LESSON THIRTY-SEVEN

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 holiness blesses the world.

This is quite natural for minds are joined.

Perhaps it might be clearer to say that All is Mind, for then it may be easier to understand Your connection with pebbles on the beach: easier to understand that they do not so much have a mind as that All they are is Consciousness.  Thus, it’s just like You.

¹ This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness.

– This does not mean why You are in the dream.  That’s plain willfulness!  This speaks of Your True Function  – shared with All of God’s Ideas – to bear witness to Your unique and Holy experience of All That Is. –

Thus are you and the world blessed together. No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due.

– Is this not Real Love, this willingness to see All as It is?  Love is the acknowledgement of Reality, right where an ego seems to be. –

And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God. 

This Gift is not only for Your Brother.  It is Yours as well.  The Gift You give Your Brother becomes Yours.  The Gift You give that pebble on the beach is Yours as well.  For You have heard its Voice, and its Voice is Love.

² There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world’s thinking. Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand payment of someone or something. As a result, the perceiver will lose. Nor will he have any idea why he is losing. Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through your vision. Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

The one word that describes the ego mentality is needy.  Having separated itself off from All, it is incomplete constantly, always needing something to fulfill it.  Yet it need but include and let itself be included to find again its ‘lost’ Peace and Happiness.

You cannot be Whole without Your Brother.  Know Yourself as Whole, and You are Holy, for You have been willing to rejoin Your Brothers once again.

³ Your holiness is the salvation of the world. It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed, along with you.

For what You are is Your Brother also, asr the two of You are One, for You have again accepted that You are the Son.

Happiness is Yours, but for the asking.  And received, it cries out to be given.

Make no distinction between ‘people’ and ‘things’ for All Reality is but God.

⁴ Today’s four longer exercise periods, each to involve three to five minutes of practice, begin with the repetition of the idea for today followed by a minute or so of looking about you as you apply the idea to whatever you see:

⁵ My holiness blesses this chair.
My holiness blesses that window.
My holiness blesses this body.

⁶ Then close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you, using his name and saying:

⁷ My holiness blesses you, [name].

⁸ You may continue the practice period with your eyes closed; you may open your eyes again and apply the idea for today to your outer world if you so desire; you may alternate between applying it to what you see around you and to those who are in your thoughts; or you may use any combination of these two phases of application which you prefer. The practice period should conclude with a repetition of the idea made with your eyes closed and another following immediately with your eyes open.

For the inner world and outer world are but One and the same.

⁹ The shorter exercises consist of repeating the idea as often as you can. It is particularly helpful to apply it silently to anyone you meet, using his name as you do so. It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness.

Dear Brother feeling separated, I do include You as My Holy Self, for You are just like Me.

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[Thank you Dear Brother]