How
can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in
you except by His effects? You cannot see Him with your
eyes, nor hear Him with your ears.
How,
then, can you perceive Him at all?
If you inspire joy, and others react to you with joy,
even though you are not experiencing joy yourself, there
must be something in you that is capable of producing
it. If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see
that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating
it in yourself.
It
seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy
consistently in you only because you do not consistently
arouse joy in others. Their reactions to you are your
evaluations of His consistency. When you are inconsistent
you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will
not always recognize His consistency. What you offer to
your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond
your offering in His giving. This is not because He limits
His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving.
The will to receive is the will to accept.
If your brothers are part of you, will you accept them?
Only they can teach you what you are, and your learning
is the result of what you taught them. What you call upon
in them you call upon in yourself. And as you call upon
it in them it becomes real to you. God has but one Son,
knowing them all as one. Only God Himself is
more
than they, but they are not less than He is. Would you
know what this means? If what you do to my brother you
do to me, and if you do everything for yourself because
we are part of you, everything we do belongs to you as
well. Every Soul God created is part of you, and shares
His glory with you. His Glory belongs to Him, but it is
equally yours. You cannot, then, be less glorious than
He is.
God
is more than you only because He created you, but not
even this would He keep from you. Therefore you can create
as He did, and your dissociation will not alter this.
Neither God’s Light nor yours is dimmed because
you do not see. Because the Sonship must create as one,
you remember creation whenever you recognize part of creation.
Each part you remember adds to your wholeness because
each part is whole. Wholeness is indivisible, but you
cannot learn of your wholeness until you see it everywhere.
You
can know yourself only as God knows His Son, for knowledge
is shared with God. When You awake in Him you will know
your magnitude by accepting His limitlessness as yours,
but meanwhile you will judge it as you judge your brothers’,
and will accept it as you accept theirs.
You are not yet awake, but you can learn how to awaken.
Very simply the Holy Spirit teaches you to awaken others.
As you see them waken you will learn what waking means,
and because you have willed to wake them, their gratitude
and their appreciation of what you have given them will
teach you its value. They will become the witnesses to
your reality, as you were created witnesses to God’s.
Yet when the Sonship comes together and accepts its oneness,
it will be known by its creations, who witness to its
reality as the Son does to the Father.
Miracles
have no place in eternity because they are reparative.
Yet while you still need healing, your miracles are the
only witnesses to your reality which you can recognize.
You cannot perform a miracle for yourself because miracles
are a way of giving acceptance and receiving it. In time
the giving comes first, though they are simultaneous in
eternity, where they cannot be separated. When you have
learned that they are the same, the need for time is over.
Eternity is one time, its only dimension being “always.”
This cannot mean anything to you, however, until you remember
God’s open arms and finally know His open Mind.
Like Him, you are “always,” in His Mind and
with a mind like His. In your open mind are your creations,
in perfect communication born of perfect understanding.
Could you but accept one of them, you would not want anything
the world has to offer. Everything else would be totally
meaningless.
God’s
meaning is incomplete without you, and you are incomplete
without your creations. Accept your brother in this world
and accept nothing else, for in him you will find your
creations because he created them with you. You will never
know that you are co-creator with God until you learn
that your brother is a co-creator with you.