January 31th 2014 Lesson 318
Part II Introduction
We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal. During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
This is how 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. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. 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.
Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us. They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us. The next of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 311 - 320:10. What Is the Last Judgment
Christ's Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception ends. At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.
The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless. Without a cause, and now without a function in Christ's sight, it merely slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well. And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it. Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the Son of God is limitless.
You who believed that God's Last Judgment would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God's Judgment is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. To fear God's saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.
God's Final Judgment is as merciful as every step in His appointed plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this. Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad acceptance, which will set it free.
This is God's Final Judgment: "You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore awaken and return to Me. I am your Father and you are My Son."
Lesson 318
In me salvation's means and end are one.
- In me, God's holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven's plan to save the world. What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? I am the means by which God's Son is saved, because salvation's purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. I was created as the thing I seek. I am the goal the world is searching for. I am God's Son, His one eternal Love. I am salvation's means and end as well.
- Invitation Prayer: Let me today, my Father, take the role you offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You .
Insights/comments:
- Here is an explanation of today's lesson title. God, who is everything created His Son, the sonship of you and I and everything that exists, as an extension of Himself, as a means of simultaneously experiencing Himself in all His infinite glory. We who experience ourselves as separate entities are simply aspects of God experiencing Itself not as the Whole, but as the individuated parts of the Whole. Just as the ocean can only know itself as the ocean by knowing itself as each individual drop of water, the combined drops that make each wave, each current, each whirlpool, the vapor and ice that temperature changes bring, and all the different forms that water can take. Only in knowing these can the ocean truly know itself as the ocean. Like that, God already knowing Himself as God, created us, as an extension so that He may experience Himself and all the little parts that make up Himself, as well as the interaction of all these parts among themselves. This being the case, one part of God is in all ways equal to all other parts, and all parts remain forever connected to each other as the one eternal source of All-that-Is. Each part is interchangeable and no part can stand alone and separate from the rest for thus is God able to experience Himself as the whole, and simultaneously as every individual part of Himself. Thus the All is one and the one is All. Thus, where else can salvation's means and ends exist, but in the All, and in the All appearing as you and I and all that exists as the individuated parts of the All.
I and my Creator are One. 
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