LESSON THIRTEEN

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.

A meaningless world engenders fear.

What We cannot understand is always fearful because We cannot control it   And yet ‘control’ is but meaningless to Reality for All is Unity.  The Sun needs not to control the Rays, for the Rays are the Sun. In likewise manner, God and All are One.

Until the seeming separation of the Son of God All of Me moved in harmony with All the Rest of Me.  We see examples of this in the dream in many forms of art: choirs, orchestras, Chinese acrobatics, just to name a few.  And We feel uplifted and inspired.  They touch a part of Us that the self-aggrandizing ego does not understand.

This Oneness does not eliminate Your Individuality.  Far from it!  Rather, It but brings out Its Perfection.

Fear is a stranger to Reality, for it is but false evidence appearing real, shadows that disappear with coming of the Light.

Reality is rich with meaning.  And right where unreality and meaninglessness abound stands Reality awaiting Your little willingness to be attentive to It.  Then do You see Its Glory, feel Its Love.

¹ Today’s idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.

² Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space which meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own “ideas” there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own unreality. And on this alone it is correct.

³ It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes which it does not possess and crowd it with images that do not exist. To the ego, illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego.

⁴ The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times for not more than a minute or so at most each time, are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. With eyes closed, repeat today’s idea to yourself. Then open your eyes and look about you slowly, saying:

⁵ I am looking at a meaningless world.

⁶ Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about. Then close your eyes and conclude with:

⁷ A meaningless world engenders fear because
I think I am in competition with God.

⁸ You may find it difficult to avoid resistance in one form or another to this concluding statement. Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the “vengeance” of the “enemy.” You are not expected to believe the statement at this point and will probably try to dismiss it as preposterous. Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse. This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. Do not dwell on the concluding statement, and try not even to think of it except during the exercise periods. That will suffice at present.

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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”

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