Lesson 88. Today we will review these ideas:
1.(75) The light has come.
In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is
already there. Salvation is a decision made already. Attack and grievances are
not there to choose. That is why I always choose between truth and illusion;
between what is there and what is not. The light has come. I can but choose the
light, for it has no alternative. It has replaced the darkness, and the darkness
has gone.
These would prove useful forms for specific applications of this idea:
This cannot show me darkness, for the light has come.
The light in you is all that I would see, [name].
I would see in this only what is there.
3.(76) I am under no laws but God's.
Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God's. I am
constantly tempted to make up other laws and give them power over me. I suffer
only because of my belief in them. They have no real effect on me at all. I am
perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God's. And His are the laws of
freedom.
For specific forms in applying this idea, these would be useful:
My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.
I see only the laws of God at work in this.
Let me allow God's laws to work in this, and not my own.
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The commentary on this lesson 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 88. Today we will review these ideas:
(1:1)(75) "The light has come."
*The light has come because the light has always been in our minds. This is
reflected in the first sentence.*
(1:2) "In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize
what is already there."
*That is why "the light has come." The light of the Atonement is in our minds,
but when we choose it we experience it as coming to us. In truth, however, we
have come to it. We left the light when we chose the ego's darkness, and now we
have returned. Coming to the light is salvation, just as leaving it constituted
the first attack, mirrored in the specific attacks within our lives that are
merely the shadowy fragments of the original thought.*
(2:2-4) "This cannot show me darkness, for the light has come."
"The light in you is all that I would see, [name]."
"I would see in this only what is there."
*Confronted by the ego's perceptions of specialness -- the darkened world of
guilt, judgment, hate, punishment, and fear -- we go quickly to Jesus that we
may see the situation differently. His vision -- <all> people calling for love
or expressing it; <all> people sharing in the ego's insanity of hate and the
Holy Spirit's sanity of forgiveness -- reflects Heaven's light. This light, born
of our inherent sameness as God's Son, we now wish to see in others, for it is
what we wish to see in ourselves.*
(4:2-4) "My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist."
"I see only the laws of God at work in this."
"Let me allow God's laws to work in this, and not my own."
*Whatever we perceive outside shows us that we believe in the ego's "laws that
do not exist." Our daily practice, therefore, consists of first looking at the
world through the ego's eyes of special and separate interests, the reflection
of its fundamental law of separation. Recognizing this false perception allows
me, next, to ask my new Teacher to teach me its correction. And so the Holy
Spirit gently instructs me in the practicing of forgiveness, the reflection on
earth of God's law of love. Regardless of the situation I am in, regardless of
the pain (or pleasure) afforded me in a relationship, I can see God's laws
reflected by seeing the opportunity to learn how separate interests lead to
hell, while shared purpose leads to the Heaven I never truly left -- the Home of
God's laws of love and life.*
