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.

The very thought of it is so inviting, although My so-called conscious mind can’t yet remember it.  There is feeling that We once knew something so much better than this scene.  It was like Heaven and We all loved each Other.

We long to return, yet have lost Our way.  Holy Spirit, please help Us find the way home to Our Father. .

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. And, oh! There is something so much better! 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?

Yet what is this present sense of world but an ego-distorted view of Heaven.

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.  It is the diametric opposite of Reality, where all real Things are for Eternity.

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? 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?  Does not this world sound to You like Heaven?

You need not go anywhere to find it, for it is right at hand with a change of mind.

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. For We are all joyously connected. There is no such thing as separation. Communication, unambiguous and plain as day, remains unlimited for all eternity.  Life and Love always the message throughout all Infinity. 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.  Our Knowing and communicating is Universal One.

What do I mean by this?  That there is only Us as One, including Every One.  The One includes the Many for One is Infinite.  There is no separation.  There is One made up of infinite One.  Each One, Love’s Presence.  This may be hard to grasp, and do Your best.  Love will help You to understand It.

⁵ How far away from this are you who stay bound to this world. This world that knows only separation.  And yet how near are you when you exchange it for the world you want.  For all Our experience is mental. Now is the last step certain; now you stand an instant’s space away from timelessness.  Choice is always Yours. Here can you but look forward, never back to see again the world you do not want.  For the choice of it was but a mistake. 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.  What are these things that bind You to unhappiness, but lacks of Love for Your Brothers, for All Your Others.

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.  To make the choice for the Real is but choosing God as Love instead of the ego and its selfishness.

⁷ Practice your willingness 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 choose to see that world instead of this,
For here is nothing that I really want.  All things here ultimate in sin, pain, sickness, death.  I choose instead for Love and Life.

⁹ Then close your eyes upon the world you see, 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.  You choose what You see.  Will it be a world of Spirit or materiality?  Choice is always Yours.

¹⁰ Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. Here is light your eyes cannot behold. And yet your mind can see it plainly and can understand.  You may not at first understand this, yet as the Son of God, You’re fully able.  Your desire will bring to You the needed understanding. 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.  Freely is vision given, so freely may You understand.

¹¹ Now do we understand there is no loss, for we have seen its opposite at last, – Reality always available – 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, 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. 

When It is what I truly want, I can see Reality.

[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