LESSON TWENTY-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.

What I see is a form of vengeance.

To see what isn’t there is both an attack on God and on His Idea as well.

¹ Today’s idea accurately describes the way anyone who holds attack thoughts in his mind must see the world. Having projected his anger onto the world, he sees vengeance about to strike at him. His own attack is thus perceived as self defense. This becomes an increasingly vicious circle until he is willing to change how he sees. Otherwise, thoughts of attack and counter-attack will preoccupy him and people his entire world. What peace of mind is possible to him then?

Would You not term this advanced insanity?  No mild neurosis this, but a form of extremely advanced mental retardation that applies to each One who Dreams, for surely the mind that thinks this way has become quite backward, having turned its back on both God and Love.

There’s nothing benign about Your dreaming.

² It is from this savage fantasy that you want to escape. Is it not joyous news to hear that it is not real? Is it not a happy discovery to find that you can escape? You made what you would destroy-everything that you hate and would attack and kill. All that you fear does not exist.

Joyous news indeed, except for hard-core Dreamers, and yet so hard to fathom when deep within the dream.  And Your help is right at hand, awaiting Your request.  Reach out and feel the Love embrace and lift You up.

You’ve “made Your bed in hell” and We are here (God and I, Your Elder Brother, and the Holy Spirit) to help You unmake it!

³ Look at the world about you at least five times today, for at least a minute each time. As your eyes move slowly from one object to another, from one body to another, say to yourself:

⁴ I see only the perishable.
I see nothing that will last.
What I see is not real.
What I see is a form of vengeance.

I have done violence with My mind to Every One of God’s Ideas, by My skewed view.

⁵ At the end of each practice period, ask yourself:

⁶ Is this the world I really want to see?

⁷ The answer is surely obvious

The good news is that You can always make a different choice, choose with the strength of Christ but to Awaken.  Sister, choose again.  Brother, choose again.

You’ve long forgotten – put it out of mind – just how much fun it is to be happy!

To Awaken is to regain Your Joy.

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