Chapter
11 - God's Plan of Salvation
The
Vision of Christ
The
ego is trying to teach you how to gain the
whole world and lose your own Soul. The
Holy Spirit teaches that you cannot
cannot lose your Soul and there is no gain
in the world, for of itself it profits nothing.
To
invest in something without profit is surely
to impoverish yourself, and the overhead is
high. Not only is there no profit in the investment,
but the cost to you is enormous. For this
investment costs you the world’s reality
by denying yours, and gives you nothing in
return.
You
cannot sell your Soul, but you can sell your
awareness of it.
You
cannot perceive your Soul, but you will not
know it while you perceive anything else as
more valuable. The
Holy Spirit is your strength because He perceives
nothing but your Soul as you. He is perfectly
aware that you do not know yourselves, and
perfectly aware of how to teach you what you
are. Because
He loves you, He will gladly teach you what
He loves, for He wills to share it. Remembering
you always, He cannot let you forget your
worth. For the Father never ceases to remind
Him of His Son, and He never ceases to remind
His Son of the Father.
God
is in your memory because of Him. You chose
to forget your Father but you did not will
to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise.
As
it was my decision, so is it yours.
You
do not want the world.
The
only thing of value in it is whatever part
of it you look upon with love. This gives
it the only reality it will ever have. Its
value is not in itself, but yours IS in you.
As self-value comes from self-extension, so
does the percpetion of self-value come from
the projection of loving thoughts outward.
Make
the world real unto yourself, for the real
world is the gift of the Holy Spirit, and
so it belongs to you.
Correction is for all who cannot see.
To
open the eyes of the blind is the Holy Spirit’s
mission, for He knows that they have not lost
their vision, but merely sleep. He
would awaken them from the sleep of forgetting
to the remembering of God. Christ’s
eyes are open, and He will look upon whatever
you see with love if you accept His vision
as yours.
The
Holy Spirit keeps the vision of Christ for
every Son of God who sleeps. In His sight
the Son of God is perfect, and He longs to
share His vision with you. He
will show you the real world because God gave
you Heaven. Through Him your Father calls
His Son to remember. The awakening of His
Son begins with his investment in the real
world, and by this he will learn to re-invest
in himself. For reality is one with the Father
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit blesses the
real world in Their Name.
When you have seen this real world, as you
will surely do, you will remember us. Yet
you must learn the cost of sleeping, and refuseto
pay it. Only then will you decide to awaken.
And then the real world will spring to your
sight, for Christ has never slept. He is waiting
to be seen, for He has never lost sight of
you.
He
looks quietly on the real world, which He
would share with you because He knows of the
Father’s Love for Him. And knowing this,
He would give you what is yours.
In
perfect peace He waits for you at His Father’s
altar, holding out the Father’s Love
to you in the quiet light of the Holy Spirit’s
blessing. For the Holy Spirit will lead everyone
home to his Father, where Christ waits as
his Self.
Every
Child of God is one in Christ, for his Being
is in Christ as Christ’s is in God.
Christ’s love for you is His love for
His Father, which He knows because He knows
His Father’s Love for Him.
When
the Holy Spirit has at last led you to Christ
at the altar to His Father, perception fuses
into knowledge because perception has become
so holy that its transfer to holiness is merely
its natural extension. Love
transfers to love without any interference,
for the situations are identical.
As
you perceive more and more common elements
in all situations, the transfer of your training
under the Holy Spirit’s guidance increases
and becomes generalized. Gradually
you learn to apply it to everyone and everything,
for its applicability is universal. When this
has been accomplished, perception and knowledge
have become so similar that they share the
unification of the laws of God.
What is one cannot be perceived as separate,
and the denial of the separation is the re-instatement
of knowledge.
At
the altar of God, the holy perception of God’s
Son becomes so enlightened that light streams
into it, and the Spirit of God’s Son
shines in the Mind of the Father and becomes
One with It.
Very
gently does God shine upon Himself, loving
the extension of Himself which is His Son.
The world has no purpose as it blends into
the Purpose of God. For the real world has
slipped quietly into Heaven, where everything
eternal in it has always been. There the Redeemer
and the redeemed join in perfect love of God
and of each other. Heaven
is your home, and being in God it must also
be in you.