August 9, 2025 • 55 mins
Part II
Introduction
Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.Now we attempt to let the exercise be merely a beginning. For we wait in quiet expectation for our God and Father. He has promised He will take the final step Himself. And we are sure His promises are kept. We have come far along the road, and now we wait for Him. We will continue spending time with Him each morning and at night, as long as makes us happy. We will not consider time a matter of duration now. We use as much as we will need for the result that we desire. Nor will we forget our hourly remembrance in between, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal.We will continue with a central thought for all the days to come, and we will use that thought to introduce our times of rest, and calm our minds at need. Yet we will not content ourselves with simple practicing in the remaining holy instants which conclude the year that we have given God. We say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself, as He has promised. We have called on Him, and He has promised that His Son will not remain unanswered when he calls His Name.Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take when we invited him. He has not left His Son in all his madness, nor betrayed His trust in Him. Has not His faithfulness earned Him the invitation that He seeks to make us happy? We will offer it, and it will be accepted. So our times with Him will now be spent. We say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us.Now is the time of prophecy fulfilled. Now are all ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains for time to separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will.I am so close to you we cannot fail. Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we know that You will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. We will with You in asking this. The Father and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You.And so we start upon the final part of this one holy year, which we have spent together in the search for truth and God, Who is its one Creator. We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has held us up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.We had a wish that God would fail to have the Son whom He created for Himself. We wanted God to change Himself, and be what we would make of Him. And we believed that our insane desires were the truth. Now we are glad that this is all undone, and we no longer think illusions true. The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons of our minds. A moment more, and it will rise again. A moment more, and we who are God’s Sons are safely home, where He would have us be.Now is the need for practice almost done. For in this final section, we will come to understand that we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. We will accept the way God’s plan will end, as we received the way it started. Now it is complete. This year has brought us to eternity.One further use for words we still retain. From time to time, instructions on a theme of special relevance will intersperse our daily lessons and the periods of wordless, deep experience which
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Speaker 8 (03:26):
Okay. Welcome, everyone will be useful here in the studio.
We're in the Healing Center. Hi Joe, thank you, thank you.
Welcome to this this Lesson of the Day gathering where
we're going to practice the Lesson of the day. And
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today we are entering the Lincoln scho Lessons to twenty
one to two two three sixty five. Okay, so it
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is actually the introduction. I'm going to read. The whole
thing starts with words will mean little now, and yet
we're gonna read a lot of words today, but the
so don't give too much meaning to them. But you
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will notice as we read through this and we read
the Lesson of the Day, and we read what is forgiveness?
That that actually the whole thing that we're going to
read is an invitation to UH, to peace, to the
peace of God to come to you. God is gonna
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take the last step. And but you you're invited to
UH to prepare your mind for that occurrence. And so
it is an invitation to an experience. And so we're
not gonna talk about a lot about it. We're just
going to enter into the experience of what is being offered,
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extending the invitation to God. It's everything, Okay, Uh, we're
extending the invitation and we are just waiting for God
to respond. That's what we're gonna do. Okay, let's see,
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let's do this. Words will mean little now we use them,
but as guides on which we now we use them,
but as guides on which we do not now depend.
For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The
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lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in
which we leave the world of pain and go to
enter peace. Can everybody understand here correctly? Looking at the
Spanish guys, they're working it out. Are you working at okay? Okay,
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it doesn't matter. The words don't matter at all the
lessons that remain are merely in introductions to the times
in which we leave the world of pain and go
to enter peace. Now we begin to reach the goal
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this course has set, and find the end toward which
our practicing was always geared. Now we attempt to let
the exercise be merely a beginning, for we wait in
quiet expectation for our God and Father. He has promised
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he will take the final step himself, and we are
sure his promises are kept. We have come far along
the road, and now we wait for him. We will
continue spending time with him each morning and at night
as long as makes us happy. We will not consider
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time and matter of duration. Now we use as much
as we will need for the result that we desire.
Nor will will we forget our hourly remembrance in between
calling to God when we have need of him, as
we are tempted to forget our goal. We will continue
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with a central thought for all the days to come,
and we will use that thought to introduce our times
of rest and calm our minds at need. So that's
the only purpose of the practice that we do. We're
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not trying to gain some conceptual understanding of what we're reading,
we're only entering into the experience of peace. Yet we
will need Yet, we will not content ourselves with simple
prec In the remaining holy instance, which conclude the year
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that we have given God, we say some simple words
of welcome, and expect our father to reveal himself as
he has promised. We have called on him, and he
has promised that his son will not remain unanswered when
he calls his name. Now do we come to him
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with but his word upon our minds and hearts, and
wait for him to take the final step to us
that he has told us through his voice he would
not fail to take when we invited him. He has
not left his son in all his madness, nor betrayed
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his trust in him. Has not his faithfulness earned him
the invitation that he seeks to make us happy. We
will offer it. We will offer the invitation and it
will be accepted. So, but we have to make the invitation.
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It can't accept God to make the step if you
don't invite him in so our times with him will
now be so. Our times with him will now be spent.
