skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself.
This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships.
It is a sense of actual escape from limitations.
If you will consider what this "transportation" really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you, as you unite with it.
And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate.
Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement.
All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve.
Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected.
Perfectly aware of the right defense it passes over all others, looking past error to truth.
Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service.
This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain.
As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort.
Our entire experience of frustration and mistakes comes from our reluctance to wait long enough for the Christ to take over.
Most of us are unwilling to wait until the moment in which a decision is necessary, but insist on knowing the answer in advance.
Spiritual illumination comes to us in a measure with our first investigation of truth. We believe that we are seeking good, or truth; whereas the light has begun to shine in our consciousness compelling us to take the steps we have since taken.
Every increase of our spiritual understanding has more light appearing and dispelling the darkness of sense. This inflow of illumination will continue until we come to the full realization of our true identity as “the light of the world.”
Without illumination, we struggle with the forces of the world; we labor for a living; we struggle to maintain our place and position; we compete for riches and honors.
Often we war with our own friends and even find ourselves at war with ourselves. There is no security in personal possessions even after the battle to acquire them has been won.
The law of creation is that you love your creations as yourself, because they are part of you.
Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe, because the laws of God protect it by His Love.
Any part of your mind that does not know this has banished itself from knowledge, because it has not met its conditions.
Who could have done this but you?
Recognize this gladly, for in this recognition lies the realization that your banishment is not of God, and therefore does not exist.
Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps His gifts to you are real.
Perhaps He has not wholly been outwitted by your plan to keep His Son in deep oblivion, and go the way you chose without your Self.
God's Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self.
He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will.
There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer.
That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but This.
The Son of God is part of the Holy Trinity, but the Trinity Itself is one.
There is no confusion within Its Levels, because They are of one Mind and one Will.
This single purpose creates perfect integration and establishes the peace of God.
Yet this vision can be perceived only by the truly innocent.
Because their hearts are pure, the innocent defend true perception instead of defending themselves against it.
Understanding the lesson of the Atonement they are without the wish to attack, and therefore they see truly.
This is what the Bible means when it says, "When He shall appear (or be perceived) we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."
All good teachers realize that only fundamental change will last, but they do not begin at that level.
Strengthening motivation for change is their first and foremost goal.
It is also their last and final one. Increasing motivation for change in the learner is all that a teacher need do to guarantee change.
Change in motivation is a change of mind, and this will inevitably produce fundamental change because the mind is fundamental.
