LESSON THIRTY-FIVE

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.

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Therefore, I too am part of God and very Holy.  Let’s these words sink deep into Your mind.  For what God is are You as well.

Believing Yourself to be an ego, You have not let Yourself experience Be-ing Presenced by the Father.  Instead, You have but projected egodom on to Him.  How unfair this has been to You and All Your Brothers.

¹ Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now.

That’s an understatement.  You have but planted Yourself firmly in egodom and let Your roots grow deep.  However, they are planted in absolutely nothing, so nothing so-called ‘physical’ can stop Your gaining Your freedom.

Let Us read further.

It does, however, describe what vision will show you. It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

And the entire dream does rest firmly upon this belief.

² You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. The image is part of it. What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. This is not vision. Images cannot see.

So You do insist upon dreaming, and surround Yourself with one dream after another and think them to be continuous ‘reality’.

³ The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself. By establishing your Source, it establishes your identity, and it describes you as you must really be in truth.

– God’s Son.  Today’s Lesson brings God into the picture, front and center. –

We will use a somewhat different kind of application for today’s idea, because the emphasis for today is on the perceiver rather than on what he perceives.

So dear Perceiver – Son of God, Yourself – You see, You really are not a ‘human’, for You’re just like God, Your Source, pure Divinity.

To understand Yourself Divine is harder than My dictum to “Love Your enemies.”  And yet, quite necessary if You would Love as I do.

Only ‘humans’ take offense at Others.  Be-ing Divine – Your Mind so Holy and so lovely – recognizes a call for Love and does gladly supply It.

⁴ For each of the three five-minute practice periods today, begin by repeating today’s idea to yourself and then close your eyes and search your mind for the various kinds of descriptive terms in which you see yourself. Include all of the ego-based attributes which you ascribe to yourself, positive or negative, desirable or undesirable, grandiose or debased. All of them are equally unreal, because you do not look upon yourself through the eyes of holiness.

⁵ In the earlier part of the mind searching period, you will probably emphasize what you consider to be the more negative aspects of your perception of yourself. Toward the latter part of the exercise period, however, more self-inflating descriptive terms may well cross your mind. Try to recognize that the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter. Illusions have no direction in reality. They are merely not true.

⁶ A suitable unselected list for applying the idea for today might be as follows:

⁷ I see myself as imposed on.
I see myself as depressed.
I see myself as failing.
I see myself as endangered.
I see myself as helpless.
I see myself as victorious.
I see myself as losing out.
I see myself as charitable.
I see myself as virtuous.

That’s the ego for You, either a victim or aggressor.

⁸ You should not think of these terms in an abstract way. They will occur to you as various situations, personalities and events in which you figure cross your mind. Pick up any specific situation that occurs to you, identify the descriptive term or terms which you feel are applicable to your reactions to that situation, and use them in applying today’s idea. After you have named each one, add:

⁹ But my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

¹⁰ During the longer exercise periods, there will probably be intervals in which nothing specific occurs to you. Do not strain to think up specific things to fill the interval, but merely relax and repeat today’s idea slowly until something occurs to you. Although nothing that does occur should be omitted from the exercises, nothing should be “dug out” with effort. Neither force nor discrimination should be used.

¹¹ As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them, adding the idea to each of them in the form stated above. If nothing particular occurs to you, merely repeat the idea to yourself with closed eyes.

The glad realization that this Lesson is the Truth will truly save You any* more so-called ‘lifetimes’ of pain and error.

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TRANSCRIBER NOTE: * When I first heard the words, I heard ‘many’, transcribed it, and He said: “ANY, not many!!”

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[Thank you Dear Brother]