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It’s A Miracle.
The holiest of all the spots on
earth is where an ancient hatred
has become a present love.
A Course In Miracles
International
Invites You To…
The Advent Of
A Great Awakening
Episode I
with
Master Teacher
miracles
A miracle is a universal blessing from
God through me to
all my brothers.
It is the privilege of the forgiven
to forgive.
Miracles praise God through you.
They praise Him by honoring His
creations, affirming
their perfection.
They heal because they deny
body-identification and affirm
spirit-identification.
I inspire all miracles,
which are really intercessions.
They intercede for your holiness
and make your perceptions holy.
By
placing you beyond the physical laws
they raise you into the sphere of
celestial order.
In this order you are perfect.
—Jesus Of Nazareth
There is a
very good chance that this will be not only the first time that we
have ever met, but also the last time. We’re together here at what
we have decided to call the Advent of a Great Awakening. Ok? The
place is the galaxy Milky Way. The foundation of our organization is
called the planet Earth. We have come here as sojourners from out of
time to demonstrate to each other the adventure of the capacity of
these galactic identities to re-associate in the certainty they can
escape the bondage of space/time.
So we decided
to call it the Advent of a Great Awakening and it’s June in the year
of our Lord two thousand and two. We’re here at the United Nations –
it’s an organization where there is a search for a commonality of
purpose for being within this association of pain and death, and as
a time traveler, you will recognize in the sharing of this adventure
together, your escape from the bondage of this space and time
continuum that has held you in an organizational association that in
fact had no reality at all.
We’re here
under the auspices of A Course in Miracles International. A Course
in Miracles is the systematic way for you as a conceptual
observation of yourself, to change your mind about what you want to
see in relationship with your ideas within space/time, since you are
solely responsible for the universe that you perceive within the
containment of your own mind. So, this is an Advent of a Great
Awakening, and I noticed here we have a very beautiful brochure that
says, “A Course in Miracles International is happy to present to
this world, at this time, the certainty that you will undergo an
experience of enlightenment at this event, and will disappear from
this continuum and it will be no more.” This all under the direction
of my savior, the savior of this world, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
who is the author, directs the consortium from just outside of time,
to demonstrate the manner in which you can escape and did escape.
Let’s take a
quick look at what this adventure out of time says in this little
pamphlet. Listen.
We are
celebrating our escape from this place of darkness and death to the
light of eternal life. We have discovered through the unworldly
masterpiece that is A Course In Miracles a mind training that is
leading to the very real, physical, mental and emotional
transformation of ourselves and the recognition that each of us is a
whole part of the eternally creating source of all reality.
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Isn’t that
lovely? We’re coming together at this time and in this place to
declare that, contained within our memories of loss and pain and
death, is a moment of the entire realization of our correspondence
in space/time. And we’re going to demonstrate it together by a
continuing recognition of illumination of our minds that I’m
offering you right here and now. Listen to what this says.
We will
share the memory of our awakening and realization of Christ Mind and
demonstrate the power of all minds to undergo a complete
reformulation that recognizes the joy and happiness that is the
eternal life that we share with God.
Here it is.
Now is the time, this is the place, and we are all invited
together.
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The healing
aspects that are occurring right now in our associations together on
this video are important to you if you’ll recognize the fundamental
ideas that we present to you within this Course in Miracles. Ok? The
very nature of my presentation to you, from my mind, is to show you
that we share a single mind in all of the universe. And, though we
appear to be separate from each other, that cannot not include then
the responsibility that you will see what you put out into the world
and get the result of your association with yourself. Inevitably,
when we begin one of these sojourns into time, we always remind you
of what salvation’s keynote is. Listen.
Here it is,
the power of salvation. This is the only thing you need do for
vision, happiness, release from pain and the complete escape from
sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no
reservations, for here the power of salvation lies: Listen.
I
am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I
decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I
ask for, and receive as I have asked.
