LESSON NINE

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The Course text is in bold face. The Guidance is in normal type In His Guidance, He has asked Me to capitalize the pronouns You and We as an acknowledgement of the Divinity of All of Us, an acknowledgement of Equality, an expression of His Love and respect for You. When You see the word ‘YOU’ capitalized in the Guidance, know that He is not just speaking to YOU, He is honoring YOU.

I see nothing as it is now.

“Well how could I, since My mind is regularly in the past, so I can repeat what I did before.  Whether it ‘worked’ or not is absolutely unimportant.  The idea of its familiarity is pleasing to Me.   How I once saw something is how it always is, for its identity is based upon My judgment.”  So speaks the ego.

The ego has but one goal, one beyond survival: it is to judge itself better than all Others.  Reality and equality are anathema to the ego, which is thoroughly addicted to being the “fairest of them all”.₁

Therefore, Every One and everything has been judged by the ego and found wanting.  Why would it shake that up by being in the present moment?

For Be-ing Present here and now means no past, no future, and therefore, no control.  Be-ing now is but complete surrender.

And it feels so good!

You have not realized the tension generated by insisting on the ego’s point of view, so very limited, so very unkind.

Let Us then – You and I – My dear Brothers, dear Sisters – look together – through My eyes of Love at how You have been holding things, to ease Your burdens.

¹ This idea obviously follows from the two preceding ones. But while you may be able to accept it intellectually, it is unlikely that it will mean anything to you as yet. However, understanding is not necessary at this point. In fact, the recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas. These exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding. You do not need to practice what you really understand. It would indeed be circular to aim at understanding and assume that you have it already.

² It is difficult for the untrained mind to believe that what seems to be pictured before it is not there. This idea can be quite disturbing and may meet with active resistance in any number of forms. Yet that does not preclude applying it. No more than that is required for these or any other exercises. Each little step will clear a little of the darkness away, and understanding will finally come to lighten every corner of the mind which has been cleared of the debris that darkens it.

³ These exercises, for which three or four practice periods are sufficient, involve looking about you and applying the idea for the day to whatever you see, remembering the need for its indiscriminate application and the essential rule of excluding nothing. For example:

⁴ I do not see this typewriter as it is now.
I do not see this key as it is now.
I do not see this telephone as it is now.

⁵ Begin with things that are nearest you, and then extend the range:

⁶ I do not see that coat rack as it is now.
I do not see that face as it is now.
I do not see that door as it is now.

⁷ It is emphasized again that while complete inclusion should not be attempted, specific exclusion must be avoided. Be sure you are honest in making this distinction. You may be tempted to obscure it.

I don’t see anything, for it is all imagination.

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¹ Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Who’s the fairest of them all?
Snow White

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[Thank you Dear Brother]

*Sun~Rose is the scribe of the recently published book, “YOU ARE LOVED AND SAFE: PREP NOTES FOR EXPERIENCING GOD’S LOVE“, Jesus’ Guidance on the Miracle Principles

She is also author of, “RADIANT LIFE: RAW FOOD AND THE PRESENCE OF LOVE”

BOTH now available on amazon.com