LESSON NINETY-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.

L e s s o n  99

Salvation is my only function here.

Again, what is salvation but Life, Truth and Love, Be-ing Me.

¹ Salvation and forgiveness are the same. They both imply that something has gone wrong-something you need to be saved from or forgiven for, something amiss that needs corrective change, something apart or different from the Will of God. Thus do both terms imply something impossible but yet which has occurred, resulting in a state of conflict between what is and what could never be.

This is still another example of the complete split-mindedness of the entire ego dream, where You do believe reality to be something just preposterous, yet it seems so real to You.  Thus are You hypnotized by the dreaming.

² Truth and illusions both are equal now, for both have happened. The impossible becomes the thing you need forgiveness for, salvation from. Salvation is the borderland between the truth and illusion. It reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions. Yet it is not truth because it undoes what was never done.

Make sure You understand this explanation of salvation, for it is perfect logic.  What it does not mean is that You are some sort of sinner needing saving from Your evils, for they’ve never happened anywhere but in Your deluded dreaming mind.

³ How could there be a meeting place at all where earth and Heaven can be reconciled within a mind where both of them exist?

This is quite impossible, as what You call ‘earth’ is simply Heaven misperceived; You cannot reconcile two views of the same thing.  One is Real, the other isn’t.

The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. They have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.

The definition of Reality is what God Knows.  If God doesn’t Know it, then it isn’t Real.  God Knows only Good, so it is easy to know what is Real and know what isn’t.  Where does that leave the basis of the dream: sin, sickness, death, but in the realm of unreality.  On this glorious fact stands all true healing.

⁴ What joins the separated mind and thoughts with Mind and Thought which are forever one?

The fact that they all exist within the mind of the Son of God, Who lays sleeping.  And Truth, right there, can correct all errors.

What plan could hold the truth inviolate, yet recognize the need illusions bring and offer means by which they are undone without attack and with no touch of pain? What but a Thought of God could be this plan by which the never done is overlooked and sins forgotten which were never real?

This brilliant and loving plan does dismiss summarily every single error.

⁵ The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. Yet it operates in time because of your belief that time is real. Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see-on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation, and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true-God still is Love, and this is not His Will.

Therefore, it can have no Reality and thus is available to healing.

⁶ This is the Thought which brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. This is the Thought which saves and which forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows. This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own.

This is how God Loves.  And hence, ditto the Holy Spirit.  This is the Love I’ve showed to You, for 2000 years and more.

⁷ Salvation is your function with the One to Whom the plan was given. Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. He has one answer to appearances regardless of their form, their size, their depth, or any attribute they seem to have:

⁸ Salvation is my only function here.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.

Engrave these words upon Your heart.  Cherish them and use them.

⁹ You who will yet work miracles, be sure you practice well the idea for today.

Let Love fill Your heart with grace by Your great desire to help Your Brothers.  For what kind of purpose is that to have that’s nothing but self pleasing?  Remember that You are here for giving.

Try to perceive the strength in what you say, for these are words in which your freedom lies.

From where comes the strength but from the tender Love You are extending to Your Brothers.  The gentler Your Love, the stronger It is.

Your Father loves you.

There’s no doubt of that.

All the world of pain is not His Will. – For God has only happiness for You. If You are willing to understand this, all fear will vanish; pain will go with it. – Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you.  – It was but a foolish musing, absent all reality. – Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind which thought the thoughts that never were His Will.

When You are doing this, You are allowing the Holy Spirit – Your Right Mind, what You really are: i.e. Mind – to Be You.

¹⁰ This part belongs to God, as does the rest. It does not think its solitary thoughts and make them real by hiding them from Him. – For there is no darkness really.  There is nowhere Light is not. You have just simply shut off Your Vision. – Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacle to what He wills for you.

You are the one in charge of what You will to see; for it will be one or the other: Light or darkness.

Open your secrets to His kindly Light, and see how bright this Light still shines in you.

And You will see and feel within Your mind and in Your heart how very much He Loves You.

¹¹ Practice His Thought today, and let His Light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots and shine through them to join them to the rest.

I hold the door wide open for You to the Holy Spirit.  Will You but let Him think as You today.  Remember that S/He is You.  You’re never thinking on Your own.   Either the ego thinks for You, or it’s the Holy Spirit.

It is God’s Will your mind be one with His. It is God’s Will that He has but one Son. It is God’s Will that His one Son is you.

¹² Think of these things in practicing today, and start your longer practice periods with this instruction in the way of truth:

¹³ Salvation is my only function here.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

¹⁴ Then turn to Him who shares your function with you, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside and know your Self as Love Which has no opposite in you.

¹⁵ Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completeness, unity, and peace.

What is My meaning here when I ask You to forgive?  To forgive something is to let it go, as if it had never been.  Truth is – it hasn’t.

You cannot lose the gifts your Father gave.

His Gifts – just like His Love – are forever.

You do not want to be another self.

For Your Real Self is truly exquisite.

You have no function that is not of God.

Your function is to be just Who You are in Reality.

Forgive yourself the one you think you made. Forgiveness and salvation are the same. Forgive what you have made, and you are saved.

Forgiveness is letting go of what never really happened.

¹⁶ You have a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind. If you are tempted to believe them true, remember that appearances cannot withstand the truth these mighty words contain:

¹⁷ Salvation is my only function here.

I’m only here to Wake up.  Other than that, the dream is absolutely pointless.

God still is Love, and this – dreaming Son of God – is not His Will.

¹⁸ Your only function tells you you are one. Remind yourself of this between the times you give five minutes to be shared with Him Who shares God’s plan with you. Remind yourself:

¹⁹ Salvation is my only function here.

I’m here to Waken, and the Love that gently forgives is Mine.

²⁰ Thus do you lay forgiveness on your mind and let all fear be gently laid aside that Love may find Its rightful place in you and show you that you are the Son of God.

[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