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JESUS ~ SANANDA TEACHINGS FROM ACIM

Please note here that I thought it would be appropriate to insert some of 'Jesus' teaching from the book ;A Course in Miracles, I have taken them out of context in one or more sentence form's. I hope this will assist you in understanding a bit of what the message is that he is trying to get us to learn. But it would be best if you read it in context yourself in the ACIM book. Please bear with me in this attempt, there is much to learn just from this small presentation, thanks.

Jesus says ; (ACIM lession199#2); The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love. It rests in God. And who can be afraid who lives in innocence, and only loves?

(Chapter 13.IV #6) The shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape. They are not real, and have no hold over you. They carry the spots of pain in your mind, directing you to attack in the present in retaliation for a past that is no more. And this decision is one of future pain. Unless you learn that pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and loosing many opportunities you could find for release in the present. The ego would preserve your nightmares, and prevent you from awaking and understanding they are past.

(#7) It is evident that the Holy Spirit’s perception of time is the exact opposite of the egos. The reason is equally clear, for they perceive the goal of time as diametrically opposed. The Holy Spirit interprets time’s purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary. He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only his teaching function, which is temporary by definition. His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers. It is the reality of “now” without past or future that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies. For only “now” is here. And only “now” presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.

(#9) You too will interpret the function of time as you interpret yours (salvation). If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasize only the aspect of time in which healing can occur? Healing cannot be accomplished in the past. It must be accomplished in the present to release the future. This interpretation ties the future to the present, and “extends the present” rather than the past. But if you interpret your function as destruction, you will lose sight of the present and hold on to the past to ensure a destructive future . And time will be as you interpret it, for of itself it is nothing.

Chapter V (#10); You have but two emotions, and one you made (evil) and one was given you (love). Each is a way of seeing, and different worlds arise from their different sights. See through the vision that is given you, for through Christ’s vision He beholds himself. And seeing what He is He knows His Father. Beyond your darkest dreams He sees Gods guiltless son within you.

#11 The Holy Spirit is the light in which Christ stands revealed. And all who would behold him can see him, for they have asked for light.

Chapter VI (#1) To perceive truly is to be aware of all reality through the awareness of your own. But for this no illusions can arise to meet your sight, for reality leaves no room for any error. This means that you perceive a brother as you see him now.

#2 For the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of the light.

#3 This darkness is in you. The Christ as revealed to you “now” has no past, for He is changeless, and in his changelessness, lays your release. To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. The cloud that obscures Gods son to you is the past, and if you would have it past and gone, you must not see it now. If you see it now in your illusions, it is not gone from you, although it is not there.

(#4) Time can release as well as imprison, depending on whose interpretation of it you use. Past, present and Future are not continuous, unless you would force continuity on them. You would anticipate the future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it accordingly. Yet by doing so you are aligning past and future, and not allowing the miracle, which could intervene between them, to free you to be born again.

(# 5) Let no dark cloud of the past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there. Your past was made in anger, and if you use it to attack the present, you will not see the freedom the present holds.

(#6) Judgments and condemnation are behind you, and unless you bring them with you, you will see that you are free of them. Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true. All healing lies within it because its continuity is real.

(#7) The present offers you your brothers in the light that would unite you with them, and free you from the past. In this one, “still dimension of time” that does not change, and where there is no sight of what you were, you look at Christ and call his witnesses to shine on you because you called them forth.

(#8) Now is the time of salvation, for now is the release from time. Reach out to all your brothers, and touch them with the touch of Christ.

(#9) Shine on your brothers in remembrance of your Creator, for you will remember Him as you call forth the witnesses to His creation. And in Him you are answered by His peace.

(#10) Child of Light, you know not that the light is in you. Each one you see in light brings your light closer to your awareness. Love always leads to love.

(#11) There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was given you. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do.

(#12) Awaking to Christ is following the laws of love of your free will, and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them. The attraction of light must draw you willingly, and willingness is signified by giving.

(#13) And yet the laws of love are not suspended because you sleep. Even in sleep has Christ protected you, ensuring the real world for you when you awake? And although he slept, Christ’s vision did not leave him. And so it is that he can call unto himself the witnesses that teach him that he never slept.