IA´s Journal

THE EGO - THE MIRACLE

Illusions will not last. Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world.
It is the ego´s world because of this. What is the ego? But a Dream of what you
really are. A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He
created not. It is a thing of madness, not reality at all. A name for namelessness
is all it is. A symbol of impossibility; a choice for options that do not exist. We name
it but to help us understand that it is nothing but an ancient thought that what is made
has immortality. But what could come of this except a dream which, like all dreams,
can only end in death?
What is the ego? Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something. In a world
of form the ego cannot be denied for it alone seems real. Yet could God´s Son as He
created him abide in form or in a world of form? Who asks you to define the ego and
explain how it arose can be but he who thinks it real, and seeks by definition to ensure
that its illusive nature is concealed behind the words that seem to make it so.
There is no definition for a lie that seves to make it true. Nor can there be a truth that lies
conceal effectively. The ego´s unreality is not denied by words nor is its meaning clear
because its nature seems to have form. Who can define the undefinable? And yet there
is an answer even here.
We cannot make a definition for what the ego is, but we can say what it is not. And this is
shown to us with perfect clarity. It is from this that we deduce all that the ego is. Look at its
opposite and you can see the only answer that is meaningful.
The ego´s opposite is every way, - in origin, effect and consequence - we call a miracle. And
here we find all that is not the ego in this world. Here is the ego´s opposite and here alone we
look on what the ego was, for here we see all that it seemed to do, and cause and its effects
must still be one.
Where there was darkness now we see the light. What is the ego? What the darkness was.
Where is the ego? Where the darkness was. What is it now and where can it be found? Nothing
and nowhere. Now the light has come: its opposite has gone without a trace. Where evil was
there now is holiness. What is the ego? What the evil was. Where is the ego? In an evil dream
that but seemed real while you were dreaming it. Where there was crusifixtion stands God´s Son.
What is the ego? Who has need to ask? Where is the ego? Who has the need to seek an illusion
now that dreams are gone? What is a miracle? A dream as well. But look at all the aspects of this
dream and you will never question any more. Look at the kindly world you see extend before you
as you walk in gentleness. Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty
of Heaven and the surety of peace. And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and
finally passed by.
This was the ego - all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying
and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. This
terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.
Is not a song like this what you would hear? Would it not answer all you thought to ask, and even make
the question meaningless?
Your question have no answer, being made to still God´s Voice, Which asks of everyone one question only:
"Are you ready yet to help Me save the world?" Ask this instead of what the ego is, and you will see a sudden
brightness cover up the world the ego made. No miracle is now withheld from anyone. The world is saved
from what you thought it was. And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.
The miracle forgives; the ego damns. Neither need be defined except by this. Yet could a definition be more
sure, or more in line with what salvation is? Problem and answer lie together here, and having met at last
the choice is clear. Who choose hell when it is recogized? And who would not go on a little while when it is
given him to understand the way is short and Heaven is his goal?

Love

FORGIVENESS - THE FACE OF CHRIST

Forgiveness is for God and toward God but not of Him. It is impossible to think of
anything He created that could need forgiveness. Forgiveness, then, is an illusion,
but because of its purpose, which is the Holy Spirit´s, it has one difference. Unlike
all other illusions it leads away from error and not towards it.
Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing
can bridge the gap between their perception and the truth. They cannot go directly
from perception to knowledge because they do not think it is their will to do so.
This makes God appear to be an enemy instead of what He really is. And it is just this
insane perception that makes them unwilling merely to rise up and to return to Him in peace.
And so they need an illusion of help because they are helpless; a Thought of peace because
they are in conflict. God knows what His Son needs before he asks. He is not at all concerned
with form, but having given the content it is His Will that it be understood. And that suffices.
The form adaps itself to need; the content is unchanging, as eternal as its Creator.
The face of Christ has to be seen before the memory of God can return. The reason is obvious.
Seeing the face of Christ involves perception. No one can look on knovledge. But the face of
Christ is the great symbol of forgiveness. It is salvation. It is the symbol of the real world. Whoever
looks on this no longer sees the world. He is as near to Heaven as is possible outside the gate.
Yet from this gate it is no more than just a step inside. It is the final step. And this we leave go God.
Forgiveness is a symbol, too, but as the symbol of His Will alone it cannot be divided. And so the
Unity that it reflects becomes His Will. It is the only thing still in the world in part, and yet the bridge
to Heaven.
God´s Will is all there is. We can but go from nothingness to everything; from hell to Heaven. Is this
a journey? No, not in truth, for truth goes nowhere. But illusions shift from place to place; from time
to time. The final step is also but a shift. As a perception it is part unreal. And yet this part will vanish.
What remains is peace eternal and the Will of God.
There are no wishes now for wishes change. Even the wishes-for can become unwelcome. That must
be so because the ego cannot be at peace. But Will is constant, as the gift of God. And what He gives
is always like Himself. This is the purpose of the face of Christ. It is the gift of God to save His Son.
But look on this and you have been forgiven.
How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself
reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness. Now you are holy and percieve
it so. And now the mind returns to its Creator; the joining of the Father and the Son, the Unity of
unities that stands behind all joining but beyond them all. God is not seen but only understood. His
Son is not attacked but recognized.