We say the words of invitation that his voice suggests,
and then we wait for him to come to us.
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Now is the time of prophecy fulfilled. Now are all
ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains from
time to separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail.
Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has will
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to come to you. When you have recognized it is
your will, he do so, and you could never You
could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly,
that it is your will. I am so close to you,
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we cannot fail. Father. We give. We give these holy
times to you in gratitude to him who taught us
how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for
its replacement given us by you. We look not backward.
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Now we look ahead and fix our eyes upon the
journey's end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us,
as through Christ's vision we behold a world beyond the
one we made, and take that world to be the
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full replacement of our own. And now we wait in silence,
unafraid and certain of your coming. We have sought to
find our way by following the guide you sent to us.
We did not know the way, but you did not
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forget us, and we know that you will not forget us.
Now we ask but that your ancient promises be kept,
which are your will to keep. I could read that better.
We ask, but that your ancient promises be kept, which
are your will to keep. We will with you in asking.
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We will with you in asking this. So we share
that will the Father and the Son, whose holy will
created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty,
we undertake these last few steps to you and rest
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in confidence upon your love, which will not fail the
sun who calls to you. And so we start upon
the final part of this one holy year which we
have spent together in the search for truth and God,
who is its one creator. We have found the way
(13:39):
He chose for us, and made the choice to follow
it as he would have us go. His hand has
held us up, his thoughts have lit the darkness of
our minds. His love has called to us unceasingly since
time begins. We had a wish that God would fail
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to have the son whom he created for himself. We
wanted God to change himself and be what we would
make of him. And we believe that our insane desires
were the truth. Now we are glad that this is
all undone, and we no longer think illusions are true.
(14:27):
The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons
of our minds. A moment more, and it will rise
again a moment more, and we who are god sons,
are safely home where He would have us be. Now
is the need for practice almost done. For in this
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final section we will come to understand that we need
only to call to God and all temptations disappear. Instead
of words, we need but feel his love. Instead of prayers,
we need but call his name. Instead of judging, we
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need but be still and let all things be healed.
We will accept the way God's plan will end as
we receive the way it started. Now it is complete.
This year has brought us to eternity. One further use
(15:32):
for words we still retain. From time to time. Instructions
on a theme of special relevance will intersperse our daily
lessons and the periods of wordless deep experience which should
come afterwards. These special thoughts should be reviewed each day,
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each one of them to be continued till the next
is given you. They should be slowly read and thought
about a little while preceding one of the holy and
blessed instants in the day. We give the first of
these instructions now and so, but before we do that,
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we will just take a moment before we enter into
this first uh special thought that is going to be
given it to us every day for the next Uh
what is it ten days? I think it's ten, isn't it? Yeah,
it's ten days. And that is what is forgiveness. And
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we're gonna we're gonna read it in a second.
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In no more dreaming, just fly, no more we being
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just cladding.
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And it's clear, it's clean, and.
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I know.
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Where dream.
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Go where it's clear.
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We no more searching, just by, no more reaching, just shine.
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Ny and it's clean. It's clean.
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No where.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
To go.
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Where it's clean. Nor more dream.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Just blood, no more bad.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
All right, thank you. So we're going to read what
is forgiveness? And before I do that, it's interesting that, uh,
the idea of forgiveness. I was reminded of this the
other day when I r uh read uh lesson one
I eight. Uh that is the lesson that is called
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is it? Uh, only my columination injures me, Am I right?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
That?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
No, Yeah, only my coldumination injures me. And it's the
lesson where it says that illusion that uh forgiveness is
illusion that is answer to the rest. And in that
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lesson one I eight, what is addressed is the impulsibility
of injury. And what is addressed is the impulsibility of injury.
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And I think it's the The other one is condemnation.
Injury and condemnation are both impossible. There are both illusions.
And the great thing about Lession one ninety eight is
that it says that illusions make illusions. The idea of
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an illusion, it's interesting earh okay and the Q. The
question is what is an illusion?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
And there's a sentence that I read the other day.
It's in chapter sixteen. It says, illusion is a belief
in something that is not there. It's something that you
believe is there but it's not. That's what an illusion is.
We talk about this because we're a courser miracle students
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and courser miracles teachers, and we t eat the illusions
as something that is something we have the truth and
the illusion, and the truth is an illusion is an
illusion because it's a belief in something that is not there.
It's not something you cannot say, well, that's an illusion. No,
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it's an illusion because you believe in it. You believe
that it's true, and the truth is it is not.
But okay, well, I'm just elaborating a little bit, you know,
because it's good to think about these things, because to
recognize and we're going to read, uh, what is forgiveness
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when it says when he says, forgiveness is for an
illusion that is answered to the rest, It is not
answering something that is true. It is not something that
there is There is nothing to forgive. It is not
that there is something that needs to be forgiven for
you to It is an illusion. Forgiveness is an illusion.
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M let me see if I can bring this in. Yeah, so, yeah,
I don't. I I'm I'm l I'm losing my train
of thought here. But I wanted to say this as
an a introduction, uh, because.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it it it's uh, okay, let's let's
just read this through.
