things of this world. We can only experience those kinds of feelings if we have judged a situation or event in our lives as something we want or don't want. We have judged it as good or bad, and with that judgment perception follows. What we see is just a reflection of the thoughts of judgment we hold within the mind. If you are yelling at me and I judge you are unkind, I will see you as separate from me and threatening my well-being.

To respond to every situation with love, and to see nothing that seems to happen as hurtful in any way, is true perception. Everything in our experience presents another opportunity to forgive by releasing the judgments we hold in our own minds. Our judgments are always wrong. We are now asking for another way of seeing by turning our judgments over to the Holy Spirit and asking for His interpretation of the situation. Everyone in our lives is playing their roles perfectly to assist us in our awakening because they are reflecting the judgments in our own minds. When we resist the Lessons it is because we think we can determine, on our own, what is good and what is bad for us, but we can't know. With forgiveness, we see we are all the same. We all want to know who we are. We all desire healing regardless of what it looks like. Forgiveness is the closest we will come to knowing love in this world. It is the reflection of God's Love.

We may wonder what if we give love and offer forgiveness and it seems not to be received? Lesson 197 reminds us, "It does not matter if another thinks your gifts unworthy. In his mind there is a part that joins with yours in thanking you." (W.PI.197.4.1-2) I know in my own life there have been many occasions when I have released my judgments of someone or some situation and not had any solid evidence anything had changed. Yet simply trusting the blessing was received is what is asked of us. Certainly, it is received by our own minds the instant it is given. I have experienced where, after some period of time, something will show up that demonstrates there has been a miraculous change in the relationship. For example in one situation, I got an email asking for my forgiveness after two years of no communication. It was an affirmation for me that the love is always received and I need not concern myself with the outcome. In fact, Jesus tells us in the Manual for Teachers when we give the gift, the outcome is assured. To worry whether it has been received is simply to offer attack instead of love. Attack thoughts, judgments, and condemnation all interfere with our goal of enlightenment and thus are always counterproductive. We need not judge ourselves when we do make judgments, though, as that too is the same error. Just watching our thoughts without judgment and being willing to be wrong about our perceptions is what we are called to do.
 
"The world will end in joy, because it is a place of sorrow. When joy has come, the purpose of the world has gone. The world will end in peace, because it is a place of war. When peace has come, what is the purpose of the world? The world will end in laughter, because it is a place of tears. Where there is laughter, who can longer weep." (M.14.5.1-6) All of the trials and tribulations in our lives provide us with the absolutely perfect opportunities we need for undoing our misperceptions. That is the only purpose that the world has. That is the only purpose for our seeming problems and fantasies of what we think we need for our happiness. It is to learn we see everything as we would have it be. Nothing happens without our consent, but we have a choice in how we see it. "Is this what I would have, in place of Heaven and the peace of God"? (W.185.8.8)(ACIM OE W.185.9) If we want to see differently, we must let the Holy Spirit judge for us. Everything we see is just a projection of our own minds looking back at us. The world is only a mirror of what we are holding in our mind. With changed thoughts we see a changed world. It is wonderful to know we have this kind of power in us to heal that which keeps us in despair. We are not a victim of the world we see.
   
Today we are invited to see a liberated world, set free from our judgments. In other words, the world we see now is not as it is. It is a reflection of our perception based on our interpretations. Notice how hard it is to convince someone of a different view than what they hold. They are convinced of the truth of their perceptions just as we are. Although truth is simple and always available to us, notice how much resistance there is to releasing our perceptions and beliefs that we are right about the way we see. We think that seeing with vision, which is to see through Christ's eyes, is difficult. Yet in this Lesson, Jesus assures us, all we need is the devotion and the desire. "How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit's purpose as his goal for seeing." (W.312.1.5)

If we truly want to see a world of love, innocence and peace, we will, because of our willingness to surrender our investment in being right. When our judgments are released, everyone is blessed through us.

Jesus is assuring us, we cannot fail. "And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ's Love for what he looks upon." (W.312.1.6) With determination, purpose, intention, desire and practice, we ask for help to see beyond the error so we can see the people, events, and situations in our lives as innocent, holy and washed in love. We can thus ultimately know the real world through our willingness to bring all of our judgments to the light of truth, without judging ourselves in the process of looking at our thoughts. We can choose not to invest ourselves in those thoughts. Question everything you value, believe and perceive, with total self-honesty. This is how our beliefs begin to lose their power over us and we make room for His Voice to guide our perceptions.