Chapter 21; The Responsibility for Sight
This is the
only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain
and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only
this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of
salvation lies:
I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I
decide upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me I
ask for, and receive as I have asked.
Chapter 21, The
Responsibility for Sight
What a
peculiar strange idea, that within your own conceptual self, you
would accept from me at this time and place, my certainty that
everything that you’re seeing within this space/time association is
only an aggregation of your own thoughts about what you want to see
in what you believe is your location in space/time. Let’s look at it
together just for a moment, because I can see now that the light,
the light of our minds together, is beginning to offer us a solution
within the correspondences of what appear to be our body identities
with a new vision possibility – we call this healing.
Within the
Course in Miracles, we demonstrate the certainty of your innate
capacity to reconfigurate the energy light associations by which you
identify yourself. What will be the procedure at this Advent of a
Great Awakening, as you allow the fundamental idea of self-
responsibility to become a part of the alternative you want to be
true? The light of the universe, which was being held at bay by your
determination not to accept the fundamental nature of responsibility
– we call this fear – has kept you from seeing the certainty of the
love and joy that we share at this time.
This is an
adventure, isn’t it? The idea – there – the idea that we can see
each other at this moment in a new perspective of how we want to
appear to each other. Initially, when you have come together with
the associations within this formulation, you have recognized them
as bodies, haven’t you? You have looked at their historic references
contained within the body, and you have given them a name or
identification within the association of time that justifies a
location based on coming here, being here and dying. What’s going to
occur in this new continuum of time will be moments of recognition –
and this is what the healing process is – of ourselves before time
was and after time is over. This has become very popular, hasn’t it?
We call it “a quantum instant” where we don’t cover the here and
now.
But at this
advent will begin to recognize ourselves – there we did it – we
begin to recognize ourselves in a moment of correspondence. Could
you see me just then? Am I in your memory? Shall we share together
some very fundamental teachings for a moment about the Course?
Everything is in your memory. Everything that’s happening to you in
this space/time association is part of the aggregation of the
certainty that you can define yourself in time and occupy this
space/time location, which you define as life and deny yourself
access to the light that is all around you.
When you
perform acts of protective nature within your own concepts, you
people the world with ideas about yourself, based on your
uncertainty of who you really are. Ok? So when we first come
together in this Advent of Awakening, we really believe that we are
separate people in momentarily separate places in space/time. So we
have young ones and old ones and sick ones and dying ones and live
ones and happy and sad, all of it contained within your own mind.
Listen just for a moment about what time is and how you organize it
in association with this course.
The ego
has a strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your
questioning might well begin. The ego invests heavily in the past,
and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time
that is meaningful. Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it
to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and
thus avoiding the present. By the notion of paying for the past in
the future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making
them continuous without an intervening present.
Chapter 13,
The Function of Time
This speaks
of the ego and how you identify yourself:
You have a
strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your
questioning might well begin. You invest heavily in the past, and in
the end believe that the past is the only aspect of time that is
meaningful. Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure
its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding
the here and now. By the notion of paying for the past in the
future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them
continuous without an intervening present.
That’s what
we’re trying to do right now, aren’t we? I am trying to intervene
between your human associations with each other and show you – are
you ready? – that we share a single whole mind, that we come from a
common source, that our reality is universal and that for just a
moment we’ve been trapped in space/time. Listen to how it’s
described here.
It dictates
your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past
reference point, obscuring their present reality. In effect, if you
follow the ego's dictates you will react to your brother as though
he were someone else, and this will surely prevent you from
recognizing him as he is. And you will receive messages from him
out of your own past because, by making it real in the present, you
are forbidding yourself to let it go. You thus deny yourself the
message of release that every brother offers you now.
Chapter 13, The Function of Time
When you come
together here in this Advent of a Great Awakening, most of you who
have become Teachers of God, immediately begin to share the
certainty of a single source of reality, that allows you to overlook
– we call this forgiveness, don’t we? – to forgive the nature of the
defenses we have employed to keep from recognizing who we really
are. Remember on the Teachers Manual videos, how we have been saying
that there is one savior of the world? We’re doing a sequence of
Teachers Manual videos where we ask you, individually, to accept
responsibility for this world, because you are responsible for it.