Love

TRUE PERCEPTION - KNOWLEDGE

The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He creates must
be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. Some
things will last in time a little while longer than others. But the time will come when all things
visible will have an end.
The body´s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the
illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. And so they do. For everything
they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin an guilt. While everything that
God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.
Knowledge is not the rememdy for false perception since, being another level, they can never meet.
The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for
the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness,
salvation. Atonement, true perception, all are one. They are the one beginning, with the end to lead
to Oneness far beyond themselves. True perception is the means by which the world is saved from
sin, for sin does not exist.
And it is this that true perseption sees.
The world stands like a block before Christ´s face. But true perception looks on it as nothing more
than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it can last no longer than an instant. It is seen at last
for only what it is. And now it cannot fail to disappear, for now there is an empty place made clean
and ready. Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ appears, and in that instant is the
world forget, with time forever ended as the world spins into nothingness from where it came.
A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies. But forgiveness looks past bodies. This
is its holiness; this is how it heals. The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were
a body is sin possible. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt away. And
once all guilt is gone what more remains to keep a separated world in place? For place has gone
as well, along with time. Only the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not
remain where separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not.
And what you then will overlook will not be understandable to you, just as its precense once had
been your certainty. This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen
within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear. For there the altar to the Son is set, and there his
Father is remembered. Here are all illusions brought to truth and laid upon the altar. What is seen
outside must lie beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while sin is
seen as outside? What remedy can guilt expect? But seen within your mind, guilt and forgiveness
for an instant lie together, side by side, upon one altar. There at last are sickness and its single
remedy joined in one healing brightness. God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete.
And now God´s knowledge, changeless, certain, pure and wholly undertandable, enters its kingdom.
Gone is perception, false and true alike. Gone is forgiveness, for its task is done. And gone are bodies
in the blazing light upon the altar to the Son of God. God knows it is His Own, as it is his. And here they
join, for here the face of Christ has shone away time´s final instant, and now is the last perception of the
world without a purpose and without a cause. For where God´s memory has come at last there is no
journey, no belief in sin, no walls, no bodies, and the grim appeal of guilt and death is there snuffed out
forever.
O my brother, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in
the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. Hallowed your name and His, for they
are joined here in this holy place. Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness;
out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear an given back to love.

Love

JESUS - CHRIST

There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left. But there is need for help
beyond yourself as you are circimscribed by false beliefs of your Identity, Which God alone
established in reality. Helpers are given you in many forms, althrough upon the altar they
are one. Beyond each one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change. But they
have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal. Their names
are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself employs. God does not help
because He knows no need. But He creates all Helpers of His Son while he believes his fantasies
are true. Thank God for them for they will lead you home.
The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers
and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God.
The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being, walking by himself, within a body
that appeared to hold his self from Self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions
and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a Savior because he saw the false without
accepting it as true. And Christ needed his form that He might appear to men and save them from their
own illusions.
In his complete identification with the Christ - the perfect Son of God, His one Creation and His happiness,
forever like Himself and one with Him - Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to
follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him, and he followed it. He made a
clear distinction, still obscure to you, between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that
it is impossible to kill God´s Son; nor can his Life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death.
And therefore all your sins have been forgiven, because they carried no effects at all. And so they were but
dreams. Arise with him who showed you this because you own him this who shared your dreams that they
might be dispelled. And shares them still, to be at one with you.
Is he the Christ? O yes, along with you. His little life on Earth was not enough to teach the Mighty lesson that
he learned for all of you. He will remain with you to lead you from the hell you made to God. And when you join
your will with his, your sight will be his vision for the Eyes of Christ are shared. Walking with him is just at natural
as walking with a brother whom you knew since you were born, for such indeed he is. Some bitter idols have
been made of him who would be only brother to the world. Forgive him you illusions, and behold how dear a
brother he would be to you. For he will set your mind at rest at last and carry it with you unto your God.
Is he God´s only Helper? No, indeed. For Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can
be recongized but Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ´s single message of the Love of God. You need no other.
It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you
yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. Yet
still it is his lesson most of all that he would have you learn, and it is this:

