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Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart.
For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union, as you are.
In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for truth is union.
As darkness disappears in light, so ignorance fades away when knowledge dawns.
Perception is the medium by which ignorance is brought to knowledge.
Yet the perception must be without deceit, for otherwise it becomes the messenger of ignorance rather than a helper in the search for truth.
The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with truth. Truth is. It can neither be lost nor sought nor found. It is there, wherever you are, being within you.
The new beginning now becomes the focus of the curriculum. The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it.
The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step.
Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted.
And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear.
They are not new to you, but they are more ideas than rules of thought to you as yet. So now we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live.
We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need.
Look straight at every image that rises to delay you, for the goal is inevitable because it is eternal. The goal of love is but your right, and it belongs to you despite your dreams.
For we ascend unto the Father together, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, for such is the nature of God's Son as his Father created him.
Do not underestimate the power of the devotion of God's Son, nor the power the god he worships has over him. For he places himself at the altar of his god, whether it be the god he made or the God Who created him.
That is why his slavery is as complete as his freedom, for he will obey only the god he accepts.
The god of crucifixion demands that he crucify, and his worshippers obey. In his name they crucify themselves, believing that the power of the Son of God is born of sacrifice and pain.
The God of resurrection demands nothing, for He does not will to take away. He does not require obedience, for obedience implies submission. He would only have you learn your will and follow it, not in the spirit of sacrifice and submission, but in the gladness of freedom.
Greetings and Blessings ......On this day the memory of the Birth of Christ ..seemingly 2010 years ago!
As I was watching the BBC broadcast of the Christmas-mass in St Peters with the Pope in all its speldor, I could not help but wonder how great the distance between the stable of the Birth of Jesus and this show.
In all that time the wealth accumulated by the message of Jesus is rather amazing and also to me a little sad.
The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. He comes demanding nothing.
No sacrifice of any kind, of anyone, is asked by Him. In His Presence the whole idea of sacrifice loses all meaning. For He is Host to God.
And you need but invite Him in Who is there already, by recognizing that His Host is One, and no thought alien to His Oneness can abide with Him there.
Love must be total to give Him welcome, for the Presence of holiness creates the holiness that surrounds it. No fear can touch the Host Who cradles God in the time of Christ, for the Host is as holy as the Perfect Innocence which He protects, and Whose power protects Him.
This Christmas give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together by releasing everyone with us.
Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted it with me you will give it with me.
All pain and sacrifice and littleness will disappear in our relationship, which is as innocent as our relationship with our Father, and as powerful. Pain will be brought to us and disappear in our presence, and without pain there can be no sacrifice.
And without sacrifice there love must be.
The ego can accept the idea that return is necessary because it can so easily make the idea seem difficult. Yet the Holy Spirit tells you that even return is unnecessary, because what never happened cannot be difficult.
However, you can make the idea of return both necessary and difficult. Yet it is surely clear that the perfect need nothing, and you cannot experience perfection as a difficult accomplishment, because that is what you are.
This is the way in which you must perceive God's creations, bringing all of your perceptions into the one line the Holy Spirit sees. This line is the direct line of communication with God, and lets your mind converge with His.
There is no conflict anywhere in this perception, because it means that all perception is guided by the Holy Spirit, Whose Mind is fixed on God. Only the Holy Spirit can resolve conflict, because only the Holy Spirit is conflict-free.
He perceives only what is true in your mind, and extends outward only to what is true in other minds.
You are indeed the light of the world with such a function. The Son of God looks to you for his redemption. It is yours to give him, for it belongs to you.
Accept no trivial purpose or meaningless desire in its place, or you will forget your function and leave the Son of God in hell.
This is no idle request that is being asked of you. You are being asked to accept salvation that it may be yours to give.
Recognizing the importance of this function, we will be happy to remember it very often today.
We will begin the day by acknowledging it, and close the day with the thought of it in our awareness.
And throughout the day we will repeat this as often as we can:
The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. I am the means God has appointed for the salvation of the world.