Speaker 8 (25:44):
And we'll we'll, i'll, I'll come back to it. What
is forgiveness? Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did
to you has not occurred. It does no part in
sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin,
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and in that view, are all your sins forgiven? What
is sin except the false idea about God's son. Forgiveness
merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. Well,
then is free to take the pl its place is
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now the will of God? And okay, maybe there's one
thing I would say about it. Of course, of course,
Americas is filled with the idea that you're doing this
to yourself, that this that there is really nothing being
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done to you. Injury. As I just said, injury is impossible.
Condemnation is impulsible, but illusions produce illusions. Why is that
because you? That's what it says in eight. If you
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think that you can condemn, the right to condemn is
also how did you say it? I have to go
I have to go back to this for a second.
If you don't mind, it says here injuries impulsible, and
yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn, you can
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be injured, for you have believed that you can injure,
and the right you have established, and the right you
have established for yourself can now be used against you.
This is the mechanism of the singularity of your mind.
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You think that if you say, oh, It's all an illusion.
But the illusion is not something static. It produces effects.
Illusion makes illusion, it makes another illusion. If you believe
in something that is not true, it you you have
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believed that you can injure, and the right you have
established for yourself can now be used against you. This
is what occurs. So if you attack, or if you
feel attacked, or if something happens to you, you think, well,
that's done to me, and you talk about it as
if you're being hurt and if the world is doing
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all this stuff to you. What you don't recognize is
that injury is not possible. Why because you cannot sin,
You cannot, you cannot condemn, and the right and it
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because you believe that you can. The right that you
have established for yourself can now be used against you.
This is why you're doing everything to yourself. And that
shift in responsibility where you say, okay, this is not
done to me, I am doing this, I have done this. Uh,
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what is the what is the the miracle thing? Uh?
Reflects the simple statement I have done this thing, and
it is this I would undo When we say you
need to accept begin to accept responsibility for your own thoughts.
This is why It's not just because we want you
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to be guilty for what you think. It is because
we want you to begin to recognize that the power that.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
You actually have and are, because you are what as
God created you, that's the truth of you, is not
a sort of a sort of nice spiritual thing to say.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
You are as God created you. And when you come
into this frame of reference, you may say, Okay, I
have forgotten for a moment who I was, But now
we have this course of miracles and you're going to remember.
And part of that remembering is that you are beginning
to recognize, Holy I am responsible for everything I see.
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I'm belaboring this because in these sort of the ideas,
the whole thing comes together and the purpose of a
course of miracles begins to make more sense to you.
It's just it's not just a spiritual book that has
nice ideas that you can play around with. It offers
you an entirety of the possibility of experience where forgiveness
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really becomes something that you want to perform, where you
really begin to see I am I'm not forgiving someone else.
I'm forgiving myself for what didn't happen. I was the
one who thought I could be attacked, I cannot be attacked.
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I have established the right to be attacked by attacking
someone else or thinking that what did he say? Injuries impossible?
And yet illusion makes illusion, and forgiveness now becomes answer
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to the rest, not because there is something to forgive,
but only because you were wrong about what happened to
you and what you did to someone else. And this
is what the forgiveness of. This is what he says
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here in the first and I'm going to read the
whole thing. I won't say anything more. This is where
you see that it begins to make sense that in
this view, all your sins are forgiven. Okay, listen. Forgiveness
recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has
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not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real.
It sees there was no sin, and in that view
are all your sins forgiven because you were the cause
of them. What is sin except the false idea about
God's son. Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets
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it go. What then is free to take its place
is now the will of God, an unforgiving thought. And
you can rest assured that's every thought you think you have.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that
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it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.
The mind is closed and will not be released. The
thought protects projection, tightening its chains so that distortions are
more veiled and more obscure, less easily accessible to doubt,
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and further kept from reason. What can come between a
fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as
it's wanted goal. An unforgiving thought does many things in
frantic action. It pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what
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it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is
its poor purpose and the means by which it would
accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts
to smash reality without concern for anything that would appear
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to pose a contradiction to its point of view. Forgiveness,
on the other hand, is still and quietly does nothing.
It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist
it two appearances it likes. It doesn't have to do that.
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It can just stay where it is. It doesn't have
to defend itself. It doesn't have to judge anything it
is illusion that its answer to the rest. It doesn't
have to twist the two appearances it likes. It merely
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looks and waits and judges. Not he who would not
forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.
But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome
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truth exactly as it is. Right now, I seem to
be talking to you all the time because you're the
new guy in the room. Thank you. The other ones
already know all this. So do you. But do nothing then,
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and let forgiveness show you what to do. Do nothing, then,
forgiveness show you what to do. Through him who is
your guide, your savior and protector, strong in hope, and
certain of your ultimate success, He has forgiven you already,
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for such is his function given him by God. Now
must you share his function and forgive whom he has saved,
whose sinlessness he sees, and whom he honors as the
son of God. And so will take a moment to
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reflect on this, as we have been instructed to do.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
So. But at.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Okay, so maybe it becomes valuable to you that we
just read that He has forgiven you already, that you
have forgiven that you have been forgiven and that you
can now share this forgiveness with everything around you, and
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that you can begin to really experience the truth of yourself,
because this is what this course is aiming at. At
some point we just have to stop dealing with the
with illusions or whatever thinks that we believe are true.
