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Lesson 67. Love created me like itself.

 

Lesson 67. Love created me like itself.

(1) Today's idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. This is
why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the world's
savior. This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. He is saved
by what you are. We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you,
and to realize fully, if only for a moment, that it is the truth.

(2) In the longer practice period, we will think about your reality and its
wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature. We will begin by repeating this truth
about you, and then spend a few minutes adding some relevant thoughts, such as:

Holiness created me holy.
Kindness created me kind.
Helpfulness created me helpful.
Perfection created me perfect.<

Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate
for use. We are trying today to undo your definition of God and
replace it with His Own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of
His definition of Himself.

(3) After you have gone over several such related thoughts, try to let all
thoughts drop away for a brief preparatory interval, and then try to reach past
all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love
created you like itself, this Self must be in you. And somewhere in your mind It
is there for you to find.

(4) You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to
replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient, and
that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about
yourself. Yet perhaps you will succeed in going past that, and through the
interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you
recognize yourself as love created you. Be confident that you will do much today
to bring that awareness nearer, whether you feel you have succeeded or not.

(5) It will be particularly helpful today to practice the idea for the day as
often as you can. You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as
possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images. Four or
five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind
yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth about yourself in
this.

(6) Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny,
solitary voice that tells you this. This is the Voice for God, reminding you of
your Father and of your Self. This is the Voice of truth, replacing everything
that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of
God. You were created by love like itself.




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The commentary on this lesson (below) is from Kenneth Wapnick's eight volume
series of books, called: "Journey Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles,"
which can be purchased at the following site:??~ M. Street

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Lesson 67. "Love created me like itself."

(1:1-5) "Today's idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. This
is why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the
world's savior. This is why the Son of God looks to you for his salvation. He is
saved by what you are."

*The Son of God is saved by <what> I am because the Son of God <is> what I am.
If I am a creation of love, the entire Sonship must be a creation of love
because love is one. Thus when we remember Who we truly are, we are remembering
for all. You may recall the motto of Dumas' three musketeers: <One for all and
all for one.>*

(1:6) We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you, and to
realize fully, if only for a moment, that it is the truth."

*The long-range goal of A Course in Miracles is that we become aware of this
truth all the time, not just for a moment. Jesus therefore says to us: "I am
willing to accept as our goal for today that we have at least <one> moment of
remembering that you are love." We would then understand he is reflecting back
to us that this is a process of <gradually> accepting the truth, as we
<gradually> reject the illusion by correcting the ego's substitution of a
self-concept of guilt and fear for the memory that we are created by love like
itself.*

(2:1-7) "In the longer practice period, we will think about your reality and its
wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature. We will begin by repeating this truth
about you, and then spend a few minutes adding some relevant thoughts, such as:

Holiness created me holy.
Kindness created me kind.
Helpfulness created me helpful.
Perfection created me perfect.

Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate
for use."

*Jesus is emphasizing what is true about us, a truth to which we are always
asked to bring the illusion. Clearly, Jesus knows that we do not believe this
about ourselves. If we did, we would not be needing the workbook, and certainly
not A Course in Miracles itself. Thus he seeks to reinforce the memory he holds
for us in our right minds. However, lest we forget we have another side, which
is the problem, he reminds us of the journey on which he is leading us, as we
now read:*

(2:8) "We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with
His Own."

*Jesus explains that truth is in us, and continually reminds us of its nature;
but he also reminds us that the means of remembering truth is to undo what we
made as its replacement. Thus, our ego's God is a dualistic deity, which means
that His creation -- us -- must be dualistic, too: good perhaps, but also evil:
sometimes innocent, but guilty as well. When brought to Jesus definition, the
ego's deity is replaced by the non-dualistic God of innocence and Love.*

(2:9) "We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of
Himself."

*Jesus goes back and forth between these two self concepts, because we do. Our
fear impels us to hide in the ego's thought system of separation: while the pain
of such a choice motivates us to return home. We vacillate between fear and love
until we finally accept the Atonement for ourselves, at which point all teaching
ends as we disappear into the love that created us like itself.*

(3:1-2) "After you have gone over several such related thoughts, try to let all
thoughts drop away for a brief preparatory interval, and then try to reach past
all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love
created you like itself, this Self must be in you."

