On 3/16/2025 5:07 PM, Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:
"This course will be believed entirely or not at all. For it is wholly
true or wholly false, and cannot be but partially believed. And you
will either escape from misery entirely or not at all. Reason will tell
you that there is no middle ground where you can pause uncertainly,
waiting to choose between the joy of Heaven and the misery of hell.
Until you choose Heaven, you *are* in hell and misery.
There is no part of Heaven you can take and weave into illusions. Nor
is there one illusion you can enter Heaven with. A savior cannot be a
judge, nor mercy condemnation. And vision cannot damn, but only bless.
Whose function is to save, will save. *How* he will do it is beyond
your understanding, but *when* must be your choice. For time you made,
and time you can command. You are no more a slave to time than to the
world you made."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 22, Section 2 (3pdf)
"Salvation and the Holy Relationship," "Your Brother's Sinlessness"
"Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately
everyone must recognize himself. This recognition is the recognition
that his will and God's are one. In the presence of truth, there are no unbelievers and no sacrifices. In the security of reality, fear is
totally meaningless. To deny what is can only *seem* to be fearful.
Fear cannot be real without a cause, and God is the only Cause. God is
Love and you do want him. This *is* your will. Ask for this and you
will be answered, because you will be asking only for what belongs to you."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 9, Section 1
"The Acceptance of the Atonement," "The Acceptance of Reality"
"Always in sickness does the Son of God attempt to make himself his
cause, and not allow himself to be his Father's Son. For this
impossible desire, he does not believe that he is Love's Effect, and
must be cause because of what he is. The cause of healing is the only
Cause of everything. It has but *one* Effect. And in that recognition, causelessness is given no effects and none is seen. A mind within a
body and a world of other bodies, each with separate minds, are your "creations," you the "other" mind, creating with effects unlike
yourself. And as their "father," you must be like them.
Nothing at all has happened but that you have put yourself to sleep, and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself, and but a part
of someone else's dream. The miracle does not awaken you, but merely
shows you who the dreamer is. It teaches you there is a choice of
dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your
dreaming. Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? A
dream is like a memory in that it pictures what you wanted shown to you.
An empty storehouse, with an open door, holds all your shreds of
memories and dreams. Yet if you are the dreamer, you perceive this much
at least: that you have caused the dream, and can accept another dream
as well. But for this change in content of the dream, it must be
realized that it is you who dreamed the dreaming that you do not like.
It is but an effect that *you* have caused, and you would not be cause
of this effect. In dreams of murder and attack are you the victim in a
dying body slain. But in forgiving dreams is no one asked to be the
victim and the sufferer. These are the happy dreams the miracle
exchanges for your own. It does not ask you make another; only that you
see you made the one you would exchange for this.
This world is causeless, as is every dream that anyone has dreamed
within the world. No plans are possible, and no design exists that
could be found and understood. What else could be expected from a thing
that has no cause? Yet if it has no cause, it has no purpose. You may
cause a dream, but never will you give it real effects. For that would
change its cause, and it is this you cannot do. The dreamer of a dream
is not awake, but does not know he sleeps. He sees illusions of himself
as sick or well, depressed or happy, but without a stable cause with
guaranteed effects.
The miracle establishes you dream a dream, and that its content is not
true. This is a crucial step in dealing with illusions. No one is
afraid of them when he perceives he made them up. The fear was held in
place because he did not see that he was author of the dream, and not a
figure in the dream. He gives himself the consequences that he dreams
he gave his brother. And it is but this the dream has put together and
has offered him, to show him that his wishes have been done. Thus does
he fear his own attack, but sees it at another's hands. As victim, he
is suffering from its effects, but not their cause. He authored not his
own attack, and he is innocent of what he caused. The miracle does
nothing but to show him that he has done nothing. What he fears is
cause without the consequences that would make it cause. And so it
never was."
"Without a cause there can be no effects, and yet without effects there
is no cause. The cause a cause is *made* by its effects; the Father
*is* a Father by His Son. Effects do not create their cause, but they establish its causation. Thus, the Son gives Fatherhood to his Creator,
and receives the gift that he has given Him. It is *because* he is
God's Son that he must also be a father, who creates as God created him.
The circle of creation has no end. Its starting and its ending are
the same. But in itself it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end.
Fatherhood is creation. Love must be extended. Purity is not confined.
It is the nature of the innocent to be forever uncontained, without a
barrier or limitation. Thus is purity not of the body. Nor can it be
found where limitation is. The body can be healed by its effects, which
are as limitless as is itself. Yet must all healing come about because
the mind is recognized as not within the body, and its innocence is
quite apart from it, and where all healing is."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 28, Section 2
"The Undoing of Fear," "Reversing Effect and Cause"
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