But that experience will come as you perform this act
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of forgiveness, and as you contemplate this idea of what
is forgiveness more and more in the next ten days,
it will begin to have more and more meaning for you.
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Most of us have you known, have memorized part of
this lesson by heart just to be able to you know,
let it sink in more and more. That's not a
bad idea. You cannot hear enough that forgiveness recognizes what
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you thought your brother did to you has not occurred,
and to really think about why that is true. Lessen
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two twenty one. Peace to my mind, Let all my
thoughts be still. Father. I come to you today to
seek the peace that you alone can give. I come
in silence, in the quiet of my heart, the deep
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recesses of my mind. I wait and listen for your voice,
My Father, speak to me today I come to hear
your voice in silence and uncertainty and love. Sure you
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will hear my call and answer me. And now do
we wait in quiet? God is here Because we wait together.
I am sure that he will speak to you, and
you will hear. Accept my confidence, for it is yours
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our minds have joined. We wait with one intent to
hear our father's answer to our call, to let our
thoughts be still and find his peace, to hear him
speak to us of what we are, and to reveal
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himself unto his son, peace to my mind, that all
my thoughts be still. Amen.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Sho sh sh sh.
Speaker 8 (46:53):
All right we go. We have still a few minutes
to go before the video. And UH may read uh,
And I need to read from a little bit from
one thirty four. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Okay,
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let me proceed forgiveness as it is one four. Let
us review the meaning of forgive, for it is apt
to be distorted and to be perceived as something that
entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified
and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In
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such a view, forgiveness must be seen as merely eccentric folly,
and this course appeared to rest salvation on the This
twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected when
you accept the fact that pardon is not asked for
what is true. It must be limited to what is false.
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This is what we were talking about. You're not forgiving anything.
It's an illusion that is answer to the rest of
all the illusions of everything that you believe to be true.
But it is not there. It must be limited to
what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions.
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Truth is God's creation, and to pardon that is meaningless.
Old truth belongs to him, reflects his laws, and radiates
his love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive
the sinless and heally benign? The major difficulty that you
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find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you
still believe you missed. You must forgive the truth. This
is an important notion when you when you think of forgiveness,
you are very quick to think that there is really
something happening and that you need to forgive that. So
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now you're forgiving your mother or your your your husband
or whatever. And that's how you get caught in what
forgiveness is not and it's actually and as you will
say here, it is actually not without effects. If you
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do that, you conceive of pardon as a vain attempt
to look past what is there, to overlook the truth,
to overlook what is act, what you thought happened, and
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that you could you call that forgiveness in an unfounded
effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This
is how you make an illusion true. You believe that
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what is not there is true. This twisted viewpoint but
reflects the hold that the idea of sin retains as
yet upon your mind as you regard yourself, and see
again here this has only to do with you. It
doesn't have anything to do with someone else. That the
idea of sin is still holding and has an idea
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that there's that it's possible that something is being done
to you, or that you are able to do something
else to someone else. Because you think your sins are real.
You think your sins are real. You look on pardon
as deception, for it is impossible to think of sin
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as true and not believe forgiveness is a lie. Thus
is forgiveness really better sin? Like all the rest. It
says the truth is false and smalls smiles on the corrupt,
as if they were blameless as the grass, as white
as snow. It is delusional in what it thinks it
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can accomplish. It would see as right, the plainly wrong,
the loathsome as the good. And if you don't only
have to look in the world. Everybody talks about forgiveness,
and that's the only way they can look at it
is Okay, I've overlooked something. This terrible thing has happened
to me. But I'm overlooking it. I'm forgetting about it.
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That's not what forgiveness is. Pardon is no escape in
such a view, it merely is a further sign that
sin is unforgivable at best. To be concealed, denied, or
called another name for pardon is a treachery to truth.
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This is a great idea, pardoning someone saying, oh, you
did that to me, and now I'm pardoning you. It's
a treachery to truth. When there is guilt, he says
it here. When there's guilt, it cannot be forgiven. If
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you sin, yours guilt is ever lasting. And how about
the guys who are forgiven? From the view their sins
are real, are pitifully mocked and twice condemned, first by
themselves for what they think they did, and once again
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by those who pardon them. So it's really a very
vicious act. It is sins unreality that makes forgiveness natural
and holy, sane, a deep relief to those who offer it,
a quiet blessing where it is received. It doesn't countenance illusions,
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but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently
lays them at the feet of truth. And there they
disappear entirely. Okay, And then there's this sentence, and I
will wrap this up. Forgiveness is the only thing that
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sens stands for truth in the illusions of the world.