"There is no death beause the Son of God is like
his Father. Nothing you can do can change Eternal
Love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt, and come
with me instead to share the resurrection of God´s
Son. And bring with you all those whom He has sent
to you to care for as I care for you."

Love

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Jesus is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, Whom he called down upon the earth
after he ascended into Heaven, or became completely identified with the Christ,
the Son of God as He created him. The Holy Spirit, being a creation of the One
Creator, creating with Him and in His likeness or spirit, is eternal and has never
changed. He was "called down upon the earth" in the sense that it was now possible
to accept Him and to hear His Voice. His is the Voice of God, and has therefore taken
form. This form is not His reality, which God alone knows along with Christ, His real
Son, Who is part of Him.
The Holy Spirit is decribed throughout the course as giving us the answer to the separation
and bringing the plan of Atonement to us, establishing our particular part in and showing
us exactly what it is. He has established Jesus as the leader in carrying out His plan since
he was the first to complete his own part perfectly. All Power in Heaven and earth is therefore
given him and he will share it with you when you have completed yours. The Atonement
principle was given to the Holy Spirit long before Jesus set it in motion.
The Holy Spirit is decribed as the remaining Communication link between God and His separated
Sons. In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. He knows
because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. He is the great
correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. He
is the light in which the forgiven world is percieved; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. He
never forgets the Creator of His creation. He never forgets the Son of God. Hever forgets your.
And He brings the Love of your Father to you in an eternal shining that will never be obliterated
because God has put it there.
The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind. He represents your
Self and your Creator, Who are one. He speaks for God and also for you, being joined with both.
And therefore it is He Who proves them one. He seems to be a Voice, for in that form He speaks
God´s Word to you. He seems to be a Guide through a far country, for you need that form of help.
He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have. But He is not deceived when you
perceive your self entrapped in needs you do not have. It is from these He would deliver you. It is
from these that He would make you safe.
You are His manifestation in this world. Your brother calls to you to be His Voice along with him.
Alone he cannot be the Helper of God´s Son for he alone is functionless. But joined with you he
is the shining Savior of the world, Whose part in its redemption you have made complete. He offers
thanks to you as well as him for you arose with him when he began to save the world. And you will
be with him when time is over and no trace remains of dreams of sprite in which you dance to
death´s thin melody. For in its place the hymn to God is heard a little while. And then the Voice is gone,
no longer to take form but to return to the eternal Formlessness of God.

Love

EPILOQUE

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go
and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do.
When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could
despair when Hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how to be
deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this
and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end?
The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands Before a lifeless image when a step away the
Holy of the Holies opens up and ancient door that leads beyond the world?
You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help
to roll the stone away, and it is done accroding to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the
end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining ray that held it safe within eternity
and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.
Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have
begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again.
Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. Look up and see His Word among the
starts, where He has set your name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world
would hide but God would have you see.
Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our Gratitude to Him Who called to us and
helped us hear His Call. And then let us raise and go in faith along the way to Him. Now we are sure
we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never
lose the way again. The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, through it seems
to be unsung forever. What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world, knowing
that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of the rebirth will last forever. We had lost our way
but He has found it for us. Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celeberate salvation and
the end of all we thought we made. The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God
is welcomed and His Son with Him. We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, and He give thanks to us.
The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last.

End of the book, hope you enjoy it as much as me :-)

Love
ia

Nicely done....thank you. What's next? ;)

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Originally Posted by Timothy

Nicely done....thank you. What's next? ;)

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:shrug:..we have to waite and see :-)

Love
ia

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

139. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and know me.
2. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
5. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shined as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13. For thou has possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother´s womb.
14. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth.
16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Love

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Originally Posted by IA56

:shrug:..we have to waite and see :-)

Love
ia

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Yup ;)