A Course in Miracles Lesson 169

Lesson 169 A Course in Miracles

I find this lesson to be very difficult to understand and at the same time very easy. I have had the desire to comment on all of the lessons and all ACIM from what is in my mind when i read them now. I am not tooting my horn, but I have been a student and a teacher for ACIM since 1983. When I read the lessons now or the text I am inspired or my mind is filled with thoughts that are not what I ordinarily think. I know it is coming from a plane of intution.

The Thought as occured to me to comment on these passages and to bring more clarity of mind into the present time of what meanings these lessons give to me.

By grace I live. By grace I am released.

Grace is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. It is the world's most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. It is past learning, yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance. Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift.

Grace has for me been a gift of extraordinary proportions which as allowed me to go beyond anything that I have tried to do on my own. It has been the support of the universe. No matter how many time I have seemed to fall and unable to get up by my self, meaning mortal means, Grace has lifted me beyond any thing I could of imagined. "There but for the grace of God go I."

Grace has taken me places or has transported me beyond time and space. I envision grace as the "many called to the one." As each of us conspire to join together with each other as one and as we breathe together we give the energy of the universe, the grand Harmony in which all is transpired, to each other individually and on a collective scale. It reminds me of the thought that the Whole is greater then the sum total of its parts.

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Grace is not learned. The final step must go beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God's Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home.

We have perhaps appeared to contradict our statement that the revelation of the Father and the Son as One has been already set. But we have also said the mind determines when that time will be, and has determined it. And yet we urge you to bear witness to the Word of God to hasten the experience of truth, and speed its advent into every mind that recognizes truth's effects on you.

What I see here is time and eternity, where eternity is already set and at the same time accomplished. Time is where we have yet to make the decision, for eternity that has already been decided. These are two different time frames.

I get a feel of what time travel is all about from these statements or interplanetary or galactic time travel is all about. One you are already there experiencing yourself coming home where everything is there awaiting you when you thought you left.

It would be like a time traveler or just a traveler from another planet who got lost in time and forgot who he really was, this superbeing that was able to travel in time and forgot who he was and where he was. When in an instant, the memory came back to him and at the same time returns to the place he never left, as if in a dream and came back to realize that he never left and that he only left in a time sense and returned in a eternal sense.

Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say "God is," and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

We cannot speak nor write nor even think of this at all. It comes to every mind when total recognition that its will is God's has been completely given and received completely. It returns the mind into the endless present, where the past and future cannot be conceived. It lies beyond salvation; past all thought of time, forgiveness and the holy face of Christ. The Son of God has merely disappeared into his Father, as his Father has in him. The world has never been at all. Eternity remains a constant state.

2012 is a star date where we will have a galactic experience being one with the universe, but the truth does remain that in eternity we are already one with the universe and there is no time or need to accomplish what has already been set and done.

In time for us to reach eternity would be the same as how much light would it take for us to reach the farthest star traveling at the speed of light is how much energy we would all need to expend or extend to one another to realize our goal of complete oneness even though we are one now and that energy is called grace or epigenisis.

It is the whole momentum of the universe in cosmic movement of time. So let you light shine without limit and you will experience what is the unlimitable.

All of you Holy Instants will return on to you as one and that one Holy Instant will be an eternity for you to remember. yes, every Holy instant you have ever experienced will return to you as you step into eternity. Now you see these instants as moments to cherish, but wait until all of the instants that have been stored and saved in your right mind will again appear as one with all of that which is one and that will be for you what is called the feast of perfection which is right now, your birth right to be experiencing with each other and all that is.

This is beyond experience we try to hasten. Yet forgiveness, taught and learned, brings with it the experiences which bear witness that the time the mind itself determined to abandon all but this is now at hand. We do not hasten it, in that what you will offer was concealed from Him Who teaches what forgiveness means.

All learning was already in His Mind, accomplished and complete. He recognized all that time holds, and gave it to all minds that each one might determine, from a point where time was ended, when it is released to revelation and eternity. We have repeated several times before that you but make a journey that is done.

Yes, we must not forget, we make a journey that is done because we are going back home to where we belong and where we really all are and when we arrive we will meet each other and greet each other as brother and sister who thought we were on a long long journey, but never really left at all and we will smile with a smile of eternity and we will laugh with a laugh of eternity. All that we ever knew before we thought we left will come back to us as if we never forgot we knew.

For oneness must be here. Whatever time the mind has set for revelation is entirely irrelevant to what must be a constant state, forever as it always was; forever to remain as it is now. We merely take the part assigned long since, and fully recognized as perfectly fulfilled by Him Who wrote salvation's script in His Creator's Name, and in the Name of His Creator's Son.

There is no need to further clarify what no one in the world can understand. When revelation of your oneness comes, it will be known and fully understood. Now we have work to do, for those in time can speak of things beyond, and listen to words which explain what is to come is past already. Yet what meaning can the words convey to those who count the hours still, and rise and work and go to sleep by them?

Suffice it, then, that you have work to do to play your part. The ending must remain obscure to you until your part is done. It does not matter. For your part is still what all the rest depends on. As you take the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God.

Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation, holding all its parts in meaningful relationships, the course it runs directed and its outcome sure. And now we ask for grace, the final gift salvation can bestow. Experience that grace provides will end in time, for grace foreshadows Heaven, yet does not replace the thought of time but for a little while.

The interval suffices. It is here that miracles are laid; to be returned by you from holy instants you receive, through grace in your experience, to all who see the light that lingers in your face. What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world? How could you finally attain to it forever, while a part of you remains outside, unknowing, unawakened, and in need of you as witness to the truth?

Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you. You carry them back to yourself. And revelation stands not far behind. Its coming is ensured. We ask for grace, and for experience that comes from grace. We welcome the release it offers everyone. We do not ask for the unaskable. We do not look beyond what grace can give. For this we can give in the grace that has been given us.

Our learning goal today does not exceed this prayer. Yet in the world, what could be more than what we ask this day of Him Who gives the grace we ask, as it was given Him?

By grace I live. By grace I am released.

By grace I give. By grace I will release.

May I suggest if you so desire to use your breath as a means of intent when you do the lesson for the day. What I mean by that is when I do the lesson I use a set of Tibetan beads to keep track of my remembrances as a say the lesson over and over with intent and meaning. I say for example, with first a prayer to Spirit of God to help me invoke what these lessons mean and their experience and to give these words over to the spirit with pure intent that they may be used by Spirit as He see fit.

I then very slowly as I breathe with my mouth closed, through the nose on the in breath say, "By grace, out breath, I live." on the in breath, "By grace,out breath, I am released." On the in breath, "By grace, out breath, I give." In breath, "By grace, out breath, I will be released."

Now leave a space between breaths or pause so that the spirit can speak to you or bring revelation to your mind. Be in the space between you breaths as you let it in and let it out. If you have reached within to that place of silence or stillness and you can focus your attention there then do so and if you leave for a moment use your breath to bring you there again. Dismiss any thoughts you may have wondering in the outer mind and that does not come from stillness as you do the mantra or the remembrance or if you like the Thought of God.

For me I spend or dwell there in that silence or stillness repeating the lesson using my breath for about an hr and sometime more. It is a wonderful way to spend in meditation and is only a suggestion if you are inspired or have another way to reach the silence within or to prepare your mind to receive revelation or higher communication with the one Mind then do so. Happy Journeying.

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You are neither behind the point of perfection nor are you advancing toward it. You are at the point of perfection and it is from there you must understand your self from.

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Namaste The Divinity in me greets the Divinity in you.