Welcome to Active Meditation.
The Course in Miracles,
Lesson 76.
I am under no laws but Gods.
We have observed before how many senseless things have seemed to you to be salvation.
Each has imprisoned you with laws as senseless as itself.
You are not bound by them,
Yet to understand that this is so,
You must first realize salvation lies not there.
While you would seek for it in things that have no meaning,
You bind yourself to laws that make no sense.
Thus,
Who you seek to prove salvation is where it is not.
Today we will be glad you cannot prove it.
Or if you could,
You would forever seek salvation where it is not.
And never find it.
The idea for today tells you once again how simple is salvation.
Look for it where it waits for you,
And there it will be found.
Look nowhere else,
For it is nowhere else.
Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you.
You really think that you would starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs.
You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease and death.
You really think you are alone unless another body is with you.
It is insanity that thinks these things.
You call them laws and put them under different names.
In a long catalog of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose.
You think you must obey the laws of medicine,
Of economics,
And of health.
Select the body and you will be saved.
These are not laws,
But madness.
The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself.
The body suffers,
Just in order that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of itself.
The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up.
To hide what really suffers,
It would not understand it is its own enemy.
That it attacks itself and wants to die.
It is from this your laws would save the body.
It is for this you think you are a body.
There are no laws except the laws of God.
This needs repeating over and over.
Until you realize it applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God's will.
Let's practice.
Remind yourself that the laws of the ego,
Money,
Power,
Health,
Social interactions are created by the ego to protect the body,
Our vehicle on the physical plane.
We want to keep our body as healthy as possible.
Eat the right food,
Use the healthcare system when appropriate,
Earn enough money to survive and live a productive life.
These however are not laws,
They are the ego's prescribed protections for the physical body.
So as we recognize the ego's protections for the body,
We acknowledge there are no laws except the laws of God.
Repeat this several times.
There are no laws except the laws of God.
There are no laws except the laws of God.
Your magic has no meaning.
What it is meant to save does not exist.
Only what it is meant to hide will save you.
The laws of God can never be replaced.
We will devote today to rejoicing that this is so.
It is no longer a truth that we would hide,
We realize instead it is a truth that keeps us free forever.
Magic imprisons that the laws of God make free.
The light has come because there are no laws but God's.
We will begin the longer practice periods today with a short review of the different kinds of laws.
We have believed we must obey.
These would include,
For example,
The laws of nutrition,
Of immunization,
Of medication,
And of the body's protection in innumerable ways.
Moving further,
You believe in the laws of friendship,
Of good relationships,
And reciprocity.
Perhaps you even think that there are laws which set forth what is God's and what is yours.
Many religions have been based on this.
They would not save,
But damn in heaven's name.
Yet they are no more strange than other laws you hold must be obeyed to make you safe.
There are no laws but God's,
Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today and hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the voice that speaks the truth to you.
You will be listening to one who says there is no loss under the laws of God.
Payment is neither given nor received.
Exchange cannot be made.
There are no substitutes,
And nothing is replaced by something else.
God's laws forever give and never take.
Hear the one who tells you this and realize how foolish are the laws you thought upheld the world you thought you saw.
Then,
Listen further.
God will tell you more about the love God has for you,
About the endless joy God offers you,
About God's yearning for God's child,
Created as a channel for creation,
Denied to God by the child's belief in hell.
Let us today open God's channels and let God's will extend through us to God.
Thus is creation endlessly increased.
God's voice will speak of this to us,
As well as the joys of heaven,
Which God's laws keep limitless forever.
Let's practice again.
Listen in silent readiness to hear the voice that speaks the truth.
Open God's channels.
Let God's will extend through us.
Listen for the one who says there is no loss under the laws of God.
God's laws forever give and never take.
Watt Lithuania We will repeat today's idea.
Until we have listened and understood there are no laws but gods.
Then we will tell ourselves as a dedication with which the practice period concludes,
I am under no laws but gods.
We will repeat this dedication as often as possible today,
At least four or five times an hour.
As well as in response to any temptation to experience ourselves as subject to other laws throughout the day.
It is our statement of freedom from all danger and all tyranny.
It is our acknowledgement that God is our true parent and that God's child is saved.
There are no laws except the laws of God.
I am under no laws but gods.
There are no laws except the laws of God.
I am under no laws but gods.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
