LESSON ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-TWO

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  132

I loose the world from all I thought it was.

It has been enslaved by My so-called ‘thinking’; i.e. vivid imaginations, which I have overlaid upon Heaven.

Having turned Heaven into hell, for Ourselves, We can now re-turn it.

Be glad for dissatisfaction with the dream, for it is not about fixing the dream but healing You.

¹ What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs?

For there is no such thing as ‘the world’.  It is simply a vast collection of misperceptions due to Your choosing to believe them.  What there is is Reality, a.k.a. Heaven.

And what can save the world except your Self?

What is “Your Self” but the Holy Spirit.

Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth.

This is why the dream persists and seems so very real to You.  And yet, it isn’t.

A madman thinks the world he sees is real and does not doubt it. Nor can he be swayed by questioning his thoughts’ effects. It is but when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.

What raises the dream to question faster than a miracle?  Thus am I giving You an ongoing Course in Miracles.  Its Lessons are to Guide You gently Home.

In the dream salvation seems well nigh impossible.  That is the ego speaking.

² Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it.  – Can it really be that simple? Not only can it, but it really is. – Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think.

What does change Your mind but the shift to another Teacher, to a Voice that speaks not for fear but for Love.

³ You free the past from what you thought before. You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find. The present now remains the only time. Here in the present is the world set free. For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world.

This is the “renewing of Your mind” spoken of in the Bible.  Change consciousness and change experience.

⁴ You have enslaved the world with all your fears, with doubts and miseries, your pain and tears, and all your sorrows press upon it and keep it a prisoner to your beliefs.

Yet right where the “world” seems to be is only Heaven’s Kingdom.  You see It very little because of the dream indoctrination.

Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thought of death within your mind. The world is nothing in itself. – For it’s seen as ‘matter’, and everything is always mental. – Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real.

Thus do You make Yourself petty demi-gods, and pretend that You’re self-directed.

⁵ Perhaps you think you did not make the world but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly.

Can it all really be that simple?  You do wonder.  And yet, You know that it is.

⁶ Ideas leave not their source. – Then this whole world must be going on in My mind!  Oh My God!  Is there a way out?  Yes!  Not to worry My dreaming Sisters, My dreaming Brothers. – This central theme is often stated in the text and must be borne in mind if you would understand the L e s s o n  for today.  … – I see with delight that it has just dawned on Thee, for I can ‘hear’ You realizing that: there is- there can never be- nor ever was- any separation between My God and Me!  Yes, it is joyful!  No longer only words, it has become experiential. – It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see and that it changes as you change your mind. – It’s intelligence! – But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is.

And lifetime after lifetime You do experience that “pride goes before a fall” for surely You fell into a stupor.  And You’ve Awakened just as briefly as the dormouse in Alice in Wonderland.

⁷ There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again.

So it can be an endless journey or the one that has no distance and is immediate, right now.

⁸ But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world and can accept the L e s s o n  now. Their readiness will bring the L e s s o n  to them in some form which they can understand and recognize. Some see it suddenly on point of death and rise to teach it. – This is glorious if They continue to remember that They don’t need to ‘die’. – Others find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world. And some will find it in this course and in the exercises that we do today.  As You are doing.  I speak to All of You Who listen of the Joy that Your “little willingness” is bringing unto Me.

⁹ Today’s idea is true because the world does not exist. And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances. The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.

Make sure You do not slough off what I am saying of how to heal so-called ‘death’ in the midst of the dream.

¹⁰ A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm foundation for today’s idea. You are as God created you. – For Ideas leave not their Source. Source and Idea are only One. – There is no place where you can suffer and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time and place exist if you remain as God created you?

God knows not time, for God knows only You.  Precious, precious You.

¹¹ What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought.

Let this be quite clear that what You ‘see’ ‘out there’, cannot be separate, nor can it be apart from You, or have any truth.

¹² Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him nor make what does not share His timelessness and love.  – Just how did God create You?  Our of what? By Mind!  He thinks and, voila! – You are. – Are these inherent in the world you see? Does it create like Him? Unless it does, it is not real and cannot be at all. If you are real, the world you see is false, for God’s creation is unlike the world in every way. And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.

Change Your thinking, and everything You see will look so different!

¹³ Release the world! Your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from Him.

Sounds like My other favorite lines for You: The Rays do shine directly from the Sun.  And No-one can tell where the Sun has ‘stopped’ and the Rays ‘begun’.

There is no stoppage nor a beginning.  There is just always.

¹⁴ There is no world because it is a thought apart from God and made to separate the Father and the Son and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.

How is this done?  Quite simply by turning to God, Me, or the Holy Spirit, instead of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it and about all living things we see upon it. They can not be there-no more than we. For we are in the home our Father set for us along with them. And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions that we may be free.

If You will just join with Me or God or the Holy Spirit, healing commences.

¹⁶ Begin the 15 minute periods in which we practice twice today with this:

¹⁷  I who remain as God created me
Would loose the world from all I thought it was.
For I am real because the world is not,
And I would know my own reality.

¹⁸ Then merely rest, alert but with no strain, and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed along with you.

¹⁹ You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the world as well as to the ones you see near by as you send out these thoughts to bless the world. But you will sense your own release, although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone.

²⁰ Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind:

²¹ I loose the world from all I thought it was
And choose my own reality instead.

[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”

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