It's the only thing that stands for truth in the
illusions of the world. Okay, this last paragraph. It sees
their nothingness and looks straight through the thousand forms in
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which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it
is not deceived. It does not heed the self accusing
shrieks of sinners mad with guilt. It looks on them
with quiet eyes and merely says to them, my brother,
what you think is not the truth. Okay, you may
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read this lesson further if you want. It's really good.
There's a great practice here, and so forgiveness is not
pardoning something that happened that has nothing to do with it.
All right, I want to thank everybody again and you
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guys here, we're gonna watch the video of the massive
teacher in a second. And I love you all and
hope to see you again at this on this incredible channel,
you have been.
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Listening to Voice from Heaven live in the Miracle Healing Center.
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Remember that God's voice speaks to you.
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All through the day, that God goes with you wherever
you go, and that God is the mind with which
you think.
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God bless us everyone,
Come take my I know you're tiger that we come
drive or succeed wy for Wie. Love will be every
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though the scenes will not be.
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For to take.
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Go take my.
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I know what you are?
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You old the candle and I believe the long long
every No.
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It seems we're not give me fucking screting.
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Come take my.
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I know your tag and we.
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Come try and say with the people. Love blow bad people.
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It seems will not be.
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For you.
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Has gone Trot said.
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Let's talk.
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This is.
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Okay. Welcome, everyone will be useful here in the studio.
We're in the Healing Center. Hi Joe, thank you, thank you.
Welcome to this this Lesson of the Day gathering where
we're going to practice the Lesson of the day. And
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today we are entering the Lincoln scho Lessons to twenty
one to two two three sixty five. Okay, so it
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is actually the introduction. I'm going to read. The whole
thing starts with words will mean little now, and yet
we're gonna read a lot of words today, but the
so don't give too much meaning to them. But you
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will notice as we read through this and we read
the Lesson of the Day, and we read what is forgiveness?
That that actually the whole thing that we're going to
read is an invitation to UH, to peace, to the
peace of God to come to you. God is gonna
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take the last step. And but you you're invited to
UH to prepare your mind for that occurrence. And so
it is an invitation to an experience. And so we're
not gonna talk about a lot about it. We're just
going to enter into the experience of what is being offered,
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extending the invitation to God. It's everything, Okay, Uh, we're
extending the invitation and we are just waiting for God
to respond. That's what we're gonna do. Okay, let's see,
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let's do this. Words will mean little now we use them,
but as guides on which we now we use them,
but as guides on which we do not now depend.
For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The
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lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in
which we leave the world of pain and go to
enter peace. Can everybody understand here correctly? Looking at the
Spanish guys, they're working it out. Are you working at okay? Okay,
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it doesn't matter. The words don't matter at all the
lessons that remain are merely in introductions to the times
in which we leave the world of pain and go
to enter peace. Now we begin to reach the goal
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this course has set, and find the end toward which
our practicing was always geared. Now we attempt to let
the exercise be merely a beginning, for we wait in
quiet expectation for our God and Father. He has promised
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he will take the final step himself, and we are
sure his promises are kept. We have come far along
the road, and now we wait for him. We will
continue spending time with him each morning and at night
as long as makes us happy. We will not consider
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time and matter of duration. Now we use as much
as we will need for the result that we desire.
Nor will will we forget our hourly remembrance in between
calling to God when we have need of him, as
we are tempted to forget our goal. We will continue
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with a central thought for all the days to come,
and we will use that thought to introduce our times
of rest and calm our minds at need. So that's
the only purpose of the practice that we do. We're
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not trying to gain some conceptual understanding of what we're reading,
we're only entering into the experience of peace. Yet we
will need Yet, we will not content ourselves with simple
prec In the remaining holy instance, which conclude the year
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that we have given God, we say some simple words
of welcome, and expect our father to reveal himself as
he has promised. We have called on him, and he
has promised that his son will not remain unanswered when
he calls his name. Now do we come to him
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with but his word upon our minds and hearts, and
wait for him to take the final step to us
that he has told us through his voice he would
not fail to take when we invited him. He has
not left his son in all his madness, nor betrayed
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his trust in him. Has not his faithfulness earned him
the invitation that he seeks to make us happy. We
will offer it. We will offer the invitation and it
will be accepted. So, but we have to make the invitation.
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It can't accept God to make the step if you
don't invite him in so our times with him will
now be so. Our times with him will now be spent.
We say the words of invitation that his voice suggests,
and then we wait for him to come to us.
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Now is the time of prophecy fulfilled. Now are all
ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains from
time to separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail.
Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has will
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to come to you. When you have recognized it is
your will, he do so, and you could never You
could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly,
that it is your will. I am so close to you,
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we cannot fail. Father. We give. We give these holy
times to you in gratitude to him who taught us
how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for
its replacement given us by you. We look not backward.
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Now we look ahead and fix our eyes upon the
journey's end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us,
as through Christ's vision we behold a world beyond the
one we made, and take that world to be the
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full replacement of our own. And now we wait in silence,
unafraid and certain of your coming. We have sought to
find our way by following the guide you sent to us.
We did not know the way, but you did not
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forget us, and we know that you will not forget us.
Now we ask but that your ancient promises be kept,
which are your will to keep. I could read that better.
