V. The Undivided Will of the Sonship, P 2
2 The undivided will of the Sonship is the perfect creator, being wholly in the likeness of God, Whose Will it is. You cannot be exempt from it if you are to understand what it is and what you are. By the belief that your will is separate from mine, you are exempting yourself from the Will of God which is yourself. Yet to heal is still to make whole. Therefore, to heal is to unite with those who are like you, because perceiving this likeness is to recognize the Father. If your perfection is in Him and only in Him, how can you know it without recognizing Him? The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself. There is no separation of God and His creation. You will realize this when you understand that there is no separation between your will and mine. Let the Love of God shine upon you by your acceptance of me. My reality is yours and His. By joining your mind with mine you are signifying your awareness that the Will of God is One.
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Jesus is asking me to understand how important it is that I recognize that there is no separation between his will and mine. I think his wording here is very important. He did not ask me to accept his will or to change my will. He simply pointed out that our will is the same and that it is necessary that I accept this.
The reason I must accept something that is already fact is that I have made up a will to take the place of my true will. This is my ego will, my separate will. It is not truly my will, but it is the will I am pretending is true. To have an experience of separation I had to will it and this is the will I am using now as if it were the truth.
Jesus is actually reminding me that I have a true will and that I want this will, and he is encouraging me to accept it now. He explains that I need to accept my true will because it is only through doing so that I can return to creation and remember God. Here is how my mind interprets this paragraph.
Jesus: Honey, you are dreaming of being separate and being a body that is not joined with anything. You are dreaming of having emotions and of being guilty and afraid and in danger. You have enjoyed your dream and sometimes scared yourself with your dream, but Life is waiting for you. There is so much more to experience, so much more to be. Wake up now and join with me. This is what you yearn for now. You are tired of your stories and you are tired of pretending to be separate. But more than anything you want to recognize God as you have before, to be one in Him again.
Me: I don’t know how to know God and I can’t imagine how to be one in Him. I know you have said that I already am and always have been but I can’t remember that, and I don’t know how you think I can go from this experience to God.
Jesus: You feel very far from God right now. I understand that. You cannot bring yourself to access the memory of your oneness with Him. The idea of joining your will with God’s Will vacillates between disbelief and fear. But that’s ok. You know me now and you know my love for you and you feel safe with me, and so you can accept that our will is joined. In fact, you really want to do that and have been opening yourself to that for awhile now. It is through this step, this acceptance of our joint will, that you will be able to take the next step.
Me: Ok, so you are saying that I am not really living a life right now, but am dreaming of something different in which I am alone and not connected to everything. And you say that this dream isn’t anything like my real life, and that I can have my real life back just by wanting it. You already did it and you know the way Home so all I have to do to return Home is to accept that you and I share the will to return to God. I just have to accept that your will and my will are the same. This is a step I can take and want to take.