ACIM Wholeness and Spirit P 4. Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. 5. Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed.
V. Wholeness and Spirit, 2, 3
V. Wholeness and Spirit. P 4
4 Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. “God is not mocked” is not a warning but a reassurance. God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness. The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness. Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.
First, let me say what a delight it was to read that “God is not mocked” is not a warning but a reassurance. It makes me laugh when I read that. I used to think of it as a warning, and it was one of those phrases from the Bible that encouraged my fear of God. I mean, what was I supposed to do with that? How was I mocking Him, and how was I to stop? What would He do to me if I accidentally mocked Him? Life used to be a lot scarier before I found the Course.
It also helped me to understand that my perception determines how I understand things. “God is not mocked” goes from being a warning to being a reassurance without any change to the words. Now I perceive it like this. “Don’t worry, honey, God is not mocked. Everything is fine, and you are still as He created you no matter what you dream otherwise.”
Thank You, God, for Another Way to See
The Holy Spirit helped me to see that I am not yet completely free of fear when I think of God, but I am moving in that direction. I am much closer to knowing that He is Love and nothing else than ever before. I have touched that love, just a gentle brush with reality, but it made a difference.
“Thank You, God, that You are not mocked.” There is nothing I can do to change the nature of God or of His creation. I am holy because God created me like Himself. And I will never be anything but holy, and so, ultimately, I will return to Him. I will acknowledge my holiness and laugh at the absurdity that I could have been a body in a world of separation, that I could have suffered and died.
Eternity Is in this Moment
I was watching a clip by Jan Frazier, author of A Sudden Awakening. She said a couple of things that were helpful to me. First, she reminded me that there is only now. I hear this from other people too, and I think I have failed to see just how important that is. Just this moment, this is all there is. At each moment, I can say the same thing. I am just beginning to understand that eternity is in this moment. She said: All that’s real is here right now.
The other thing that was helpful: No thought can cause you pain unless you’re having it right now. I had to laugh when I read that. It is so true and so obvious, and yet, I never really noticed it before. Right now is the only thing that is here, and if I am experiencing pain, it is because of a thought I am having right now. What if I were wrong about that thought? What if it were only a matter of perception?
And if a thought is causing me pain, then I must be mistaken in my perception because God did not create pain, and God will not be mocked. Do you see where this is leading me? At the moment when I acknowledge my error and truly accept that pain is not real, at that moment, I am resting in the Heart of God, perfectly safe and at peace. That moment is all there is until I have a thought that is not in accord with Truth, and then I imagine myself outside God. That can’t happen, but I can think it happened, and it becomes my experience.
A Strange Game I Play
My heart is racing as I think of this. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever awaken. Actually, I have often awakened. I have had moments, some of them strung together to make it seem like a longer time when I have been awakened. I knew the truth at that moment, and that moment was all there was until I made another choice. But for that moment, I proved that I can be in God and am in God.
What a strange game I play as I peek into Heaven and then return to separation. Or maybe I peek from Heaven and into separation? It only seems that I live in separation because I seem to stay in that state for such a longer time, but then, time is an illusion, too. What if I already am a fully awakened and infinite being, playing at being human from time to time, and ultimately, I will return my full attention to Love?
A Significant Shift
In 2019, I experienced a significant shift that changed nothing outwardly but inwardly; everything changed. I know something now that I only hoped was true in the past. Even though I peek at separation and sometimes spend more than a little time there, I exist in this knowing. So, under any pain or confusion that I experience, there is a certainty that everything is fundamentally Ok. I might be stuck in an old memory or behavior, but I know I am stuck, and I know I will let it go.
I have played at being simply human and played at separation. Now I play at miracles. The difference is that the former takes me more deeply into the illusion, while miracles remind me of my Reality and call to me to return to Wholeness. What miracles would you have me perform today, Spirit?
5 V. Wholeness and Spirit, P 5.
5 Whatever is true is eternal, and cannot change or be changed. Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters. If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which spirit creates along the line of its own creation. If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains its creative potential but places itself under tyrannous rather than Authoritative control. As a result it imprisons, because such are the dictates of tyrants. To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority.
What I can’t change: I am an eternal Spirit, unalterably perfect.
What I can’t do: I can’t serve two masters.
This is what I can do: I can choose the master I would serve.1. Choose to follow God (Authority) and create along the lines of spirit.
2. Choose to follow the ego (the tyrant) and retain creative ability but imprison the mind so that it can only pretend or make, but not create.
I am this perfect, powerful, unlimited, and unalterable creative mind. I can create love and peace, and joy in as many ways as I can think to, and because I am boundless, there is no end to the ways I can imagine creation. Because I am free and have no boundaries, I can even play at making something outside of creation. And this is what I have done.
A Misuse of Power
I have used the incredible power of my mind to voluntarily imprison a part of it, setting up limits so that I could pretend to be other than I am. I call this part of the mind ego. From this little bit of mind, I have made a world of separation with all its effects, intended and unintended. I doubt I understood the tyrannous nature of a mind so bound, how lost I would be in it, how fearful and guilty.
Though perhaps I have for a while enjoyed the delicious tingle of fright and the powerful surges of adrenaline. And surely, I have enjoyed the highs and lows of emotions surging through the body, the ache of sexual desire, and its physical release. Can anything equal the tender regard of mother and baby, newly born? Most assuredly so, but I cannot remember what that is.
And that’s the rub. I am truly lost here in my storyland, and the guilt and fear seem all too real. For it is the nature of the experience that I be wholly and completely in its thrall. Otherwise, it is an idea, a concept but never fully realized. This ego is a tyrant for sure and has no desire to die quietly but wants to keep me engrossed with offers of more of its dubious adventures and promises of false freedom.
It’s Our Choice
The Holy Spirit speaks for God and gently leads us out of this unlikely kingdom we have made. As we listen to His loving Voice, we see a glimmer of the truth, a bit of light, and we start to remember that a thousand choices offered by ego are choices between nothing and nothing. Long before the mind remembers its longing, the Heart feels it, and we find a book or a teacher, and we begin to make the only choice we truly have, the one between masters.
In a bid to keep our loyalty, the ego, using the only tools at its disposal (fear and guilt), warns us that we slipped away from God in the dark of night, stealing from Him what was His, leaving Him diminished. The ego says that we dare not go back. It warns that such a betrayal could not be without consequence. It’s a scary lie, but still a lie.
Tyrant or Authority
When we had the curious thought that we should try making a world different from truth, our loving Creator placed within the mind a reminder, a fail-safe. This Voice was placed there to comfort us when we got in too deep and experienced hurt. He placed within our mind a Light to keep the darkness from hiding our truth too completely, a Guide to bring us home when we tire of our games.
We did not sneak off from God, we did not hurt God, and we are not guilty and have nothing to fear from Love. If we are hearing that Voice and feeling its call to return home, it is only because we are through with play. We are making a choice for God, for Reality. It is time we decided to place our minds under true Authority.
In making the choice for God, we are beginning to realize that the tyrant, the ego, has no real power over us. We are the maker of the tyrant and cannot be controlled by it except if we make the choice to pretend we are. “This is what I have done, Holy Spirit. Please undo what I have done.” It’s that simple, and the consequences of choosing a true Master are not dire as we are warned by ego, but are glorious!
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