Love and blessings, Sarah
  
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Chapter Twenty-Nine

X. The Forgiving Dream  

61 The slave of idols is a willing slave. For willing he must be to let himself bow down in worship to what has no life and seek for power in the powerless. What happened to the holy Son of God that this could be his wish-to let himself fall lower than the stones upon the ground and look to idols that they raise him up? Hear then your story in the dream you made, and ask yourself if it be not the truth that you believe that it is not a dream. A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself. And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son.
 
62 How can God's Son awaken from the dream? It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he will waken. For the dream will seem to last while he is part of it. Judge not, for he who judges will have need of idols which will hold the judgment off from resting on himself. Nor can he know the Self he has condemned. Judge not, because you make yourself a part of evil dreams where idols are your "true" identity and your salvation from the judgment laid in terror and in guilt upon yourself.
 
63 All figures in the dream are idols made to save you from the dream. Yet they are part of what they have been made to save you from. Thus does an idol keep the dream alive and terrible, for who could wish for one unless he were in terror and despair? And this the idol represents, and so its worship is the worship of despair and terror and the dream from which they come. Judgment is an injustice to God's Son, and it is justice that who judges him will not escape the penalty he laid upon himself within the dream he made. God knows of justice, not of penalty. But in the dream of judgment, you attack and are condemned and wish to be the slave of idols which are interposed between your judgment and the penalty it brings.
 
64 There can be no salvation in the dream as you are dreaming it. For idols must be part of it to save you from what you believe you have accomplished and have done to make you sinful and put out the light within you. Little children, it is there. You do but dream, and idols are the toys you dream you play with. Who has need of toys but children? They pretend they rule the world and give their toys the power to move about and talk and think and feel and speak for them. Yet everything their toys appear to do is in the minds of those who play with them. But they are eager to forget that they made up the dream in which their toys are real, nor recognize their wishes are their own.
 
65 Nightmares are childish dreams. The toys have turned against the child who thought he made them real. Yet can a dream attack? Or can a toy grow large and dangerous and fierce and wild? This does the child believe because he fears his thoughts and gives them to the toys instead. And their reality becomes his own because they seem to save him from his thoughts. Yet do they keep his thoughts alive and real but seen outside himself, where they can turn against him for his treachery to them. He thinks he needs them that he may escape his thoughts, because he thinks the thoughts are real. And so he makes of anything a toy to make his world remain outside himself, and play that he is but a part of it.
 
66 There is a time when childhood should be passed and gone forever. Seek not to retain the toys of children. Put them all away, for you have need of them no more. The dream of judgment is a children's game in which the child becomes the father, powerful, but with the little wisdom of a child. What hurts him is destroyed; what helps him, blessed. Except he judges this as does a child, who does not know what hurts and what will heal. And bad things seem to happen, and he is afraid of all the chaos in a world he thinks is governed by the laws he made. Yet is the real world unaffected by the world he thinks is real. Nor have its laws been changed because he did not understand.
 
67 The real world still is but a dream. Except the figures have been changed. They are not seen as idols which betray. It is a dream in which no one is used to substitute for something else nor interposed between the thoughts the mind conceives and what it sees. No one is used for something he is not, for childish things have all been put away. And what was once a dream of judgment now has changed into a dream where all is joy because that is the purpose which it has. Only forgiving dreams can enter here, for time is almost over. And the forms which enter in the dream are now perceived as brothers, not in judgment but in love.
 
68 Forgiving dreams have little need to last. They are not made to separate the mind from what it thinks. They do not seek to prove the dream is being dreamed by someone else. And in these dreams a melody is heard which everyone remembers, though he has not heard it since before all time began. Forgiveness, once complete, brings timelessness so close the song of Heaven can be heard, not with the ears, but with the holiness which never left the altar which abides forever deep within the Son of God. And when he hears this song again, he knows he never heard it not. And where is time, when dreams of judgment have been put away?
 
69 Whenever you feel fear in any form-and you are fearful if you do not feel a deep content, a certainty of help, a calm assurance Heaven goes with you-be sure you made an idol and believe it will betray you. For beneath your hope that it will save you lie the guilt and pain of self-betrayal and uncertainty, so deep and bitter that the dream cannot conceal completely all your sense of doom. Your self-betrayal must result in fear, for fear is judgment, leading surely to the frantic search for idols and for death.
 
70 Forgiving dreams remind you that you live in safety and have not attacked yourself. So do your childish terrors melt away and dreams become a sign that you have made a new beginning, not another try to worship idols and to keep attack. Forgiving dreams are kind to everyone who figures in the dream. And so they bring the dreamer full release from dreams of fear. He does not fear his judgment, for he has judged no one, nor has sought to be released through judgment from what judgment must impose. And all the while he is remembering what he forgot when judgment seemed to be the way to save him from its penalty.

   

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