We continue today with Chapter 11
The condition of reality.
The world as you perceive it cannot have been created by
the father for the world is not as you
see it
God created only the eternal and
everything you see is perishable
therefore there must be another world
that you do not see the Bible speaks of
a new heaven and a new earth if this
cannot be literally true for the eternal
are not recreated to perceive a new is
merely to perceive again implying that
before or in the interval between you
are not proceeding at all what then is
the world that waits your perception
when you see it every loving thought
that's the Son of God ever had his
eternal the loving thoughts his mind
perceives in this world are the world's
only reality they are still perceptions
because he still believes that he is
separate yet they are eternal because
they are loving and being loving they're
like the father and therefore cannot die
the real world can actually be perceived
all that is necessary is a willingness
to perceive nothing else for if you
proceed both good and evil you are
accepting both the false and the true
and making no distinction between them
ego may see some good but never only
good that is why its perceptions are so
variable it does not reject goodness
entirely for that you could not accept
but it always had something that is not
real to the real thus confusing illusion
and reality for perceptions cannot be
partly true if you believe in truth and
illusion
you cannot tell which is true to
establish your personal autonomy you
tried to create unlike your father
bleeding that what you made is capable
of being unlike him yet everything true
is like him
perceiving only the real world will lead
you to the real heaven because it will
make you capable of understanding it the
perception of goodness is not knowledge
but the denial of the opposite of
goodness and enables you to recognize a
condition in which opposites do not
exist and this is the condition of
knowledge without this awareness you
have not met its conditions and until
you do you will not know it is yours
already
you have made many ideas that you have
placed between yourself and your Creator
and these beliefs are the world as you
perceive it
truth is not absent here but it is
obscure you do not know the difference
between what you have made and what you
have created to believe that you can
perceive the real world is to believe
that you can know yourself you can know
God because it is his will to be known
the real world is all that the Holy
Spirit has saved for you out of what you
have made and to perceive only this is
salvation because it is the recognition
that reality is only what is true.
And from the workbook lesson 84.
These are the ideas for today's review:
Love created me like itself
I am in the likeness of my Creator I cannot suffer
I cannot experience loss and I cannot die
I am NOT a body I would recognize my
reality today I will worship no idols
nor raise my own self concept to replace
myself i am in the likeness of my
Creator love created me
like itself you might find these
specific forms helpful in applying the
idea let me not see an illusion of
myself and this as I look on this let me
remember my Creator my Creator did not
create this as i see it love holds no
grievances grievances are completely
alien to love grievances attack love and
keep its light obscure if I hold
grievances I am attacking love and
therefore attacking myself myself this
becomes alien to me i am determined not
to attack myself today so that i can
remember who I am
these specific forms for applying this
idea would be helpful
this is no justification for denying
myself I will not use this to attack
love let this not tempt me to attack myself
love created me like itself
love holds no grievances
Today let us meet the condition of reality.
Let us see the world as it really is.
The real world. The forgiving world.
The happy dream the Holy Spirit holds out to the mind that wants to be aligned with the love of God.
Today let our perception be holy
Let us perceive only what God has put in our mind, only the loving thoughts.
These are perceptions in this world; but this happy dream is the way, the truth, and the life
In a manifested form that can only bless. That is healing.
It is impossible to perceive a world of opposites.
Let me make no attempt to perceive the impossible.
Today I would relinquish all attempts for personal autonomy
All attempts to try to create unlike our Heavenly Father
Today the peace of heaven, the joy in our hearts is realized.
Today we practice with these two review lessons,
in earnestly and sincerity:
Love created me like itself
Love holds no grievances
And if there is a need for variation,
these specific forms may be helpful:
Let me not see an illusion of myself in this
As I look on this let me remember my Creator
My Creator did not create this as I see it.
This is no justification for denying myself.
I will not use this to attack love.
Let this not tempt me to attack myself.
Amen