ACIM Chapter 9. VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother. P 4, 5

ACIM Chapter 9. VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother. P 4, 5

VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother, P4

4 God is more than you only because He created you, but not even this would He keep from you. Therefore you can create as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this. Neither God’s light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see. Because the Sonship must create as one, you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation. Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because each part is whole. Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere. You can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge is shared with God. When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours. But meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brother’s, and will accept it as you accept his.

Jesus says that I am like God in every way but one; God created me, and I didn’t create Him. Even that ability He gives me. I, too, am a creator with as much power as God. Nothing has changed because I have closed my eyes to reality. “Neither God’s light nor yours is dimmed because you do not see.” I continue to create.

I do not create alone, though.

The Sonship as a whole creates. Just as God sees us as a whole, we must learn to see ourselves as part of a whole, along with our brothers. “Wholeness is indivisible, but you cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere.” I practice this all the time now. I do this at random. When I am checking out at the store, I will look at the cashier with my heart open to see we are indivisible.

When I notice a casual judgment of someone, I do the same. I’m asking Jesus to help me with this. It is absolutely essential that I remember and accept my oneness with my brothers if I am to remember that my mind is part of God’s. I cannot be part of God alone because God does not know “alone.” He knows us as One, indivisible, whole.

“When you awake in Him you will know your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours.” All through the Course, Jesus talks to us about our true nature. As one, we are magnificent, beautiful, unlimited, free, powerful, holy, brilliant, complete, whole. As one, we are creators. We are the Son of God. Our true nature is one of wholeness, but I will not feel this if I still choose specialness over wholeness. I am making new choices and will continue to do so until I recognize there is only one choice, and I make that. When I know my brothers as the Sons of God, equal to me in every way, I will then, and only then, know myself as I am.

This is my prayer.

Dear God, the next time I think the cashier is too slow, or feel resentment toward the person who took the parking spot they could see I was waiting for; when I look with envy at someone who has what I don’t, or when I think I would be happy if only someone would change; when I read the paper and think how sad this happened, how tragic that, how guilty the perpetrator; dear, dear, God, please remind me of the sacrifice I make in order to see myself separate from these splintered parts of my Self. Holy Spirit, heal my mind, restore me to our Self.

VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother, P 5

5 You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken. Very simply the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others. As you see them waken you will learn what waking means, and because you have chosen to wake them, their gratitude and their appreciation of what you have given them will teach you its value. They will become the witnesses to your reality, as you were created witnesses to God’s. Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its Oneness it will be known by its creations, who witness to its reality as the Son does to the Father.

Because I was created as the Son of God, I am witness to the reality of the Father. My creations (of which I am unaware in this dimension, and yet which, nonetheless, still exist) witness to my reality. When I say “I,” I mean “I” as the One Son of God. The “I” that I am still somewhat identified with at this time is a separate part of the Sonship. But, regardless of my misplaced identification, it is not what I am. When the Sonship comes together and is One again, it will be known by its creations, as God is known by His Son.

This is outside my limited knowledge at this time.

However, it is not outside my Mind, so it is not lost, and I am still as I was created. Although I am still dreaming, I will awaken, and when I do, I will remember this. I will awaken through the Holy Spirit as He teaches me to awaken others. I am always awakening, and my happiness depends on knowing everyone as my brothers, a part of the Wholeness that we are. This is something I must absolutely, and without exception, accept as true and necessary. I cannot know my Self as less than whole, and I cannot remember my wholeness if I continue to disavow my brothers since they are part of my wholeness.

When a grievance arises in my mind, I quickly and gladly release it to the Holy Spirit. I want to know my brother as myself, and I cannot do that if I make him separate from me by assigning him the guilt that we all fear. Instead, I will withdraw my projections and release them to the Holy Spirit, so they are healed for us all. As I release my brother from his guilt by showing him he has not hurt me, he learns of his innocence, and this helps him awaken. I learn that I can awaken through witnessing his awakening.

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