LESSON ONE HUNDRED-TWENTY 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  129

Beyond this world there is a world I want.

I know this must be Truth for God is Good.  Therefore, Reality must be Good too.  If I’m not seeing it, then I need to correct My vision.

¹ This is the thought which follows from the one we practiced yesterday. You cannot stop with the idea the world is worthless, for unless you see that there is something else to hope for, you will only be depressed. Our emphasis is not on giving up the world but on exchanging it for what is far more satisfying, filled with joy, and capable of offering you peace. Think you this world can offer that to you?

What kind of peace can there be in a world where everything does end in dying?  Could this be the world created by the Eternal God of Love?  Does not death seem to You quite incongruent with God, Love?  These are disturbing questions for the ego.

Deep within You know You’re not an ego.  You’re the Son of God.

² It might be worth a little time to think once more about the value of this world. Perhaps you will concede there is no loss in letting go all thought of value here. The world you see is merciless indeed, unstable, cruel, unconcerned with you, quick to avenge, and pitiless with hate. It gives but to rescind and takes away all things that you have cherished for a while. No lasting love is found, for none is here. This is the world of time, where all things end.

This cannot then be the Creation of Our Eternal God that We know as Love.  This bears repeating until it is most clearly understood.  The You of God is as Eternal as is Your Creator.  Perfect God only makes a Perfect Son.

³ Is it a loss to find a world instead where losing is impossible, where love endures forever, hate cannot exist, and vengeance has no meaning? – Sounds like Paradise! And, indeed, it is. – Is it loss to find all things you really want and know they have no ending, and they will remain exactly as you want them throughout time?

It does seem hard for the human mindset to grasp the possibility of such happiness, so attuned to misery as it is.

⁴ Yet even they will be exchanged at last for what we cannot speak of, for you go from there to where words fail entirely, into a silence where the language is unspoken and yet surely understood. – This is a Knowing of Each Other and All Things shared by each and every Idea of God’s Universe. Communication, unambiguous and plain as day, remains unlimited for all eternity. And God Himself speaks to His Son as His Son speaks to Him. Their language has no words, for what they say cannot be symbolized. Their knowledge is direct and wholly shared and wholly one.

This is not something that can be really understood from the point of view of separation, for it does spring from Oneness..

⁵ How far away from this are you who stay bound to this world. And yet how near are you when you exchange it for the world you want.

What seems now impossible to You is Yours but for the willingness to have It.

Now is the last step certain; – It is made secure by Your desire. – now you stand an instant’s space away from timelessness. Here can you but look forward, never back to see again the world you do not want. Here is the world that comes to take its place as you unbind your mind from little things the world sets forth to keep you prisoner there. Value them not, and they will disappear. Esteem them, and they will seem real to you.

You do not need to get that new car, promotion, or Him to propose to You, or Her to give in to You, or have a baby, go to Paris, or write that novel.  Does it matter whether You kiss and make up when You are both planning on dying?  Does it matter how this dream goes when You choose another one?  If You were going to learn from Your mistakes, You would have done so already, millennia ago!

⁶ Such is the choice. What loss can be for you in choosing not to value nothingness? This world holds nothing that you really want, but what you choose instead you want indeed! Let it be given you today. It waits but for your choosing it to take the place of all the things you seek but do not want.

It seems that I am asking You to give up all things dear to You, yet this is but a dream, quite a phantasmagoria.  And all Things really dear are waiting for You to Awaken.

⁷ Practice your willingness – just the little willingness I ask You – to make this change ten minutes in the morning and at night and once more in between. Begin with this:

⁸ Beyond this world there is a world I want.

I don’t remember It and yet I trust Your word dear Brother.
I choose to see that world instead of this,
For here is nothing that I really want.

Again I take this leap of faith because of My trust in You, dear Brother Jesus.

⁹ Then close your eyes upon the world you see, – and softly pray for Vision from Our loving Father-Mother, – and in the silent darkness watch the lights that are not of this world light one by one until where one begins, another ends, losing all meaning as they blend in one.

What does this mean?  Do You not yet realize You are the Light, each One of You.  And here the Light speaks to Awakening, for this is how it will come: at first One by One, and then much faster!

¹⁰ Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. – This is all it takes: willingness to step out of the darkness. – Here is light your eyes cannot behold. And yet your mind can see it plainly and can understand. – Vision is of Mind; it is all mental. – A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks. This day we realize that what you feared to lose was only loss.

You lost Reality so long ago, thus the world that You’ve treasured is that loss.

¹¹ Now do we understand there is no loss, for we have seen its opposite – True Reality – at last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. Remember your decision hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by whatever thoughts you have, – about this or that or of Him or Her, or where You’ll go on Your next vacation, turning Self from that – and dwelling briefly only upon this:

¹² The world I see has nothing that I want.
Beyond this world there is a world I want.

It is important to understand the world that You see now, and the One that You left so long ago, and yet so close, they are not ‘things’ at all.  The one that You see now is but a misperception of the Reality of the Other.  So the leaving – as well as Your return – was and will be a “journey without distance” taken wholly in Your mind.

For both exist mentally, as consciousness, and not as matter, and this is the Truth of You as well.

[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

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