But each one peoples his world with ideas of his own containment of
conceptual form, and is unable to recognize himself because he is
fearful of the totality of his reality through the Love of God,
which would deny the necessity for him to protect himself, or for
you to protect yourself within your own concepts. Look at this.
The
shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape.
Why? They are not real and they have no hold over you unless you
bring them with you. They carry the spots of pain in your mind,
directing you to attack in the present in retaliation for a past
that is no more. Listen. And this decision is one of future
pain. Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are
choosing a future of illusions and loosing the many opportunities by
which you could find release in the present. Listen. The Holy
Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself and the encounter is
holy because you are. The ego teaches that you always encounter your
past, and because your dreams were not holy, the future cannot be,
and the present then is without meaning to you at all.
Chapter 13;
The Function of Time
The shadowy
figures from the past are precisely what you must escape. They are
not real, and have no hold over you unless you bring them with you.
They carry the spots of pain in your mind, directing you to attack
in the present in retaliation for a past that is no more.
The Holy
Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is
holy because you are. The ego teaches that you always
encounter your past, and because your dreams were not holy, the
future cannot be, and the present is without meaning.
Chapter
13; The Function of Time
Let’s look
together, just for a moment, at what we want to say here now in this
continuum of the Advent of a Great Awakening. Everyone that you’re
meeting – all right – in this idea of A Course in Miracles
International, has become the practice of the Workbook of the Course
which teaches you in a systematic way to change your mind about
everything that you think you see within the arrangement of the
confinement of yourself in space/time.
Let’s look
together at it just for a moment because you’re going to begin to
discover, as you look about, that the body, perhaps that you thought
was separate from you – this would be through an act of forgiveness,
won’t it? – just for a moment he’s going to look at you as you look
at him with a new reference of space/time that will instantly
integrate the concepts that previously denied you access to
yourself. Are you listening to me? It’s impossible that you’re not
meeting yourself. Remember the teachings that are very fundamental
to our savior, Jesus Christ, when he says, “Forgive your brother,”
when he teaches you in Sermon on the Mount that what goes around is
going to come around, and that everything that you’re seeing out
there is only reflecting your determination to stay separate within
that body.
Will you
forgive me just for a moment, so that I may offer you my certainty
of your perfection? Say to me: I am as God created me. Yes. Yes.
This from our Savior: All power is given unto you in Heaven and
Earth. There is nothing you cannot do. You play a game of death as
though you could isolate yourself in this little pocket of
containment of dark light. And defend yourself against any idea the
power that you could employ to view yourself in this new perspective
that we’re offering to each other in this adventure of a Great
Awakening.
Shall we
share what we just talked about in our memories out there? When we
gather together in this perspective, here in New York, here where
the terrible catastrophe of September 11 occurred, we recognize the
continuing chaos of our inability to find the peace and harmony for
which we are searching. My direction to you is that there is no
escape in the continuity of time that appears to be established
within this slow framework of cause and effect, very simply because
until you change your mind about yourself and your reason for being
here, no change is possible. Now, the perspective that we’re sharing
right there, in the healing idea, in the idea that we are perfect
and whole as we were created, allows us to momentarily see a new
vision of our self-identity and recognize a true purpose for why
we’re here. The sole purpose of this gathering in the adventure of
the idea that we are located in space/time is to demonstrate our
immediate capacity to escape.
The time has
come and did when you will no longer like the particulars of the
fear and loneliness and subsequent death that have defined you in
this little parameter of consciousness. But you remember this – this
is very important – everyone that you’re meeting, even within this
Event, you will only see in the perspective of your old
associations, which are actually past. In effect, when you view him,
he actually isn’t there at all. This is one of the fundamental
teachings of quantum reality: At the speed of light, by the time you
observe each other within this continuity of time, it is already
past. Do you see that? You make strange use of the continuity of
time, which is actually going on all the time, within the entirety
of the parameter of a continuum of time, in its continuing extension
out into the universe, and sequence it within the little limitations
of the organization of your mind. Listen to this.
