From: <BBFBBN@...>
To: <Disappearance_of_the_Universe@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Disappearance_of_the_Universe] Re: A + P used to mean
something
In a message dated 7/15/2003 11:15:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cracker.jack@... writes:
There are many more statements in ACIM that affirm God as Creator of the
world/Universe than statements that speak of the ego's illusionary world.
Why people still ignore this
simple fact I just don't know.
The Ego is doing a very good job. People still think that God created
anything of form .. amazing.
Excuse me? Who is proclaiming that God created anything of 'form'?
Where is form here:
"Finally I turned my eyes to the pine-covered hills behind the monastery and
still, there was no division, only something "there" that was flowing with
and through every vista and particular object of vision. To see the Oneness
of everything is like having special 3D glasses put before your eyes; I
thought to myself: for sure, this is what they mean when they say "God is
everywhere." (Bernadette Roberts)
And where is form here:
"W-184.1. You live by symbols. 2 You have made up names for everything you
see. 3 Each one becomes a separate entity, identified by its own name. 4 By
this you carve it out of unity. 5 By this you designate its special
attributes, and set it off from other things by emphasizing space
surrounding it. 6 This space you lay between all things to which you give a
different name; all happenings in terms of place and time; all bodies which
are greeted by a name."
"W-184.2. This space you see as setting off all things from one another is
the means by which the world's perception is achieved. 2 You see something
where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space
between all things, between all things and you. 3 Thus do you think that you
have given life in separation. 4 By this split you think you are established
as a unity which functions with an independent will."
"W-184.15. Father, our Name is Yours. 2 In It we are united with all living
things, and You Who are their one Creator. 3 What we made and call by many
different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own
reality. 4 And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. 5 All our mistakes we
give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to
have. 6 And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. 7
Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. 8 Your Name unites
us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. 9 Amen."
To give form is to "carve out of unity". The Course says God's Creation is
One, as those who have testified to Enlightenment completely agree.
~
Stephen
