To Remember God Is To Remember Freedom

[Miracles Are Seen In Light]

"In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom, you will
remember God. For remembering Him is to remember freedom."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
- Paul the Apostle, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Holy Bible, New Testament


"I can teach you, but only you can choose to listen to my teaching. How else can
it be, if God's Kingdom is freedom? Freedom cannot be learned by tyranny of any
kind, and the perfect equality of all God's Sons cannot be recognized through the
dominion of one mind over another. God's Sons are equal in will, all being the
Will of their Father. This is the only lesson I came to teach."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


"Freedom is the only gift you can offer to God's Sons, being an acknowledgment of
what they are and what he is. Freedom is creation, because it is love. Whom you
seek to imprison you do not love. Therefore, when you seek to imprison anyone,
including yourself, you do not love him and you cannot identify with him. When
you imprison yourself you are losing sight of your true identification with me and
with the Father. Your identification is with the Father and with the Son. It
cannot be with One and not the Other. If you are part of One you must be part of
the Other, because They are One. The Holy Trinity is holy because It is One. If
you exclude yourself from this union, you are perceiving the Holy Trinity as
separated. You must be included in It, because It is everything. Unless you take
your place in It and fulfill your function as part of It, the Holy Trinity is as
bereft as you are. No part of It can be imprisoned if Its truth is to be known."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, Section 4


"How long is an instant? As long as it takes to re-establish perfect sanity,
perfect peace and perfect love for everyone, for God and for yourself. As long as
it takes to remember immortality, and your immortal creations who share it with
you. As long as it takes to exchange hell for Heaven. Long enough to transcend
all of the ego's making, and ascend unto your Father."

"How long is an instant? It is as short for your brother as it is for you.
Practice giving this blessed instant of freedom to all who are enslaved by time,
and thus make time their friend for them."

"The Holy Spirit gives their blessed instant to you through your giving it. As
you give it, He offers it to you. Be not unwilling to give what you would receive
of Him, for you join with Him in giving. In the crystal cleanness of the release
you give is your instantaneous escape from guilt. You must be holy if you offer
holiness."

"The instant of holiness is shared, and cannot be yours alone....
Miracles are the instants of release you offer, and will receive. They attest to
your willingness to be released..."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1


"There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was
given you. And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and
follow it. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do. And
you will lay aside the world and find another. This other world is bright with
love which you have given it. And here will everything remind you of your Father
and his holy Son. Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.
All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in
gratitude because they brought you here. Your light will join with theirs in
power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on
them."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section 6 (7pdf)

"Christ's vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you
safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness.
Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly
seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond
them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 159


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[Miracles Are Seen In Light]

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
- Jesus Christ, John 8:32, Holy Bible, New Testament, NKJV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A32&version=NKJV

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ACIM IS A CROCK OF CRAP


The so-called ACIM is a crock of crap,
fruitless verbiage, spewed by Satan
himself, to try to draw people away
from GOD's word The Holy Bible which
teaches and preaches that there IS a
fallen angel called Satan, and there IS a
hell prepared for Satan and his angels /
messengers both celestial and human,
and there IS law and sin IS breaking law -
all the things that ACIM say do not exist.

And I have already proven what crock of crap
the so-called ACIM IS in these previous reply
posts of mine:

Gary Renard and judgement
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/Xuk26E6oOZA

ACIM - Fatal Flaw
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/9z1b5r7TYSQ

God *Is*
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/PbVmthshCbo

All Talents Belong To All Of God's Children
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/otny4ntUl7E

Sin vs. Error
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/TS1uEIcp0Ug

The Perfect Messiah
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/NKE8Wy9ib9o

The Name Of God
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/xb2Df2m_1_w

Thanksgiving Bible Selections
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.religion.course-miracle/G7te-e9q9PY

[Miracles Are Seen In Light]

"There is no escape from fear in the ego's use of time. For time, according to
its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it
becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this *now*. Fear is not of the present, but
only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present
when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow
reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in
which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present
extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing
but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

This lesson takes no time. For what is time without a past and future? It has
taken time to misguide you so completely, but it takes no time at all to be what
you are. Begin to practice the Holy Spirit's use of time as a teaching aid to
happiness and peace. Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is
of time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are
completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From this
holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without
fear, and with no sense of change with time.

Time is inconceivable without change, yet holiness does not change. Learn from
this instant more than merely that hell does not exist. In this redeeming instant
lies Heaven. And Heaven will not change, for the birth into the holy present is
salvation from change. Change is an illusion, taught by those who cannot see
themselves as guiltless. There is no change in Heaven because there is no change
in God. In the holy instant, in which you see yourself as bright with freedom,
you will remember God. For remembering Him *is* to remember freedom."

- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 1

[Miracles Are Seen In Light]

"As the ego would limit your perception of your brothers to the body, so would the
Holy Spirit release your vision and let you see the Great Rays shining from them,
so unlimited that they reach to God. It is this shift to vision that is
accomplished in the holy instant. Yet it is needful for you to learn just what
this shift entails, so you will become willing to make it permanent. Given this
willingness it will not leave you, for it is permanent. Once you have accepted it
as the only perception you want, it is translated into knowledge by the part that
God Himself plays in the Atonement, for it is the only step in it He understands.
Therefore, in this there will be no delay when you are ready for it. God is ready
now, but you are not.

Our task is but to continue, as fast as possible, the necessary process of looking
straight at all the interference and seeing it exactly as it is. For it is
impossible to recognize as wholly without gratification what you think you want.
The body is the symbol of the ego, as the ego is the symbol of the separation. And
both are nothing more than attempts to limit communication, and thereby to make it
impossible. For communication must be unlimited in order to have meaning, and
deprived of meaning, it will not satisfy you completely. Yet it remains the only
means by which you can establish real relationships, which have no limits, having
been established by God.

In the holy instant, where the Great Rays replace the body in awareness, the
recognition of relationships without limits is given you. But in order to see
this, it is necessary to give up every use the ego has for the body, and to accept
the fact that the ego has no purpose you would share with it. For the ego would
limit everyone to a body for its own purposes, and while you think it has a
purpose, you will choose to utilize the means by which it tries to turn its
purpose into accomplishment. This will never be accomplished. Yet you have
surely recognized that the ego, whose goals are altogether unattainable, will
strive for them with all its might, and will do so with the strength that you have
given it.

It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego,
and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was
given you. Love would *always* give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego,
and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a
brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from
it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it
not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need
only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.

If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the
need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the
attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain
willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are
complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is
impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the
body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits
the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.

You have no conception of the limits you have placed on your perception, and no
idea of all the loveliness that you could see. But this you must remember; the
attraction of guilt opposes the attraction of God. His attraction for you remains
unlimited, but because your power, being His, is as great as His, you can turn
away from love. What you invest in guilt you withdraw from God. And your sight
grows weak and dim and limited, for you have attempted to separate the Father from
the Son, and limit their communication. Seek not Atonement in further separation.
And limit not your vision of God's Son to what interferes with his release, and
what the Holy Spirit must undo to set him free. For his belief in limits has
imprisoned him.

When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means
of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your
thoughts will be as free as God's. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to
use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for
separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of
a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only
the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join him wholly, in an
instant. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could
ever want. All truth is here."

- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 15, Section 9