Each
one peoples his world with figures from his individual past, and
it is because of this that private worlds do differ. Yet the
figures that he sees were never real, for they are made up only of
his reactions to his brothers, and do not include their reactions
to him. Therefore, he does not see he made them, and that they are
not whole. For these figures have no witnesses, being perceived in
one separate mind only.
It is
through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to
their insane world. For they see only those who remind them of these
images, and it is to them that they relate. Thus do they communicate
with those who are not there, and it is they who answer them.
Chapter 13;
The Two Emotions
We’re going
to have to rap up this first thirty minutes, aren’t we? I want you
to look at me, just for a moment, at the end of this original
Adventure in the idea that we are together here. Everyone that
you’re meeting is only a figure in your own past associations with
yourself. The moment that you identify them in a continuity of
sequential time, you literally are nowhere. One of the great
attractions of the idea of a matrix of a correspondence of time,
that is the energy of visionary associations contained within the
illusion of time, will show you instantly that you have no
causation. If the cause of you – I’m looking right at you now within
your idea of yourself – is always over, how could you possibly find
the present? Since it is over to you, you project your past into the
future and cover what’s going to occur at this event. What’s going
to occur? The time has come at last when we’re going to recognize
each other. How will that be accomplished? By offering each other
the love and forgiveness of our conceptual associations that are a
part of our individual paths, that describe our determination to
hold grievance and pain and loneliness and death with all of the
peoples within this continuity. The moment of recognition that just
occurred there, is a reflection to you of who you really are. Ok? I
am representing to you, as what you call an enlightened teacher, a
reflection of how you actually look, within the entirety of the
continuity of time, without the need to surround yourself
conceptually with defenses against the Love of God that we share.
We’ll be back
in just a moment to continue this Adventure in the Great Awakening
that’s occurring now within this continuum through this Course.
Remember that
God goes with us wherever we go, because God is the mind with which
we’re thinking and processing the totality of self-realization.
Shall we say it together? God bless us. Everyone.
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So here we
are at this Advent of a Great Awakening, and we’re offering a visual
association of ourselves based on – perhaps you received this little
brochure, it is describing what we intend to do here in New York
during this four-day period, because indeed it can be a time when we
can recognize each other. Ok? Listen to what this says at the bottom
of the first page.
Quantum
Mindfulness
Is it
possible? Indeed it is!
Is it
possible to change your mind so completely about yourself and the
Universe you seem to inhabit so as to alter in a quantum instant the
entirety of your apparent space/time location?
Listen.
The answer is Yes! How? Through the Mind Training of A Course in
Miracles. At last, a long awaited systematic way for you to enter a
new more rapidly alternating continuum of time that is all around
you. And in corresponding conversion of, and through the power of
your thoughts cognify a brand new “here and now.” An instant
experience of joy and happiness of your escape from the imprisonment
of dark light that is the location in space/ time of this world of
fear and death.
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What a joyful
occasion that you’ve actually allowed within your parameter of fear,
the idea of Quantum Communication to enter in your ideas of
conceptual self. Why has that been difficult for you? Very simply
because your fear is actually entire, entirely this moment in time.
Your fear of being, just for a moment, in the entire instant of
separation from eternal life is why you’re here. Can you see this
with me? So you people associations within your own mind that
justify a continuity of sequential time that deny you access to what
this Adventure, here, today and tomorrow, is excitingly going to
show you. Because, as a Teacher of God, which you have decided to be
through this Course, you’re suddenly going to be walking the street,
you’re going to come together in aggregations and you’re going to
begin to recognize each other. Are you ready? What we’re telling you
is true. You have peopled this world with images that represent what
you think you are, and since you are uncertain within your own
conceptual idea of yourself who you are, you represent to other
minds their uncertainty. You then confirm it in the idea of who
you’re not, because if there is one thing you can be certain in the
whole universe is who you are. So that everyone you meet is just as
unknowing as you are. How do you perform the act? By the idea of
sequential time, rather than the admission that all of time, in the
whole universe, is going on here and now. Listen to how this sounds
from the Text.
