Lesson 326. I am forever an Effect of God.
Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. I
am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You created
me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your
attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause
that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect
of God, and so I have the power to create like You. And as it is in Heaven, so
on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather
Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and
all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.
Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven,
fade entirely into God's holy Will.
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be purchased at the
following site: ~ M. Street
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Lesson 326. "I am forever an Effect of God."
*This lesson is also important in establishing Who we are as the Effect of God's
Love. It restates the Atonement principle that nothing has changed -- none of
our sad or sinful dreams has changed the fact that we remain at one with our
Source.*
(1:1-5) "Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its
home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. As You
created me I have remained. Where You established me I still abide. And all Your
attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause
that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable."
*We have never left our Father's Mind, because <ideas leave not their source>.
We recognize that the ego's thought system was a mistake, and thus choose to
remember the Thought that created us and which shares it attributes of
changelessness, formlessness, love, and eternal life:
"Now is the Son of God at last aware of present Cause and Its benign
effects. ... His Cause is Its effects. There never was a cause beside it that
could generate a different past or future. Its effects are changelessly eternal,
beyond fear, and past the world of sin entirely." (T-28.I.14.1,5-7)*
(1:6-7) "Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to
create like You. And as it is in Heaven, so on earth."
*In Heaven, God extends His Love -- the meaning of creation -- establishing us
as His Son. He is thus our Cause and we His Effect, creating as He created --
the circle of creation:
"Thus, the Son gives Fatherhood to his Creator, and receives the gift that
he has given Him. It is because he is God's Son that he must also be a father,
who creates as God created him. The circle of creation has no end. ... in itself
it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end."
(T-28.II.1.4-6,8)*
(1:8) "Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your
effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all
separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God."
*Again, God does not literally have a plan, which is really the Holy Spirit's
Atonement, reflecting His Love. Still an illusion, yet does the Atonement not
oppose the truth, as other illusions do. At the journey's end, God gathers His
Effects in the last step that follows the Second Coming and Last Judgment. In
other words, the separated Sons rejoin as one, as God lifts him unto Himself,
reuniting the Son with the Source He never left.*
(2) "Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then,
forgiven, fade entirely into God's holy Will."
*This is the process: We remain in the world, but look differently -- forgiving
it and ourselves -- and then all disappears as the Will of God ascends in the
Son's healed and holy mind. And he is home, where God would have him be.
(T-31.VIII.12:8).*
