August 26th 2014 Lesson 161
Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.
- Intention: To look past the physical body and through Christ's vision see our brothers perfect holiness and our own salvation.
- Practice: Since bodies are but symbols for a concrete form of fear, we will practice today with this symbol of our fear. We are all one, so we will look upon the body of a single brother, symbol of the rest, and ask salvation of him.
- Application:
-- Select one brother as the subject of your focus. See him first as clearly as you can, in that same form to which your are accustomed. See his face, his hands and feet, his clothing. Watch him smile, and see familiar gestures which he makes so frequently. Then think of this: What you are seeing now conceals from you the sight of one who can forgive you all your sins; whose sacred hands can take away the nails which pierce your own, and lift the crown of thorns which you have placed upon your bleeding head. Ask this of him, that he may set you free:
Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you.And He will answer Whom you called upon. For He will hear the Voice for God in you, and answer in your own. Behold him now, whom you have seen as merely flesh and bone, and recognize that Christ has come to you. Today's idea is your safe escape from anger and from fear. Be sure you use it instantly, should you be tempted to attack a brother and perceive in him the symbol of your fear. And you will see him suddenly transformed from enemy to savior; from the devil into Christ.
Insights/comments:
- We are all one in God. To help us practice seeing with the eyes of Christ, we will focus upon what we see but look past it to what we know to be true, that this physical symbol we see before us is but a poor symbol of the perfect Spirit God created, and it is to that perfect Spirit we speak ask salvation of.
- When we put a stick partially into water it appears broken from a certain angle. The appearance that we see is not the reality for we know the stick is not broken. Just so, let us not be fooled by the optical illusion that we perceive when we look upon bodies, for their condition is not the true condition of the perfect spirit behind it. See the body, but remember that it is but a poor symbol of what God created us to be--perfect, Spirit, free!
I and my Creator are One. 
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