To perceive
truly is to be aware of all reality through the awareness of your
own. But for this no illusions can rise to meet your sight, for
reality leaves no room for any error. This means that you perceive
a brother only as you see him now. His past has no reality in the
present, so you cannot see it. Your past reactions to him are also
not there, and if it is to them that you react, you see but an image
of him that you made and cherish instead of him. In your
questioning of illusions, ask yourself if it is really sane to
perceive what was as now. If you remember the past as you look upon
your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is
now.
Chapter
13; Finding the Present
Can you see
that with me? Where we’re meeting right now, we momentarily
represent images of the organization of our conceptual mind
associations that we have brought into this continuum to identify
ourselves. If this is true, it’s impossible that we won’t see
ourselves as bodies and believe that we are occupying space/time
locations in separate body identities. What’s the fundamental
mission and admission that’s required? That you’re the cause of it.
If you can recognize, momentarily, that there’s nothing outside of
you, the healing process of your mind will be instantaneous. And,
not only will you be healed of all of the ideas you have about
yourself as a body, it’s impossible you will not then look anew at
what you previously projected from your mind in order to protect
yourself within the illusion of separate bodies.
Are you
listening to me? There isn’t anything out there. You’ve come
together in this Advent of Awakening to admit in a very fundamental
sense, that you are the cause of this and that everyone you’re
meeting is responding to you in exactly the manner that you asked
them to do. Now, a moment later, you’re not at all certain that you
want that definition of yourself. And you end up in the terror of
fear that is representing what’s going on in this continuum of time
today. You do consider it natural to base what you see out there on
your past associations. It is not natural at all. Your natural
association would show you instantly that you are a part of
Universal Mind, the Mind of God, and that you extend the power of
your mind with His in the certainty of eternal life. And, further,
that time lasted just for that moment in your mind, with no effect
on eternity. Here is how it is expressed in Chapter 13 of the Text.
Listen.
You
consider it "natural" to use your past experience as the reference
point from which to judge the present. Yet this is unnatural
because it is delusional. When you have learned to look on everyone
with no reference at all to the past, either his or yours as you
perceived it, you will be able to learn from what you see now.
Chapter 13; Finding the Present
Time can
release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it
you use. Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you
force continuity on them. You can perceive them as continuous, and
make them so for you. But do not be deceived, and then believe that
this is how it is. For to believe reality is what you would have it
be according to your use for it is delusional.
Listen.
You would destroy time’s continuity by breaking it into past,
present and future for your own purposes. You would anticipate the
future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it
accordingly.
Yet by
doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the
miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born
again.
Here’s a
crucial sentence. The present is before time was, and will be
when time is no more. In it are all things that are eternal, and
they are one. Their continuity is timeless and their communication
is unbroken, for they are not separated by the past. Only the past
can separate, and it is nowhere.
Chapter 13;
Finding the Present
Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose
interpretation of it you use. Past, present and future are not
continuous, unless you force continuity on them.
You can
perceive them as continuous, and make them so for you. But do not
be deceived, and then believe that this is how it is. For to
believe reality is what you would have it be according to your use
for it is delusional. You would destroy time's continuity by
breaking it into past, present and future for your own purposes.
You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past
experience, and plan for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are
aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could
intervene between them, to free you to be born again.
The
present is before time was, and will be when time is no more. In it
are all things that are eternal, and they are one. Their continuity
is timeless and their communication is unbroken, for they are not
separated by the past. Only the past can separate, and it is
nowhere.
Chapter
13; Finding the Present
So, the idea
that you are associated with something that’s already over and gone
is the fundamental nature of my offering to you right here and now.
