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Chapter 5 - Healing and Wholeness Voice
For God The Atonement and the separation began at the same time. When man made the ego, God placed in him the call to joy. This call is so strong that the ego always dissolves at its sound. That is why you can choose to listen to two voices within you. One you made yourself, and that one is not of God. But the other is given you by God, Who asks you only to listen to it. The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before, and will be again. 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.
His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own. Guide For Choosing 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.
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.
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
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.
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A Course in Miracles - Original Edition
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 “yolk” means “join together” and “burden” means message. Let us reconsider the Biblical statement “my yolk 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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