IA´s Journal

[IA56]

LESSON 319

"I came for the salvation of the world."

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and
only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is
no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space
the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and
therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The
ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the
Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

"Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares
its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have
given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared
with You."

Love

[IA56]

LESSON 320

"My Father gives all power unto me."

The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his
Peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation.
What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy
will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind,
and lays before it all the strength and love in Earth and Heaven. I am
he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power of my
Father´s Will abides.

"Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world
as well through me. There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power
has been given to Your Son."

Love



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[IA56]

WHAT IS CREATION?

Creation is the sum of all God´s Thoughts, in number infinite, and
everywhere without all limit. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.
There was no time when all that It created was not there. Nor will
there be a time when anything that It created suffers any loss. Forever
and forever are God´s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are,
unchanged though time and after time is done.
God´s Thoughts are given all the power that their own Creator has.
For He would add to Love by its extension. Thus His Son shares in
creation, and must therefore share in power to create. What God has
willed to be forever one will still be one when time is over; and will
not be changed throughout the course of time, remaining as it was
before the thought of time began.
Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for Creation is the truth.
Creation is the holy Son of God, for in Creation is His Will complete
in every aspect, making every part container of the Whole. Its
oneness is forever guaranteed inviolate; forever held within His holy
Will, beyond all possibility of harm, of separation, imperfection and
of any spot upon its sinlessness.
We are creation; we the Sons of God. We seem to be discrete, and
unaware of our eternal unity with Him. Yet back of all our doubts,
past all our fears, there still is certainty. For Love remains with all Its
Thoughts, Its sureness being theirs. God´s memory is in our holy
minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator.
Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God´s
Will be done on Earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as
God created us.
Our Father calls to us. We hear His Voice, and we forgive Creation
in the Name of its Creator, Holiness Itself, Whose holiness His Own
creation shares; Whose holiness is still a part of us.

LESSON 321

"Father, my freedom is in You alone."

"I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is,
nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I
Heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more.
For I have neither made nor understood that way to find my freedom.
But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your
holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me, and the way to
You is opening and clear to me at last, Father, my freedom is in You
alone, Father, it is my will that I return."

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed alone with us.
How glad are we to find our freedom though the certain way our
Father has established. And how sure is all the world´s salvation,
when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.

Love

[IA56]

LESSON 322

"I can give up but what was never real."

I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. And as illusions go I find the
gift illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in
readiness to give God´s ancient messages to me. His memory abides
in every gift that I receive of Him. And every dream serves only to
conceal the Self Which is God´s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the
Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.

"Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. And so
I cannot sacrifice execpt in dreams. As You created me. I can give up
nothing You gave me. What You did not give has no reality. What
loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into
my mind?"

Love

[IA56]

LESSON 323

"I gladly make the `sacrifice`of fear."

"Here is the only `sacrifice`You ask Your beloved Son; You ask
him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety
and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his
awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal
joy. Such is the `sacrifice`You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the
only `cost`of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of
the world."

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth, - a debt that merely is the
letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely -
truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no
longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace
again, for fear has gone and only love remains.

Love

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LESSON 324

"I merely follow, for I would not lead."

"Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to
me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step
is my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to
wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always
call me back, and guide my feet aright. My Brothers all can follow in
the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You
direct me and would have me go."

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and
we cannot stray except an instant from His loving hand. We walk
together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending
sure, and guarantees a safe returning home.

Love

[IA56]

LESSON 325

"All things I Think I see reflect ideas."

This is salvation´s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my
mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind
makes up an image of the things the mind desires, judges valuable, and
therefore seeks to find. The images are then projected outward,
looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one´s own. From
insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a
world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world
comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a
kindly home where he can rest a while Before he journeys on, and
help his Brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven
and to God.

"Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from
Yours but make up Dreams. Let me behold what only Your reflect,
for Yours and Yours alone establish truth."

Love

[IA56]

LESSON 326

"I am forever an Effect of God."

"Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left
its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are
my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You
established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me,
because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and
Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of
God, and so I have the Power to create like You. And as it is in
Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know
¨that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your
Love, where Earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in
glory as the Son of God."

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and
then, forgiven, fade entirely into God´s holy Will.

Love