Shall we try it together? The only time that there is, is here and
now. Will you say that we me? Here we are. Here we are, here and
now. Good. Just for a moment, you were willing to begin to entertain
the idea that contained within the faculty of your conceptual
association, was a reality not associated with this time factor at
all. What did we just read? You would destroy time’s continuity,
which is the simple admission of a continuing association of light
form going on in the universe. Ok? A consortium of conversion of
light that demonstrates the power of the mind to escape from
space/time that previously defined it. What did we have to do?
First, we had
to locate where we were, through the admission that we would need to
look at the fear that we were feeling in the idea of a single
location within time. In the galactic evidence that’s being
presented to you now within this space/time reference, it’s very
possible for you to recognize that you don’t belong in this
continuum. The only possibility that we would gather together in
this time and place, at this time of fear and anxiety and loneliness
and death that seems to be so much a part of this slow continuity of
time, would be to realize, that available to us at this moment, is a
complete and whole alternative of the re-association of the
continuity of space/time that allows us to enter into a new
arrangement of our minds that shows us – what? – the entirety of the
light and love that we share with God.
We’ll take
just a couple of minutes here now, because the reason for this
gathering, even though we may have begun with the need for you to
look at where you have found yourself in correspondence with the
world, would be to show you that there’s another world all around
you that is available to you at this instant, if you will decide
against deciding the results that have shown you the particulars of
your containment within time. This will be a part of the healing
process, won’t it? Be reasonable with me. Your memories of your past
can be brought into the present, if you’ll stop making predictions
about the result you want within your own mind, based on your past
association. How can you do that?
Time is not
sequential. All of the continuity of space/time is going on right
here and right now. Where is it going on? Say to me: In my mind.
Yeah. This world that you see is a procedure of a momentary
recognition of yourself, separate from eternal life. And you define
it as time, don’t you? And you live within that little sequence of
time and you believe that you’re a body. And within the dream
association you have about yourself, you see figures of other bodies
come and go that represent nothing but the continuity of your own
association with yourself in your dream. Am I in your dream? Yes. Am
I offering to you at your bequest in this time and place my
certainty of your certainty? Could you see that with me? There was a
healing that occurred right there.
I am very
certain about who I am, based on the procedure of illumination that
happened in my self-recognition. The ordeal that all human
identities undergo in the metamorphose of their realization of
enlightened mind – there is nothing new about this. This has
happened. Ok?
This Course
in Miracles is a course in the enlightenment of your mind. I am
offering you, in the light of our re-association, yourself. I hope
to give you at this time, a better reflection within your own mind
of the singularity of yourself that will give you a new purpose
through this great adventure in forgiveness of the illusion of
separate figures that were out there, in the simple realization that
you’ve actually only been attacking yourself. And that all of the
defenses that you have employed, going on in this place of terror,
have only been to keep yourself in a single moment to recognize the
entirety of who you are in Universal Mind. Let’s look at it, just
for a few minutes in one of the lessons of the Course.
Just a little
bit about it from Lesson 170:
No one
attacks without intent to hurt. This can have no exception. When you
think that you attack in self-defense, you mean that to be cruel is
protection; you are safe because of cruelty.
How
thoroughly insane is the idea that to defend from fear is to attack!
For here is fear begot and fed with blood, to make it grow and swell
and rage. And thus is fear protected, not escaped.
And this is going on in the world, isn’t it? Today we learn a
lesson which can save you more delay and needless misery than you
can possibly imagine. It is this:
You make
what you defend against, and by
Your own
defense against it, is it real
And
inescapable. Lay down your arms,
And only
then
will you
perceive that it is false.
Lesson 170
We might as
well look at it together. There isn’t any question that in this
world it seems as though there is terror going on and everybody is
defending themselves from all their associations within their own
mind. I am offering you my certainty, within your own dream of
death, that this is not true.
