I loose the world from all I thought it was.
* Do not beat yourself up when you are not able to maintain the buoyancy of spirit when you must enter the physical presence of those who believe that they would just as soon strike you down. Energetic “attacks” within the world that is NOT REAL can still feel heavy. Remember that this is only temporary and you will recover.
*Yeah, I find myself recovering from this today. Mother’s Day does that to me from a lot of different directions. It is not an uncommon feeling.
1. What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?
* This does apply to every part of the Son of God and is why you will still see the world of illusion once you have accepted the truth.
* You will “see” through eyes of Father and the COMFORT/PROTECTION of SPIRIT what the world of illusion is really doing behind its cloak of “smoke and mirrors” that resembles the Love of God but is HATE in diquise.
* From the Atonement and in God’s Mind and Will you also KNOW how false that world is AND that it cannot harm you eternally in any way. Thereafter you allow God to take you where He Wills and place your TRUST IN HYMN and not in the illusion of :smoke and mirrors.”
²And what can save the world except your Self?
* Or you ACCEPTANCE of your True Self as a part of the Son of God.
³Belief is powerful indeed.
⁴The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.
⁵A madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it.
⁶Nor can he be swayed by questioning his thoughts’ effects.
⁷It is but when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.
* In other words, YOU decide when you are set free.
2. Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it.
²Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think.
³You free the past from what you thought before.
⁴You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.
* it occurs to me that this could be seeking wealth, health, God, security, and so on because in the guilt and fear of what we believe to be our reality of separation we know we are not worthy of all of these things.
3. The present now remains the only time.
* Herein is our obsession with the magnificent NOW. Yet without recognition of God and your complete reliance on HYMN you have no NOW. I saw a quote of Eckhart Toole’s that said in short “don’t think” but if you do not use your mind or thoughts to remember God you are still in the Matrix, trapped without connection or even existence.
²Here in the present is the world set free.
* ONLY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD IS THE WORLD SET FREE.
³For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.
⁴You have enslaved the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears; and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs.
⁵Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind.
4. The world is nothing in itself.
* DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP and think you have not done your part when the energetic spears (think holiday depression or weight) seem impossible to lift.
* Be patient with yourself. Remember that GOD IS THE ONLY TRUTH, and proceed gently and with care for yourself.
²Your mind must give it meaning.
³And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.
* Knowing what is REAL and what is NOT is important here.
⁴Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning.
* Yes, you are a part of the mindset that created the world of chaos that we currently see, however, you have forgiven both yourself and every other part of creation, IE. Christ, for the errors manifested by belief in separation from God.
⁵Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came.
5. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. ²Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly.
³Ideas leave not their source.
⁴This central theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today.
⁵It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.
6. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is.
²There is no world!
³This is the central thought the course attempts to teach.
* THAT IS BULLSHIT taken the way it is stated and it has been misused to cover up a lot of mischief, theft, and destruction.
⁴Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth.
⁵He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again.
* This, too, is misleading because it is clear in other parts of the Course and the teachings of Jesus that we are a part of bringing healing to the world and seeing the Heaven that is here in remembrance of the Presence of God.
7. But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now.
* THERE IS NO WORLD OF CHAOS OR SEPARATION FROM GOD WOULD BE TRUE AND THIS MAY BE WHAT WAS BEING SAID THAT DID NOT GET WRITTEN OR MAYBE GOT ALTERED AFTER THE FACT.
²Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize.
³Some see it suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it.
⁴Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world.
8. And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today.
²Today’s idea is true because the world does not exist.
³And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances.
⁴The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.
9. A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm foundation for today’s idea.
²You are as God created you.
³There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state.
⁴How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?
* This mingles the idea of seeing form as what you are. This IDEA MUST BE LET GO OF, but that does not mean that there is not a world before you that is there for you to ENJOY.
* Am I comparing apples and oranges in what the lesson is saying? Perhaps. This is why it is so very important to process all you experience through the lens of SPIRIT and turn it ALL over to God.
10. What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world?
²To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself.
³There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought.
* I hold fast to the world that the Atonement has shown me within and embrace TRUST IN FATHER to make it manifest in His Way and TIME.
11. Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love.
²Are these inherent in the world you see?
³Does it create like Him?
⁴Unless it does, it is not real, and cannot be at all.
⁵If you are real the world you see is false, for God’s creation is unlike the world in every way.
⁶And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.
12. Release the world!
* Release the world of chaos from being real!
²Your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth.
³God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself.
⁴What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from Him.
* I stand behind THIS STATEMENT 100%.
13. There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness.
* There is an IMAGE placed over the world we see in our delusion of separation from God to imply this, YES.
²Can a world which comes from this idea be real?
* NO. Please, understand it is ideas that are being spoken of here, and no, I am not saying “form” itself is real in God but I am saying that “form that is seen as embodying God and His Son” is able to bless us and we do not have to deny that part of existence.
³Can it be anywhere?
⁴Deny illusions, but accept the truth.
⁵Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world.
⁶Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.
14. Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it.
²They can not be there.
³No more can we.
⁴For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them.
⁵And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.
15. Begin the fifteen-minute periods in which we practice twice today with this:
²I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was.
³For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.
⁴Then merely rest, alert but with no strain, and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed, along with you.
16. You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts to bless the world.
²But you will sense your own release, although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone.
* We are not released “alone” but WE MUST INDIVIDUALLY choose to be released.
17. Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind:
²I loose the world from all I thought it was, and choose my own reality instead.
(ACIM, W-132.1:1–17:2)
* I have much love and appreciation for each of you, regardless of the costumes you think you wear or the wrongs you might believe you have done.
Till next time, God Bless, debi.
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