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LESSON 212
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
192) "I have a function God would have me fill."
"I seek a function that would set me free
From all the vain illusions of the World.
Only the function God has given me
Can offer freedom. Only this I seek.
And only this will I accept as mine."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 213
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
193) "All things are lessons God would have me learn."
"A lesson is a miracle which God
offers to me, in Place of thoughts I made
That hurt me. What I learn of Him becomes
The way I am set free. And so I choose
To learn HIs lessons and forget my own."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 214
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
194) " I Place the future in the Hands of God."
"The past is gone; the future is not yet.
Now am I free from both. For what God gives.
Can only be for good. And I accept.
But what He gives as what belongs to me."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 215
"I am not my body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
195) "Love is the way I walk in Gratitude."
"The Holy Spirit is my only Guide.
He walks with me in love. And I give thanks
To Him for showing me the way to go."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 216
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
196) "I can be but myself I crucify."
"All that I do I do unto myself.
If I attack, I suffer.But if I
Forgive, salvation will be given mw."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 217
197 "It can be but my Gratitude I earn."
"Who should give thanks for my salvation but
Myself? And how but through salvation can
I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?"
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 218
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
198 "Only my condemnation injures me."
"My condemnation keeps my vision dark,
And through my sightless Eyes I cannot see
The vision of my glory. Yet today
I can behold this glory and be glad."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 219
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
199) "I am not a body, I am free."
"I am God´s Son. Be still, my mind, and Think
A moment upon this. And then return
To eart´h, without confusion as to what
My Father loves forever as His Son."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 220
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
200) "There is no Peace execpt the Peace of God."
"Let me not wander from the way of Peace,
For I am lost on other roads than this.
But let me follow Him Who leads me home,
And peace is certain as the Love of God."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
PART II
Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone.
The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. Now we begin
to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was Always geared. Now we attempt to let the experience
be merely a beginning. For we wait in quiet expectations for our God and Father. He has promised He will take the final stelp Himself. And we
are sure His promises are kept. He have come far along the road, andd now we wait for Him. We will continue spending time with Him each
morning and at night, as long as makes us happy. We will not consider time a matter of duration now. We use as much as we will need for the
result that we desire. Nor will we forget our hourly remembrance in between, Calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to
forget our goal. We will continue with a central thought for all the days to come, and we will use that thought to introduce our times of rest, and
calm our minds at need. Yet we will not content ourselves with simple practicing in the remaining holy instants which conclude the year that we
have given God. We say some simple Words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself, as He ahs promised. We have called on Him,
and He has promised that His Son will not remain unanswered when he calls His Name. Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds
and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice. He would not fail to take when we invited Him. He has not
let left His Son in alll his madness, nor betrayed His trust in Him. Has not His faithfulness earned Him the invitation that He seeks to make us happy?
We will offer it, and it will be accepted. So our times with Him will now be spent. We say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we
wait for Him to come to us. Now is the time of prophesy fulfilled. Now are all ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains for time to
separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come you when you have recognized
it is your will He do so. And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will. I am so Close to you we cannot fail.
Father, we give these holy times to You, in Gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the World of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us
by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey´s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ´s
vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own. And now we wait in silence, unafraid and
certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide YOu sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we
know that YOu will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. We will with You in asking this. The Father
and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon
Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. And so we start upon the final part of this one holy year, which we have spent together in the search
for truth and God, Who is its one Creator. We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has
held us up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began. We had a wish that God would fail to
have the Son whom He created for Himself. We wanted God to change Himself, and be what we would make of Him. And we believed that our insane desires
were the truth. Now we are glad that this is all undone, and we no longer think illusions true. The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons of our
minds. A moment more, and it will rise again. A moment more, and we who are God´s Son´s are safely home, where He would have us be. Now is the need for
practice almost done. For in this final section, we will come to understand that we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we
need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. We will accept the way
God´s plan will end, as we received the way it started. Now it is complete. This year has brought us to eternity. Our further use for Words we still retain. From time
to time, instructions on a theme of special relevance wil intersperse our daily lessons and the periods of wordless, deep experience which should come afterwards.
These special thoughts should be reviewed each day, each one of them to be continued till the next is given you. They should be slowly read and thought about a
little while, preceding one of the holy and blessed instants in the day. We give the first of these instructions now:
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness reconginzes what you thought your brother did to you has not occured. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees these was no sin.
And in theat view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God´s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.
What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, althought it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released.
The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further
kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgivning thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortions is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for
anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its Point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely
looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must
learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of
your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom
He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
Love