January 7th 2014 Lesson 294
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 291 - 300:8. What Is the Real World?
The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your mind. The real world cannot be perceived except through eyes forgiveness blesses, so they see a world where terror is impossible, and witnesses to fear can not be found.
The real world holds a counterpart for each unhappy thought reflected in your world; a sure correction for the sights of fear and sounds of battle which your world contains. The real world shows a world seen differently, through quiet eyes and with a mind at peace. Nothing but rest is there. There are no cries of pain and sorrow heard, for nothing there remains outside forgiveness. And the sights are gentle. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself.
What need has such a mind for thoughts of death, attack and murder? What can it perceive surrounding it but safety, love and joy? What is there it would choose to be condemned, and what is there that it would judge against? The world it sees arises from a mind at peace within itself. No danger lurks in anything it sees, for it is kind, and only kindness does it look upon.
The real world is the symbol that the dream of sin and guilt is over, and God's Son no longer sleeps. His waking eyes perceive the sure reflection of his Father's Love; the certain promise that he is redeemed. The real world signifies the end of time, for its perception makes time purposeless.
The Holy Spirit has no need of time when it has served His purpose. Now He waits but that one instant more for God to take His final step, and time has disappeared, taking perception with it as it goes, and leaving but the truth to be itself. That instant is our goal, for it contains the memory of God. And as we look upon a world forgiven, it is He Who calls to us and comes to take us home, reminding us of our Identity which our forgiveness has restored to us.
Lesson 294
My body is a wholly neutral thing.
- I am a Son of God. And can I be another thing as well? Did God create the mortal and coorruptible? What use has God's beloved Son for what must die? And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it. Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. It is not sick nor old nor hurt. It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.
- Invitation Prayer: My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. And what is not created can not be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made.
Insights/comments:
- Shakespeare said it best: “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” We either are or we are not! We are either the holy children of God, or we are nothing, no-thing, not existing. This is the ultimate uncompromising question, for there is no middle ground, no wiggle room, no shades of grey, it is either all or nothing. Either we are God's Son or we are not God's Son. And if we are not then we do not exist, for God created all that is in existence, and furthermore, God is everything that exists; its all God! If in the beginning there was only God, and in an instant everything came into being, it must follow that everything came into being from God, and therefore is God, for there was no other source from which anything could come. God did not have a local Home Depot where He could acquire materials for creation. He is the only source, and therefore the only cause of everything that is, so everything that is must be Himself. And can God, the eternal, all-mighty perfection of all that is, create something less than perfect and eternal as Himself? Certainly not, for God to create less would mean that His perfection is in some way flawed, which would contradict His omnipotence. No, the undeniable truth is that we, the holy children of God are gods, and we cannot be anything else. Except in dreams where we can be anything we choose: human, male, female, a body, bodiless, angel, demon, good, bad, etc., any and all things that we can imagine, but its all illusions for we cannot not be what we are, and we are gods!
I and my Creator are One. 
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