Lesson 360 Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
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Lesson 360
Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son,
forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and
undisturbed within me. I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for
nowhere else can certainty be found. Peace be to me, and peace to all the world.
In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to
You in perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say "Amen."
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Commentary on this lesson is by Kenneth Wapnick, from his books: "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles." Book set may be purchased at the
following site:
~ M. Street.
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Lesson 360
"Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us."
*This lesson is a lovely rendering of the oneness of God's Son.*
(1:1) "Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You."
*If I am enamored of my personal self -- the self that is founded on conflict --
I will continually try to attack peace and withhold it from myself and everyone
else. Yet when the pain becomes too great, we gladly choose the Atonement that
alone washes away all pain and restores God's peace to our grateful awareness.*
(1:2) "I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain
forever still and undisturbed within me."
*This is the only place in the workbook where Jesus uses the phrase <Great
Rays>. These are nothing visual or perceptual, nor are they associated in any
way with the rays of light of which other metaphysical systems speak. As used in
A Course in Miracles, the term is a symbol for the Light of Christ that is our
true Self. God, then, would be the "Sun" -- the Source -- and we the emanations
or extensions -- the Rays -- of that Light. In the text, Jesus speaks of the
little spark of the Great Ray that exists in all of us -- the memory of that
great Light, held for us in our right minds by the Holy Spirit, and found fully
present in all the seeming fragments of the Sonship:
"In many only the spark remains, for the Great Rays are obscured. Yet God
has kept the spark alive so that the Rays can never be completely forgotten. If
you but see the little spark you will learn of the greater light, for the Rays
are there unseen.... But the spark is still as pure as the great light, because
it is the remaining call of creation. Put all your faith in it, and God Himself
will answer you." (T.10.IV.8.1-3,6-7)*
(1:3) "I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can
certainty be found."
*I reach for the spark of that Great Ray in everyone, in recognition of our
inherent oneness as God's Son. Jesus encourages us to ask for help to perceive
the Light of Christ -- instead of the darkness of the ego -- shining in
everyone. By "hearing" the ego's silence in our brothers, we hear the Holy
Spirit's Voice answering our prayers for peace with His certainty -- the reality
of God's one Son, in whom we put our faith:
"If you would know your prayers are answered, never doubt a Son of God. Do
not question him and do not confound him, for your faith in him is your faith in
yourself." (T-9.II.4:1-2)*
(1:4-7) "Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. In holiness were we
created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to You in perfect
sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say "Amen."
*Again, we are all one, and if I wish to remember my Oneness as Christ, I cannot
exclude any of God's Sons from the vision of holiness -- nor would I want to,
knowing its tremendous cost to me of losing my Self.*
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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