LESSON ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-ONE

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  131

No one can fail who asks to reach the truth.

For it has been said – and rightly so – that desire is prayer.  As You do trust My words, then understand that as You reach out for Truth, Truth’s loving arms are already reaching out for You!  What a glad embrace!

¹ Failure is all about you while you seek for goals that cannot be achieved. You look for permanence in the impermanent, for love where there is none, for safety in the midst of danger, immortality within the darkness of the dream of death. Who could succeed where contradiction is the setting of his searching and the place to which he comes to find stability?

Such has been Your entire experience within the dream.  All the good You’ve looked for there does only exist in Heaven.

² Goals which are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Who can use such senseless means and hope through them to gain in anything? Where can they lead? And what could they achieve that offers any hope of being real?

It may be hard to comprehend that the entire dream is meaningless and always has been.  All that his-story You had to read and memorize in school was but a big, useless waste of time, not just the learning but the so-called ‘living’ of it!

It was only the emphasis that was put on it – and all that kind of learning – that seemed to give it specious dignity it did not deserve.

³ Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made.

It also leads to ‘death’ for ‘death’ was invented to make the dream more interesting with endless new ‘identities’ in which to play.  And yet, they all turn sour.

⁴ Yet searching is inevitable here. For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. – You came looking for a ‘new’ experience, for You had decided Heaven could be improved by You.  Indeed, a tiny mad idea.  The problem was that You forgot to laugh, and that minds are joined.

And so, by His willfulness the Son’s experience of Heaven turned into to hell.

And thus the Son of God did fall into a willful dream. – But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search unless you give it power to do so. Otherwise, you still are free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought and one which comes to you from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new-an echo of a heritage forgot, yet holding everything you really want.

Now You are so much gladder to hear Me speak those words You have heretofore ignored:  Brother, choose again.  Sister, choose again.  This time choose with Me.

Heaven has not slipped from Its Perfection.  It stands, ever-expectant of Your re-turn, Your willingness to change back Your mind.

⁵ Be glad that search you must. Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven and must find the goal you really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God’s Son cannot seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself, and think that it is hell he seeks. When he is wrong, he finds correction; when he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.

What leads Him back but how He longs for God, although it seems to be for achieving ego goals instead.  What leads Him back but the pain of dreaming and such a faint, faint memory that somewhere, sometime, it was just so much better.

⁶ No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator nor affect His perfect, timeless, and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away, yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. – And in happiness, for they are the same.

⁷ Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion it is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be if it is where God wills His Son to be. How could the Will of God be in the past or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futureless. It is as far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distant star, or what you chose from what you really want.

Reality is always Here and Now.  Where else would it be but ever-present for You to make the choice for it again.  It is just as the poet said: Closer to You than breathing.₁ (Tennyson: The Higher Pantheism)

⁸ Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made and all its ways-its shifting patterns and uncertain goals, its painful pleasures, and its tragic joys. God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of Him. He did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one and earth the other’s sorry outcome that is Heaven’s opposite in every way.

Thus must this entire experience be just delusion.  And would You suffer from what isn’t real?  Why would You want to?  Perhaps to mitigate the penalty You think is due You?  God is but Love, and it sure is not the ‘tough love’ of the dream.

⁹ God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell when God Himself established him in Heaven? Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? – You cannot lose Your essential part as Heaven, for Heaven would not be Heaven without You.  Let this sink in:  You are essential to Heaven. – Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon His single purpose. – Let Us just not move on by this word ‘alien’ for I used it for a reason. The word is strong and gives a sense of something quite antithetical to God.  And so the ego is. And You would not be that to the Love that rules the Universe. – He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now beyond the reach of time.

God’s omnipotence is omnipresent for He stands everywhere except in ‘time’ because it is not real.  And yet His Truth does reach right into the dream to heal it.

¹⁰ Today we will not choose a paradox in place of truth. How could the Son of God make time to take away the Will of God? 

No-one can ever put a limit on the unlimited.

He – dreaming Son of God – thus denies himself and contradicts what has no opposite. He thinks he made a hell opposing Heaven and believes that he abides in what does not exist, while Heaven is the place he cannot find.

Believe in hell and You are stuck with it.

Leave foolish thoughts like these behind today, and turn your mind to true ideas instead.

Where do You find these True Ideas but within the Holy Spirit, Your own Right Mind.

¹¹ No one can fail who asks to reach the truth, and it is truth we ask to reach today.

For how can We be happy, but to turn Our Minds to the Holy Spirit, which is Our Rght mind.  Yours and Mine and Every One’s.

We will devote ten minutes to this goal three times today, and we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we held dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts which have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

¹² This we acknowledge as we start upon our practice periods. Begin with this:

¹³ I ask to see a different world and think
A different kind of thought from those I made.
The world I seek I did not make alone,
The thoughts I want to think are not my own.

And, again, Joining with Holy Spirit is the only key to unluck Your Self, hidden so long ago by the separation.

For only Unity is Real, … and and this blessèd Reality stand

¹⁴ For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world and which you think are true. Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. There is a door beneath them in your mind which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

¹⁵ Seek for that door and find it. But before you try to open it, remind yourself no one can fail who asks to reach the truth, and it is this request you make today. Nothing but this has any meaning now; no other goal is valued now nor sought; nothing before this door you really want, and only what lies past it do you seek.

¹⁶ Put out your hand and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps, will make you pause before you realize the world you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams.

¹⁷ You cannot fail today. There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you that you might approach this door some day and through His aid slip effortlessly past it to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps His ancient promise to His holy Son, as does His Son remember his to Him.

What is the ancient promise but of everlasting Oneness.  The negation of the separation.

This is a day of gladness, for we come to the appointed time and place where you will find the goal of all your searching here and all the seeking of the world, which ends together as you pass beyond the door.

Remember My ancient promise found in the Bible book of Revelation: Behold here have I sent before Ye an open door. … No man can shut it.  Your freedom need not stand waiting till another 2000 years have past.

Won’t You walk through the door of willingness and with great joy,, come, meet up with Your long lost belovèd Self: the Holy Spirit, including all Your Brothers..

¹⁸ Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. Salvation’s time has come. Today is set by Heaven Itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

¹⁹ Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who asks to reach the truth.

           That is Love’s Promise.

[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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