Hi,
I'm Teresa Hubbard.
Welcome back to our continued reading of the text,
Two Accords and Miracles.
We continue today in Chapter 10,
The Idols of Sickness,
Section 1,
At Home in God.
To summarize my takeaways,
In Section 1 of Chapter 10 we learn that the Law of Creation is that we love our creations as ourselves because they are part of us.
Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe because the laws of God protect it by His love.
We are at home in God,
Dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.
We do not remember being awake,
But when we hear the Holy Spirit we feel better because loving then seems possible to us even though we do not remember that it once was so.
It is in this remembering that we will know it can be so again.
We will remember everything the instant we desire it fully,
Willing away the separation and returning our mind simultaneously to our Creator and our creations.
Then we will have no wish to sleep,
But only the desire to waken and be glad.
Dreams will then be impossible because we will want only truth and being at last our will,
It will be so.
I invite you to keep a few things in mind as you listen to the reading.
The course uses male pronouns,
Yet this is simply a way of pointing to the spiritual being,
Having no gender.
The course is written in first person and although not introduced directly to the reader,
It becomes clear that the words are from Jesus,
Often quoting from the Bible.
The course uses traditional Christian terms in a non-traditional manner.
These words are simply pointers to truth,
Nothing more.
A few terms you will hear within this reading.
Reality,
Pure spirit,
Which is changeless,
Eternal,
Formless and boundless.
Reality is also referred to in the course as heaven or the kingdom of God.
God,
The Creator,
The source of all being or life.
God's essence is spirit,
Which is shared with all creation.
Yet the word God can be limiting,
Since universal energy and life are infinitely vast and cannot be contained in a word.
Holy Spirit,
The communication link between God and us,
Bridging the gap between the mind of Christ and our human minds.
Through this bridge our worldly perception of sin,
Guilt and fear is transformed into the reality of love and forgiveness.
Creation,
The extension of God's being or spirit.
We are creators created in the likeness of our Creator and our creations are either true,
Sourced from love or untrue,
Sourced from fear.
And now,
On to the reading.
A Course in Miracles Chapter 10 The Idols of Sickness Section 1 At Home in God You do not know your creations simply because you would decide against them as long as your mind is split and to attack what you have created is impossible.
But remember that it is as impossible for God.
The law of creation is that you love your creations as yourself because they are part of you.
Everything that was created is therefore perfectly safe because the laws of God protect it by His love.
Any part of your mind that does not know this has banished itself from knowledge because it has not met its conditions.
Who could have done this but you?
Recognize this gladly for in this recognition lies the realization that your banishment is not of God and therefore does not exist.
You are at home in God,
Dreaming of exile,
But perfectly capable of awakening to reality.
Is it your decision to do so?
You recognize from your own experience that what you see in dreams you think is real while you are asleep.
Yet the instant you waken you realize that everything that seemed to happen in the dream did not happen at all.
You do not think this strange even though all the laws of what you awakened to were violated while you slept.
Is it not possible that you merely shifted from one dream to another without really waking?
Would you bother to reconcile what happened in conflicting dreams?
Or would you dismiss both together if you discovered that reality is in accord with neither?
You do not remember being awake.
When you hear the Holy Spirit you may feel better because loving then seems possible to you,
But you do not remember yet that it once was so.
And it is in this remembering that you will know it can be so again.
What is possible has not yet been accomplished,
Yet what has once been is so now,
If it is eternal.
When you remember you will know that what you remember is eternal and therefore is now.
You will remember everything the instant you desire it holy,
For if to desire holy is to create you will have willed away the separation,
Returning your mind simultaneously to your Creator in your creations.
Knowing them you will have no wish to sleep,
But only the desire to waken and be glad.
Dreams will be impossible because you will want only truth,
And being at last your will it will be yours.