*We have seen this idea often. Before we can remember who we truly are, we must
first allow ourselves to get in touch with who the ego tells us we are. The path
thus takes us through the illusions of darkness to the light of truth. As we
shall see presently, Jesus describes himself as our guide on this journey
through the ego's clouds of illusion.*

(3:3) "And somewhere in your mind It is there for you to find."

*That truth, namely the Love of God, "is there for [us] to find." Once again,
the way we reach the truth is first to reach past our "images and perceptions,"
which we cannot do until we know what they are. That is why in our daily
practice of the lessons, let alone our practice of the lessons, let alone our
practice of the Course's principles -- in all situations and relationships --
we must continually be vigilant for what our egos are up to. We need not worry
about what Jesus is up to; we need be concerned only for our egos. If we can
look at them with Jesus, our investment in being right will decrease, allowing
truth to become increasingly important to us. In other words, we shall finally
have <sought> for what we truly want to <find>. And seeking for it, we shall be
successful, since "it is there for [us] to find." *

(4) "You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to
replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient, and
that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about
yourself. Yet perhaps you will succeed in going past that, and through the
interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you
recognize yourself as love created you. Be confident that you will do much today
to bring that awareness nearer, whether you feel you have succeeded or not."

*It is important to note, once again, that instructions such as these should not
be compared to what is referred to in some New Age circles as "affirmations" --
the positive statements we are asked to recite that end up as covers for our
ego's negative thoughts, thereby making it impossible for them to be undone.
<Undoing>, as described in A Course in Miracles, means <looking> at the ego
first, as the prerequisite for the process to the light. Thus, from time to
time, as he does here, Jesus reminds us of the light to which we bring the
darkness of our "thoughtlessness," which consists of the ego's attempts to
distract us with thoughts that are not real. Yet, to repeat, one cannot regain
awareness of the blazing light of our real thoughts without first recognizing
our identification with the unreal (or thought-less) ones.

Jesus concludes this paragraph by expressing his confidence in our willingness
to undergo this process with him, even though our resistance to such progress
will most likely still be present.*

(5:1-2) "It will be particularly helpful today to practice the idea for the day
as often as you can. You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as
possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images."

*In this one sentence we find a wonderful juxtaposition of both halves of our
split minds, and the basic theme of A Course in Miracles: We must realize how
preoccupied we are with our false self images or self-concepts. These might
include: I am right; I am holy because I am right; I am an individual; I am
special; I know what is in my best interests. We must become aware of our
preoccupation with these self-images, otherwise we will never know there is
something we can choose between. Jesus therefore tells us, in the workbook
especially: "I will remind you frequently of who you really are, so you can see
you have a choice between the glorious Self of Christ and the shabby one you
made as a replacement." It is our awareness of the ability to choose between two
mutually exclusive self-concepts that allows us in the end to make the choice
that <is> the end. Bringing us to this awareness is the function of the
miracle.*

(5:3-4) "Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most
beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth
about yourself in this."

*Jesus is upping the ante here. He wants us to think about the day's lesson as
often as possible, up to four or five times an hour; i.e., every twelve or
fifteen minutes. Jesus does not truly expect us to be so focused on the truth.
After all, we ran away from it into the illusory world of time and space just so
we would be distracted from the timeless truth of Heaven. Nonetheless, he does
want us to make the effort, which, if we attempt it faithfully, will make us
aware of how much we do not want to remember. Such insight into our resistance,
as we have seen and will see repeatedly, is extraordinarily useful on our
journey. We cannot correct a problem we do not know we have, and are so
resistant to letting go.*

(6) "Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny,
solitary voice that tells you this. This is the Voice for God, reminding you of
your Father and of your Self. This is the Voice of truth, replacing everything
that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of
God. You were created by love like itself."

*The Holy Spirit cannot replace my ego with His truth unless I bring the ego
thought system to Him. That is why, to say it again -- <and again and again> --
be ever vigilant for your ego as you go through these lessons. Ask Jesus to join
you there, so that with his light you can shine away the darkness, and thereby
remember who you are: created by love like itself.*




Love and Blessings,

Lyn Johnson
719-369-1822

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