We continue today with chapter 9 the
acceptance of your brother how can you
become increasingly aware of the holy
spirit in you except by his effects you
cannot see him with your eyes or hear
him with your ears
how then can you perceive him at all if
you inspire joy and others react to joy
and you even though you are not
experiencing joy yourself there must be
something in you that is capable of
producing it if it is in you and can
produce joy and if you see that it does
produce joy in others you must be
dissociating it in yourself
it seems to you that the holy spirit
does not produce joy consistently in you
only because you do not consistently
arouse joy in others their reactions to
you are your evaluations of his
consistency when you are inconsistent
you will not always give rise to joy and
so you will not always recognize his
consistency what you offer to your
brother you offered to him because he
cannot go beyond your offering in his
giving this is not because he limits his
giving but simply because you have
limited you're receiving the decision to
receive is the decision to accept if
your brothers are part of you will you
accept them only they can teach you what
you are or you're learning as a result
of what you taught them what you call
upon in them to call upon in yourself
and as you call upon it in them it
becomes real to you God has but one son
knowing them all as one only God Himself
is more than they
but
they are not less than he is would you
know what this means if what you do to
my brother you do to me and if you do
everything for yourself because we are
part of you everything we do belongs to
you as well everyone god created as part
of you and share his glory with you
his glory belongs to him but it is
equally yours
you cannot then be less glorious than he
is God is more than you only because he
created you
but not even this would he keep from you
therefore you can create as he did and
your dissociation will not alter this
neither God's light nor yours is dim
because you do not see because the
sonship must create as one you remember
creation whenever you recognize part of
creation each part you remember has to
your wholeness because each part is
whole wholeness is indivisible but you
cannot learn up your wholeness until you
see it everywhere you can know yourself
only as God knows his son for knowledge
is shared with God when you awaken him
you will know your magnitude by
accepting his limitlessness is yours but
meanwhile you will judge it as you judge
your brothers and will accept it as you
accept his you are not yet awake but you
can learn how to waken very simply the
Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others
as you see them waken you will learn
what breaking means and because you have
chosen to wake them their gratitude and
their appreciation of what you have
given them will teach you its value they
will become the witnesses to your
reality as you were created witnesses to
God's yet when the Sun ship comes
together and accept this
one this will be known by its creations
who witness to its reality as the Sun
does to the Father miracles have no
place in eternity because they are
reparative it while you still need
healing your miracles are the only
witnesses to your reality that you can
recognize you cannot perform a miracle
for yourself because miracles our way of
giving acceptance and receiving it in
time the giving comes first
that they are simultaneous an eternity
where they cannot be separated when you
have learned they are the same the need
for time is over
eternity is one time it's only dimension
being always this cannot mean anything
to you until you remember God's open
arms and finally know his open mind like
him
you are always in his mind and with a
mind like his in your open mind you are
your creations in perfect communication
born of perfect understanding could you
but except one of them you would not
want anything of the world has to offer
everything else would be totally
meaningless God's meaning is incomplete
without you and you are incomplete
without your creations accept your
brother in this world and accept nothing
else for in him you will find your
creations because he created them with
you you will never know that you are
co-creators with God until you learn
that your brother is co-creator with you.
And from the workbook, lesson 70,
"My salvation comes from me"
All temptation is nothing more than some form of the
basic temptation not to believe the idea
for today salvation seems to come from
anywhere except from you so too does the
source of guilt you seen either guilty
or salvation is in your own mind and
nowhere else when you realize that all
guilt is solely an invention of your
mind
you also realize that guilt and
salvation must be in the same place in
understanding this you are saved the
seeming cost of accepting today's idea
is this it means that nothing outside
yourself can save you
nothing outside yourself can give you
peace but it also means that nothing
outside yourself can hurt you or disturb
your peace or upset you in anyway
today's idea places you in charge of the
universe where you belong because of
what you are
this is not a role that can be partially
accepted and you must surely begin to
see that accepting it is salvation it
may not however be clear to you why the
recognition that guilt is in your own
mind entails the realization that
salvation is there as well
God would not have put the remedy for
the sickness where it cannot help that
is the way your mind has worked but
hardly his he wants you to be healed so
he has kept the source of healing or the
need for healing lies you have tried to
do just the opposite making every
attempt
however distorted and fantastic it might
be
two separate healing from the sickness
for which it was intended and thus keep
sickness your purpose was to ensure that
healing did not occur God's purpose was
to ensure that it did today we practice
realizing that God's will and ours are
really the same in this God wants us to
be healed and we do not really want to
be sick because it makes us unhappy
therefore in accepting the idea for
today we are really an agreement with
God he does not want us to be sick
neither do we he wants us to be healed
so do we we are ready for two longer
practice periods today each of which
should last some 10 to 15 minutes we
will however still let you decide when
to undertake them we will follow this
practice for a number of lessons and
would again be well to decide in advance
when would be a good time to lay aside
for each of them and then adhering to
your own decisions as closely as
possible begin these practice periods by
repeating the idea for today having a
statement signifying your recognition
that salvation comes from nothing
outside of you you might put it this way
my salvation comes from me
it cannot come from anywhere else then
devote a few minutes with your eyes
closed to reviewing some of the external
places where you have looked for
salvation in the past in other people in
possessions in various situations and
events and in self-concepts that you saw
to make real recognize that it is not
there
and tell yourself my salvation cannot
come from any of these things my
salvation comes from me and only from me
now we will try again to reach the
lighting you which is where your
salvation is you cannot find it in the
clouds that surround the light and it is
in them you have been looking for it
it is not there it is past the clouds
and in the light beyond remember that
you will have to go through the clouds
for you can reach the light but remember
also that you have never found anything
in the cloud patterns you imagined that
endured for that you wanted since all
illusions of salvation have failed you
surely you do not want to remain in the
clouds looking faintly for idols there
when you could so easily walk on into
the light of the real salvation try to
pass the clouds by whatever means
appeals to you if it helps you think of
me holding your hand and leading you and
I assure you this will be no idle
fantasy for the short and frequent
practice periods today remind yourself
that your salvation comes from you and
nothing but your own thoughts can hamper
your progress you are free from all
external interference you are in charge
of your salvation you are in charge of
the salvation of the world say them my
salvation comes from me
nothing outside of me can hold me back
within me is the world's salvation and
my own.
My salvation comes from me.
Today we sink down inward again
toward the light.
Seeing that we take our brothers and sisters with us.
Realizing we can only find salvation in joy,
in the Holy Spirit,
in inspiring joy in everyone we meet.
The text reminds us that,
that is the way to heaven.
In the inspiration of Spirit, we inspire joy consistently in everyone.
Today we accept all our brothers as ourself.
We sink inward to the light,
allowing all thoughts to arise
all thoughts in which we have sought for meaning and purpose
in people and places and things,
in situations of this world,
in future goals and ambitions.
We have sought to accomplish salvation through form.
Today we let these thoughts of form
drift away.
We let them go in awareness.
We will not seek to find our completion in another person, in a worldly goal,
in something that we have been striving for in the world.
God did not place the answer
where the problem was not
God placed the answered for separation in the mind
where separation was believed to be real.
Whenever there is an experience of guilt
it is being generated by the ego.
Whenever there's experience of joy
this flows so easily from the Holy Spirit's teaching
so easily from the atonement.
This joy spreads to cover the entire cosmos
because there is nothing outside of mind
there is no cause outside of mind.
In sincerity and earnestly,
we sink deep into the presence of love,
as we remember:
"My salvation comes from me"
Amen