IA´s Journal

WHAT IS SIN?

Sin is insanity. It is the means by which the mind is driven mad,
and seeks to let illusions take the place of truth. And being mad, it
sees illusions where the truth should be, and where it really is. Sin
gave the body eyes, for what it there the sinless would behold? What
need have they of sights or sounds or touch? What would they hear
or reach to grasp? What would they sense at all? To sense is not to
know. And truth can be but filled with knowledge, and with nothing
else.
The body is the instrument the mind made in its efforts to deceive
itself. Its purpose is to strive. Yet can the goal of striving change. And
now the body serves a different aid for striving. What it seeks for
now is chosen by the aid the mind taken as replacement for the
goal of self-deception. Truth can be its aid as well as lies. The senses
then will seek instead for witnesses to what is true.
Sin is the home of all illusions, which but stand for things
imagined, issuing from thoughts that are untrue. They are the
"proopf" that what has no reality is real. Sin "proves" God´s Son is
evil; timelessness must have an end;eternal life must die. And God
Himself, His Will forever overcome by death, love slain by hate, and
peace to be no more.
A madman´s dreams are frightening, and sin appears indeed to
terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of
God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with
but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on
him, and loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses
cannot change at all.
How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall
we not put away these sharp-edged children´s toys? How soon will
you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin.
Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back?
How long o holy Son of God, how long?


LESSON 251

"I am in need of nothing but the truth."

I sought for many things, and found despair. Now do I seek but
one, for in the one is all I need, and only what I need. All that I
sought before I needed not, and did not even want. My only need I
did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth. In that all
needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and
dreams are gone. Now have I everything that I could need. Now
have I Everything that I could want. And now at last I find myself at
peace.

"And for that peace, our Father, we give thanks. What we denied
ourselves You have restored, and only that is what we really want."

Love

LESSON 252

"The Son of God is my Identity."

My Self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now
conceive. Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than
is any light that I have ever looked upon. Its love is limitless, with an
intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.
Its strength comes not from bruning impulses which move the world,
but from the boundless Love of God Himself. How far beyond this
world my Self must be, and yet how near the me and close to God!

"Father, You know my true Identity. Reveal It now to me who am
Your Son, that I may waken to the truth in You, and know that
Heaven is restored to me."

Love

LESSON 253

"My Self is ruler of the universe."

It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by
myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens
is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen.
This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations,
children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them
and Him Who has created me.

"You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself
and one with You, My Self, Which rules the universe, is but Your
Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to
Yours, that it may be extended to Itself."

Love

LESSON 254

"Let every voice but God´s be still in me."

"Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. In deepest silence I
would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. I
have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. And
truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today."

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. When
such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then
we let them go. We do not want what they would bring with them.
And so we do not choose to keep them. They are silent now. And in
the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of
our will, as we have choosen to remember Him.

Love

we let

LESSON 255

"This day I choose to spend in perfect peace."

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today.
And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself. Let me this
day have faith in Him Who says I am God´s Son. And let the peace I
choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says.
God´s Son can have no cares, and must retain forever in the peace of
Heaven. In His name, I give today to finding what my Father wills
for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father´s Sons,
along with me.

"And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You. Your Son
has not forgotten you. The peace You gave him still is in his mind,
and it is there I choose to spend today."

Love

LESSON 256

"God is the only goal I have today."

The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other
way. If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would
there have been to find the way to where you are? Who would still be
uncertain? Who could be unsure of who he is? And who would yet
remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him
whom God created sinless? Here we can but dream. But we can
dream we have forgiven him whom all sin remains impossible,
and it is this we choose to dream today.God is our goal;
forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

"And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed
way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way
Your sacred Word has pointed out to us."

Love

LESSON 257

"Let me remember what my purpose is."

If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and
thus conflicted in my actions. No one can serve contradicting goals
and serve them well. Nor can he function without deep distress and
great depression. Let us therefore be determined to remember what
we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and acctions
meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

"Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation. Let
us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours. And thus
our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You
will for us."

Love

LESSON 258

"Let me remember that my goal is God."

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little
senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is
hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which
offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God´s
grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the
world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We
have no aim but to remember Him.

"Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have
no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What
could we seek but our Identity?

Love

LESSON 259

"Let me remember that there is no sin."

Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem
unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the
strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin
engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of
guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin
could be the source of fear obscuring God´s creation; giving love
the attributes of fear and of attack?

"Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of
love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no
opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything
that is remains with You, and You with it."

Love

LESSON 260

"Let me remember God created me."

"Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought
I did, Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining
part of What created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today.
Let me remember You created me. Let me rememeber my Identity.
And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ´s vision, through
which I would look upon my brothers and myself today."

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true
Identity at last. Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know
no sin. And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to
Him.

Love