We ask, but that your ancient promises be kept, which
are your will to keep. We will with you in asking.
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We will with you in asking this. So we share
that will the Father and the Son, whose holy will
created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty,
we undertake these last few steps to you and rest
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in confidence upon your love, which will not fail the
sun who calls to you. And so we start upon
the final part of this one holy year which we
have spent together in the search for truth and God,
who is its one creator. We have found the way
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He chose for us, and made the choice to follow
it as he would have us go. His hand has
held us up, his thoughts have lit the darkness of
our minds. His love has called to us unceasingly since
time begins. We had a wish that God would fail
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to have the son whom he created for himself. We
wanted God to change himself and be what we would
make of him. And we believe that our insane desires
were the truth. Now we are glad that this is
all undone, and we no longer think illusions are true.
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The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons
of our minds. A moment more, and it will rise
again a moment more, and we who are god sons,
are safely home where He would have us be. Now
is the need for practice almost done. For in this
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final section we will come to understand that we need
only to call to God and all temptations disappear. Instead
of words, we need but feel his love. Instead of prayers,
we need but call his name. Instead of judging, we
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need but be still and let all things be healed.
We will accept the way God's plan will end as
we receive the way it started. Now it is complete.
This year has brought us to eternity. One further use
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for words we still retain. From time to time. Instructions
on a theme of special relevance will intersperse our daily
lessons and the periods of wordless deep experience which should
come afterwards. These special thoughts should be reviewed each day,
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each one of them to be continued till the next
is given you. They should be slowly read and thought
about a little while preceding one of the holy and
blessed instants in the day. We give the first of
these instructions now and so, but before we do that,
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we will just take a moment before we enter into
this first uh special thought that is going to be
given it to us every day for the next Uh
what is it ten days? I think it's ten, isn't it? Yeah,
it's ten days. And that is what is forgiveness. And
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we're gonna we're gonna read it in a second.
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In no more dreaming, just fly, no more we being
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just cladding.
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And it's clear, it's clean, and.
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I know.
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Where dream.
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Go where it's clear.
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We no more searching, just by, no more reaching, just shine.
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Ny and it's clean. It's clean.
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No where.
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To go.
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Where it's clean. Nor more dream.
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Just blood, no more bad.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
All right, thank you. So we're going to read what
is forgiveness? And before I do that, it's interesting that, uh,
the idea of forgiveness. I was reminded of this the
other day when I r uh read uh lesson one
I eight. Uh that is the lesson that is called
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is it? Uh, only my columination injures me, Am I right?
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That?
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No, Yeah, only my coldumination injures me. And it's the
lesson where it says that illusion that uh forgiveness is
illusion that is answer to the rest. And in that
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lesson one I eight, what is addressed is the impulsibility
of injury. And what is addressed is the impulsibility of injury.
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And I think it's the The other one is condemnation.
Injury and condemnation are both impossible. There are both illusions.
And the great thing about Lession one ninety eight is
that it says that illusions make illusions. The idea of
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an illusion, it's interesting earh okay and the Q. The
question is what is an illusion?
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What is it?
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And there's a sentence that I read the other day.
It's in chapter sixteen. It says, illusion is a belief
in something that is not there. It's something that you
believe is there but it's not. That's what an illusion is.
We talk about this because we're a courser miracle students
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and courser miracles teachers, and we t eat the illusions
as something that is something we have the truth and
the illusion, and the truth is an illusion is an
illusion because it's a belief in something that is not there.
It's not something you cannot say, well, that's an illusion. No,
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it's an illusion because you believe in it. You believe
that it's true, and the truth is it is not.
But okay, well, I'm just elaborating a little bit, you know,
because it's good to think about these things, because to
recognize and we're going to read, uh, what is forgiveness
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when it says when he says, forgiveness is for an
illusion that is answered to the rest, It is not
answering something that is true. It is not something that
there is There is nothing to forgive. It is not
that there is something that needs to be forgiven for
you to It is an illusion. Forgiveness is an illusion.
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M let me see if I can bring this in. Yeah, so, yeah,
I don't. I I'm I'm l I'm losing my train
of thought here. But I wanted to say this as
an a introduction, uh, because.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah it it it's uh, okay, let's let's
just read this through.
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And we'll we'll, i'll, I'll come back to it. What
is forgiveness? Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did
to you has not occurred. It does no part in
sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin,
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and in that view, are all your sins forgiven? What
is sin except the false idea about God's son. Forgiveness
merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. Well,
then is free to take the pl its place is
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now the will of God? And okay, maybe there's one
thing I would say about it. Of course, of course,
Americas is filled with the idea that you're doing this
to yourself, that this that there is really nothing being
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done to you. Injury. As I just said, injury is impossible.
Condemnation is impulsible, but illusions produce illusions. Why is that
because you? That's what it says in eight. If you
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think that you can condemn, the right to condemn is
also how did you say it? I have to go
I have to go back to this for a second.
If you don't mind, it says here injuries impulsible, and
yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn, you can
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be injured, for you have believed that you can injure,
and the right you have established, and the right you
have established for yourself can now be used against you.
