This afternoon we will talk about a later workbook lesson.
It’s in part II that closes with the line let me remember that
“myself is nothing, and my Self is all,”
and of course that has to be read in order to properly understand it.
Let me remember that myself...that’s one word, lower case...
meaning my ego is nothing and my capital S Self is all.
And so this is another way...actually it’s a very lovely line
that succinctly summarizes what this whole course is about...
that we are able to look at the ego and see its nothingness.
In fact, an Academy class that we did earlier in this year
was called, “The Ego-A Puff of Madness.”
In other words, the ego is nothing; it’s just a puff. It’s a little, tiny wisp of smoke
that is nothing and that not only is it nothing, that it’s really an insane nothing.
Let me remember that myself is nothing.
Let me remember that all my ego thoughts, all my ego feelings,
all my ego actions, behaviors, all my past seeming sins
all the mistakes I’ve made, all have had absolutely no effect
on the Love of God in me or the Love of God in anyone else.
They’ve had absolutely no effect on Heaven.
Not one note in Heaven’s song is missed.
Let me remember that myself is nothing,
and the only way I could do this is to continually choose
the Teacher...the inner Teacher, Jesus or the Holy Spirit...
whenever I’m tempted to give significance, to give meaning,
to give importance, to give power, to give causative energy
to anything in the outside world, including the world of my body,
anything to affect me; anything to take away
the love and the peace of God in me.
Any time I do that, any time I feel anything I am feeling is due
to a cause other than my mind’s decision...any time I attribute
cause, a causative power, to anything to make me happy or sad,
bring me pleasure or pain I am saying,
“Let me remember myself is everything.”
My ego self is everything...my ego self is powerful.
It has had the power to destroy Heaven.
It’s had the power to shatter Heaven’s song.
It’s taken Heaven’s oneness and shattered it
into billions and billions of disunited pieces,
little fragments...little shadowy fragments, of the thought
“I have the power to destroy Heaven.”
Now within the dream that is certainly true
because that’s what the dream is based on.
Jesus tells us the origin of all dreams is fear,
and it’s the fear of God’s seeming retaliative wrath
because of what we seemingly have done to Him.
And I emphasize the “seeming” because nothing has happened.
Not one note in Heaven’s song is missed.
Nothing has happened, and whatever has seemed to have happened
is nothing and, as King Lear said,
“Nothing will come from nothing,”
and indeed nothing has come from nothing.
The whole entire cosmos is simply a projection of the thought
of nothingness that we believe had the power to replace God.
And so let me remember that myself is nothing each and every time,
once again, I’m tempted to give...let anything in the world upset me..
I think of Lesson 5, “I’m never upset for the reason I think.”
I think of Lesson 34, “I could see peace instead of this,”
and I choose the Teacher of peace.
Instead of the teacher of conflict I choose the Teacher of peace
to remind me that whatever it is I am feeling is nothing
because my capital S Self is all, and that Self rests in the All.
In fact, it rests in the All in All, as Saint Paul said of God.
He is the All in All.
We are part of that All and nothing has ever changed
that perfect Oneness of God’s perfect Son.
And we deny that truth each and every time we say,
“Your self is everything. My self is everything.”
It has the power to destroy me. Has the power to hurt.
Has the power to affect people. Has the power to lift us to the
heights of seeming Heaven or drag us down to the pits of hell.
And none of that is true except in dreams.
Let me remember that myself is nothing and my capital S Self,
the Christ that God created as one with Him,
is All. And that is the message of salvation.