Chapter
5 - Healing and Wholeness
Voice
For God
It is possible
even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other.
It takes effort and great willingness to learn. It is
the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as
equal as learners as they are as Souls.
The Voice
of the Holy Spirit is the call to Atonement or the restoration
of the integrity of the mind. When the Atonement is complete
and the whole Sonship is healed, there will be no call
to return, but what God creates is eternal. The Holy Spirit
will remain with the Sons of God to bless their creations
and keep them in the light of joy.
You are
the Kingdom of Heaven, but you have let the belief in
darkness enter your minds, and so you need a new light.
The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish
the idea of darkness. His is the glory before which dissociation
falls away and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into
its own.
Before
the separation you did not need guidance.
You knew
as you will know again, but as you do not know now. God
does not guide because He can share only perfect knowledge.
Guidance is evaluative because it implies that there is
a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and
the other to be avoided. By choosing one, you give up
the other.
This is
a conflict state. It means that knowledge has been lost
because knowledge is sure. God is not in you in a literal
sense; you are part of Him. When you chose to leave Him,
He gave you a Voice to speak for Him because He could
no longer share His knowledge with you without hindrance.
Direct communication was broken because you had made another
voice through another will.
The Holy
Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget.
You have
chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites
are possible. As a result, there are choices which you
must make. In the holy state, the will is free in the
sense that its creative power is unlimited, but choice
itself is meaningless.
Freedom
to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but
its application is different. Choosing means divided will.
The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. This way is in
you because there is also another way. God did not leave
His Children comfortless, even though they chose to leave
Him. The voice they put in their minds was not the voice
of His Will for which the Holy Spirit speaks. The call
to return is stronger than the call to depart, but it
speaks in a different way.
The Voice
of the Holy Spirit does not command because it is incapable
of arrogance. It does not demand because it does not seek
control. It does not overcome because it does not attack.
It merely reminds. It is compelling only because of what
it reminds you of. It brings to your mind the other way,
remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you have
made for yourselves. The Voice for God is always quiet
because it speaks of peace. Yet peace is stronger than
war because it heals. War is division, not increase. No
one gains from strife.
"What
profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose
his own Soul?" Matthew
16:26
That means
that if he listens to the wrong voice, he has lost sight
of his Soul. He cannot lose it, but he can not know it.
It is therefore lost to him until he chooses right. The
Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. He is the part
of your mind which always speaks for the right choice
because He speaks for God. He is your remaining communication
with God, which you can interrupt but cannot destroy.
The Holy
Spirit is the way in which God's Will can be done on earth
as it is in Heaven. Both Heaven and earth are in you because
the call of both is in your will and therefore in your
mind. The Voice for God comes from your own altars to
Him. These altars are not things; they are devotions.
Yet you have other devotions now. Your divided devotion
has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which
altar you will to serve. The call you answer now is an
evaluation because it is a decision. The decision itself
is very simple. It is made on the basis of which call
is worth more to you.
My mind
will always be like yours because we were created as
equals.
It was only
my decision that gave me all power in Heaven and earth.
My only gift to you is to help you make the same decision
for yourself. The will for this decision is the will to
share it because the decision itself is the decision to
share. It is made by giving and is therefore the one act
of mind that resembles true creation. You understand the
role of "models" in the learning process and
the importance of the models you value and choose to follow
in determining what you will to learn. I am your model
for decision. By deciding for God, I showed you that this
decision can be made and that you can make it.
I promised
you that the mind that made the decision for me is also
in you and that you can let it change you just as it changed
me. This mind is unequivocal because it hears only one
voice and answers in only one way. You are the light of
the world with me. Rest does not come from sleeping but
from waking. The Holy Spirit is the call to awake and
be glad. The world is very tired because it is the idea
of weariness. Our task is the joyous one of waking it
to the Call for God. Everyone will answer the Call of
the Holy Spirit, or the Sonship cannot be as one. What
better vocation could there be for any part of the Kingdom
than to restore it to the perfect integration that can
make it whole?
Hear only
this through the Holy Spirit within you, and teach your
brothers to listen as I am teaching you. When you are
tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how
to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger.
As we share this goal we increase its power to attract
the whole Sonship and to bring it back into the Oneness
in which it was created. Remember
that "yoke" means "join together"
and "burden" means "message."
Let us reconsider
the Biblical statement,
"My
yoke is easy and my burden light" Matthew
11:30 in this way:
"Let us join together, for my message is light."
I came into
your minds because you had grown vaguely aware of the
fact that there is another way or another Voice. Having
given this invitation to the Holy Spirit, I could come
to provide the model for how to think. Psychology has
become the study of behavior, but no one denies the basic
law that behavior is a response to motivation, and motivation
is will.
I have enjoined
you to behave as I behaved, but we must respond to the
same mind to do this. This mind is the Holy Spirit, whose
will is for God always. He teaches you how to keep me
as the model for your thought and to behave like me as
a result. The power of our joint motivation is beyond
belief but not beyond accomplishment. What we can accomplish
together has no limits because the Call for God is the
call to the unlimited.
Child
of God, my message is for you to hear and give away
as you answer the Holy Spirit within you.
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