Certainly,
the most fearful message that you could hear from me is that there
is no world. As you begin to look at the enemy, who you previously
designed to attack yourself so that you could defend yourself, as a
friend who wants to share with you escape from this continuity of
time – this is what forgiveness is, isn’t it? This is why we’re
gathered at this Advent. We see that the images that previously were
attacking us, in a moment of sharing of light, we invite to come
into the new parameter of space/time we have discovered in a common
purpose that has now become a part of our reality.
The
fundamental purpose and reason for the Advent of A Course in
Miracles International is now going on in this continuum of time,
that came to us from out of time as a message from my savior, Jesus
Christ resurrected, was to demonstrate to you very simply – all
right? - very simply, the simple admission that you love the Lord
your God with all of your heart, with all of your mind, with all of
your soul and – what? – your neighbor as yourself. Because your
neighbor is yourself. You might as well hear this from me. As long
as you protect yourself within your own frame of sequential time,
you’re going to be here. What are you going to do? You’re going to
begin to repeat over and over and over again, the single instant
when the time of terror took the place of love. You’re going to end
up here reenacting within this framework of time, the terror that
represented that moment, which was over and gone a long time ago.
Listen just for a minute to this.
The Son
whom God created is as free as God created him. He was reborn the
instant that he chose to die instead of live. And will you not
forgive him now, because he made an error in the past that God
remembers not, and is not there?
Look. Now
you are shifting back and forth between the past and the
present. Sometimes the past seems real, as if it were the present.
Voices from the past are heard and then are doubted. You are like
the one who still hallucinates, but lacks conviction in what he
perceives. This is the borderland between the worlds, the bridge
between the past and present. Here the shadow of the past remains,
but still a present light is dimly recognized. Once it is seen, this
light can never be forgotten. It must draw you from the past into
the present, where you really are.
Chapter 26;
The Little Hindrance
Ok, so let’s
look at it together in this Advent of A Great Awakening. Many of you
who have come into this parameter of association, have done what?
You brought your past with you. Can you see what this just offered
you? You come into a moment of light, you recognize the present, but
if you stayed in the present, there would be no need for you to
occupy this body at all. Why? The present is the only time that
there is, and you would instantly, in a quantum instant, disappear
entirely, because this is an illusion of correspondence of what you
call potential or dark light.
What did we
say? A matrix of energy that has no causation. When you come for a
moment – and this is the Advent of that Awakening – into this
moment, it gives you a moment of joy. Now for many of you, it’s
followed instantly by a moment of fear, because you are still
peopling your own continuity of time with the fear of the present.
Could you see that? So what we’re offering each other now in this
adventure of awakening, is a moment in space/time that is – are you
ready? – actually the only moment in space/time that there is.
Perhaps what
we’ll do, with your permission, and this is a two hour segment based
on this New York adventure, we’ll come back and we’ll begin to show
each other how we’ve come into this meeting place for the sole
purpose of re-associating ourselves in time. Now, the little chaos
that will be initially connected with it, is nothing but definitions
of yourself that you are afraid to release. So that when the reports
about this go out into the world, the world will report the nature
of your separate body associations and perhaps will not see how you
have come together in holy instances to recognize each other.
The advent of
love, of truth, of happiness in this Course in Miracles has become
the entirety of a procedure within this continuum. Ok? It’s now a
part of our separate identities in which we begin to recognize
ourselves in the moment of correspondence that is our escape from
time.
Do you see
that with me? This Advent is to offer you, at this time and place,
that certainty. This will be a two-hour segment. When we come back,
I am going to offer you a little continuity of time, where perhaps
you can find the peace that I’d like to have you share with me. It’s
a sharing of self-certainty. It’s an indication, that is, what you
call an advanced teacher. I am enlightened in the factoring of my
association with the universe and am offering you that light in your
own self-recognition.
I’ll see you
in just a moment. Remember in this Adventure, that God goes with us
wherever we go, because God is the Mind with which we think and in
which we make application of the power of creation in the
expressions of our self. Let’s say it together:
God bless us.
Everyone.
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