This is the mechanism of the singularity of your mind.
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You think that if you say, oh, It's all an illusion.
But the illusion is not something static. It produces effects.
Illusion makes illusion, it makes another illusion. If you believe
in something that is not true, it you you have
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believed that you can injure, and the right you have
established for yourself can now be used against you. This
is what occurs. So if you attack, or if you
feel attacked, or if something happens to you, you think, well,
that's done to me, and you talk about it as
if you're being hurt and if the world is doing
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all this stuff to you. What you don't recognize is
that injury is not possible. Why because you cannot sin,
You cannot, you cannot condemn, and the right and it
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because you believe that you can. The right that you
have established for yourself can now be used against you.
This is why you're doing everything to yourself. And that
shift in responsibility where you say, okay, this is not
done to me, I am doing this, I have done this. Uh,
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what is the what is the the miracle thing? Uh?
Reflects the simple statement I have done this thing, and
it is this I would undo When we say you
need to accept begin to accept responsibility for your own thoughts.
This is why It's not just because we want you
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to be guilty for what you think. It is because
we want you to begin to recognize that the power that.
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You actually have and are, because you are what as
God created you, that's the truth of you, is not
a sort of a sort of nice spiritual thing to say.
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You are as God created you. And when you come
into this frame of reference, you may say, Okay, I
have forgotten for a moment who I was, But now
we have this course of miracles and you're going to remember.
And part of that remembering is that you are beginning
to recognize, Holy I am responsible for everything I see.
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I'm belaboring this because in these sort of the ideas,
the whole thing comes together and the purpose of a
course of miracles begins to make more sense to you.
It's just it's not just a spiritual book that has
nice ideas that you can play around with. It offers
you an entirety of the possibility of experience where forgiveness
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really becomes something that you want to perform, where you
really begin to see I am I'm not forgiving someone else.
I'm forgiving myself for what didn't happen. I was the
one who thought I could be attacked, I cannot be attacked.
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I have established the right to be attacked by attacking
someone else or thinking that what did he say? Injuries impossible?
And yet illusion makes illusion, and forgiveness now becomes answer
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to the rest, not because there is something to forgive,
but only because you were wrong about what happened to
you and what you did to someone else. And this
is what the forgiveness of. This is what he says
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here in the first and I'm going to read the
whole thing. I won't say anything more. This is where
you see that it begins to make sense that in
this view, all your sins are forgiven. Okay, listen. Forgiveness
recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has
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not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real.
It sees there was no sin, and in that view
are all your sins forgiven because you were the cause
of them. What is sin except the false idea about
God's son. Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets
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it go. What then is free to take its place
is now the will of God, an unforgiving thought. And
you can rest assured that's every thought you think you have.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that
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it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true.
The mind is closed and will not be released. The
thought protects projection, tightening its chains so that distortions are
more veiled and more obscure, less easily accessible to doubt,
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and further kept from reason. What can come between a
fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as
it's wanted goal. An unforgiving thought does many things in
frantic action. It pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what
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it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is
its poor purpose and the means by which it would
accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts
to smash reality without concern for anything that would appear
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to pose a contradiction to its point of view. Forgiveness,
on the other hand, is still and quietly does nothing.
It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist
it two appearances it likes. It doesn't have to do that.
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It can just stay where it is. It doesn't have
to defend itself. It doesn't have to judge anything it
is illusion that its answer to the rest. It doesn't
have to twist the two appearances it likes. It merely
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looks and waits and judges. Not he who would not
forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive.
But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome
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truth exactly as it is. Right now, I seem to
be talking to you all the time because you're the
new guy in the room. Thank you. The other ones
already know all this. So do you. But do nothing then,
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and let forgiveness show you what to do. Do nothing, then,
forgiveness show you what to do. Through him who is
your guide, your savior and protector, strong in hope, and
certain of your ultimate success, He has forgiven you already,
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for such is his function given him by God. Now
must you share his function and forgive whom he has saved,
whose sinlessness he sees, and whom he honors as the
son of God. And so will take a moment to
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reflect on this, as we have been instructed to do.
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So. But at.
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Okay, so maybe it becomes valuable to you that we
just read that He has forgiven you already, that you
have forgiven that you have been forgiven and that you
can now share this forgiveness with everything around you, and
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that you can begin to really experience the truth of yourself,
because this is what this course is aiming at. At
some point we just have to stop dealing with the
with illusions or whatever thinks that we believe are true.
But that experience will come as you perform this act
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of forgiveness, and as you contemplate this idea of what
is forgiveness more and more in the next ten days,
it will begin to have more and more meaning for you.
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Most of us have you known, have memorized part of
this lesson by heart just to be able to you know,
let it sink in more and more. That's not a
bad idea. You cannot hear enough that forgiveness recognizes what
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you thought your brother did to you has not occurred,
and to really think about why that is true. Lessen
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two twenty one. Peace to my mind, Let all my
thoughts be still. Father. I come to you today to
seek the peace that you alone can give. I come
in silence, in the quiet of my heart, the deep
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recesses of my mind. I wait and listen for your voice,
My Father, speak to me today I come to hear
your voice in silence and uncertainty and love. Sure you
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will hear my call and answer me. And now do
we wait in quiet? God is here Because we wait together.
I am sure that he will speak to you, and
you will hear. Accept my confidence, for it is yours
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our minds have joined. We wait with one intent to
hear our father's answer to our call, to let our
thoughts be still and find his peace, to hear him
speak to us of what we are, and to reveal
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himself unto his son, peace to my mind, that all
my thoughts be still. Amen.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Sho sh sh sh.
Speaker 8 (46:53):
All right we go. We have still a few minutes
to go before the video. And UH may read uh,
And I need to read from a little bit from
one thirty four. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Okay,
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let me proceed forgiveness as it is one four. Let
us review the meaning of forgive, for it is apt
to be distorted and to be perceived as something that
entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified
and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In
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such a view, forgiveness must be seen as merely eccentric folly,
and this course appeared to rest salvation on the This
twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily corrected when
you accept the fact that pardon is not asked for
what is true. It must be limited to what is false.
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This is what we were talking about. You're not forgiving anything.
It's an illusion that is answer to the rest of
all the illusions of everything that you believe to be true.
But it is not there. It must be limited to
what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions.
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Truth is God's creation, and to pardon that is meaningless.
Old truth belongs to him, reflects his laws, and radiates
his love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive
the sinless and heally benign? The major difficulty that you
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find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you
still believe you missed. You must forgive the truth. This
is an important notion when you when you think of forgiveness,
you are very quick to think that there is really
something happening and that you need to forgive that. So
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now you're forgiving your mother or your your your husband
or whatever. And that's how you get caught in what
forgiveness is not and it's actually and as you will
say here, it is actually not without effects. If you
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do that, you conceive of pardon as a vain attempt
to look past what is there, to overlook the truth,
to overlook what is act, what you thought happened, and
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that you could you call that forgiveness in an unfounded
effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This
is how you make an illusion true. You believe that
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what is not there is true. This twisted viewpoint but
reflects the hold that the idea of sin retains as
yet upon your mind as you regard yourself, and see
again here this has only to do with you. It
doesn't have anything to do with someone else. That the
idea of sin is still holding and has an idea
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that there's that it's possible that something is being done
to you, or that you are able to do something
else to someone else. Because you think your sins are real.
You think your sins are real. You look on pardon
as deception, for it is impossible to think of sin
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as true and not believe forgiveness is a lie. Thus
is forgiveness really better sin? Like all the rest. It
says the truth is false and smalls smiles on the corrupt,
as if they were blameless as the grass, as white
as snow. It is delusional in what it thinks it
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can accomplish. It would see as right, the plainly wrong,
the loathsome as the good. And if you don't only
have to look in the world. Everybody talks about forgiveness,
and that's the only way they can look at it
is Okay, I've overlooked something. This terrible thing has happened
to me. But I'm overlooking it. I'm forgetting about it.
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That's not what forgiveness is. Pardon is no escape in
such a view, it merely is a further sign that
sin is unforgivable at best. To be concealed, denied, or
called another name for pardon is a treachery to truth.
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This is a great idea, pardoning someone saying, oh, you
did that to me, and now I'm pardoning you. It's
a treachery to truth. When there is guilt, he says
it here. When there's guilt, it cannot be forgiven. If
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you sin, yours guilt is ever lasting. And how about
the guys who are forgiven? From the view their sins
are real, are pitifully mocked and twice condemned, first by
themselves for what they think they did, and once again
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by those who pardon them. So it's really a very
vicious act. It is sins unreality that makes forgiveness natural
and holy, sane, a deep relief to those who offer it,
a quiet blessing where it is received. It doesn't countenance illusions,
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but collects them lightly, with a little laugh, and gently
lays them at the feet of truth. And there they
disappear entirely. Okay, And then there's this sentence, and I
will wrap this up. Forgiveness is the only thing that
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sens stands for truth in the illusions of the world.
It's the only thing that stands for truth in the
illusions of the world. Okay, this last paragraph. It sees
their nothingness and looks straight through the thousand forms in
(54:17):
which they may appear. It looks on lies, but it
is not deceived. It does not heed the self accusing
shrieks of sinners mad with guilt. It looks on them
with quiet eyes and merely says to them, my brother,
what you think is not the truth. Okay, you may
(54:40):
read this lesson further if you want. It's really good.
There's a great practice here, and so forgiveness is not
pardoning something that happened that has nothing to do with it.
All right, I want to thank everybody again and you
(55:03):
guys here, we're gonna watch the video of the massive
teacher in a second. And I love you all and
hope to see you again at this on this incredible channel,
you have been.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Listening to Voice from Heaven live in the Miracle Healing Center.
Speaker 2 (55:28):
Remember that God's voice speaks to you.
Speaker 5 (55:31):
All through the day, that God goes with you wherever
you go, and that God is the mind with which
you think.
Speaker 1 (55:40):
God bless us everyone,
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